"This book provides a comprehensive treatment of investing chemical processing incidents. It presents on-the-job information, techniques, and examples that support successful investigations. Issues related to identification and classification of incidents (including near misses), notifications and initial response, assignment of an investigation team, preservation and control of an incident scene, collecting and documenting evidence, interviewing witnesses, determining what happened, identifying root causes, developing recommendations, effectively implementing recommendation, communicating investigation findings, and improving the investigation process are addressed in the third edition. While the focus of the book is investigating process safety incidents the methodologies, tools, and techniques described can also be applied when investigating other types of events such as reliability, quality, occupational health, and safety incidents"-- Provided by publisher.

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Overview of Chemical Process Incident Causation -- An Overview of Investigation Methodologies -- Designing an Incident Investigation Management System -- Initial Notification, Classification and Investigation of Process Safety Incidents -- Building and Leading an Incident Investigation Team -- Witness Management -- Evidence Identification, Collection and Management -- Evidence Analysis and Causal Factor Determination -- Determining Root Causes-Structured Approaches -- The Impact of Human Factors -- Developing Effective Recommendations -- Preparing the Final Report -- Implementing Recommendations -- Continuous Improvement for the Incident Investigation System -- Lessons Learned.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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