Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, Third Edition

Index

ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology), 643

Absolute sound scale, exposure to noise, 89

Accelerating Rate Calorimeter (ARC), 392–394, 397

Acceptable risk

determining, 12–14

determining using QRA or LOPA, 577–578

public perceptions of, 14–15

Accident and loss statistics

basing on FAR, 7

basing on OSHA incident rates, 5–7

for common activities, 9–10

data for, 8–9

determining safety expenditures, 11–12

expansion of total loss figures, 11

overview of, 4–5

property damage and loss of production in, 11

in various industries, 8

workplace fatalities, 12–13

Accident pyramid, 11

Accidents

defeating process of, 19–20

defined, 21

investigating, 603–604

nature of process, 15–18

root causes of deaths from, 12–13

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