Chapter 26. Changes in Organization
This chapter is based in part on a paper presented at the Hazards XVII Conference held in Manchester, United Kingdom, in March 2003, and is included with the permission of the Institute of Chemical Engineers.
The best of systems is no substitute for experience, or for seeing and listening and sniffing for yourself.—Financial News, Daily Telegraph (London), February 16, 2002
The explosion at Flixborough, United Kingdom, in 1974 drew the attention of the oil and chemical industries to the need to control changes to plants and processes. Many publications (see Chapter 25) have both described accidents that occurred because no one foresaw the results of such changes and suggested ways of preventing such accidents ...
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