Chapter 23. Maintenance
People should have to take a class on this information before they receive their undergraduate degrees in engineering. Nobody really tells us this stuff.—A message from a chemical engineering student who found What Went Wrong? in a library
The longest chapter in Part A is Chapter 1, Preparation for Maintenance. This is still the source of many accidents, and more are described in the following pages. They have been chosen to emphasize that the need for good practice and its enforcement is as great as ever and to draw attention to features not discussed in Part A.
23.1. Inadequate Preparation on a Distant Plant
This accident occurred in a large, responsible international company but in a distant plant many thousands ...
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