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Tools for Making Acute Risk Decisions: With Chemical Process Safety Applications
Author(s): CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety) (Author)
- Publisher: Wiley-AIChE
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 1994
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 496 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780816905577
- ISBN-13: 0816905576
Book Description
The complexity of today’s risk decisions is well known. Beyond cost and risk there are many other factors contributing to these decisions, including type of risk (such as human injury or fatality), the economic impact on the local community, profitability, availability of capital, alternatives for reducing or eliminating the risk, costs of implementing alternatives, codes, standards, regulation, and good industry practice. This book presents a large range of decision aids for risk analysts and decision makers in industry so that vital decisions can be made in a more consistent, logical, and rigorous manner. Though primarily aimed at the process industry, this book can be used by anyone who makes similar decisions in other industries, including those in management science.
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About the Author
The CENTER FOR CHEMICAL PROCESS SAFETY (CCPS), an industry technology alliance of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), has been a world leader in developing and disseminatinginformation on process safety management and technology since 1985. CCPS has published over 80 books in its process safety guidelines and process safety concepts series. For more information, visit www.ccpsonline.org.
