PART Ⅰ SAFETY ENGINEERING THEORIES 1
1 Why Do We Need Safety Engineering? 3
2 A Brief History of Safety 6
3 The Make-up of an Accident 9
4 What Is a Hazard and Related Important Concepts 12
5 The System Safety Process 14
6 Hazard Reduction Precedence 20
7 The Use of Standards in Safety 25
8 Safety Analysis in the Manufacturing Industry 33
9 Safety Analysis in the Chemical Process Industry 36
10 Safety Analysis in Aerospace,Military and the Nuclear Power Industry 38
11 Safety Analysis in the Mass Transit Industry 41
12 Safety in the System Life Cycle 44
13 Organizational Management and Safety 47
14 A Closed-loop Process 54
15 Office Building Safety and Health 58
PART Ⅱ ACCIDENT CASES 71
16 Two Simple Incidents 73
17 The Flixborough Explosion 84
18 Protective System Failure 90
19 Poor Procedures and Poor Management 100
20 A Liquid Leak and Fire and the Hazards of Amateurism 110
21 A Tank Explosion—The Hazards of Optional Extras 119
22 Sevesp 131
23 Bhopal 139
24 Chernobyl 153
25 Invisible Hazards 166
26 Signals Passed at Danger 172
27 Piper Alpha 183
Glossary 197