Multi-plant safety and security management in thechemical and process industries

This book develops recommendations and guidelines for a multiple-plant safetyand security culture. The text serves as a guide to elaborating and determining the principles, assumptions, strengths, limitations and application areas of multiple-plant chemical safety and security management. The book offers guidelines, procedures, frameworks and technology for creating a safety and security culture in a cluster of chemical companies. The presentation is conceptually rather than mathematically oriented to maximize the application 'in the field', i.e., in the chemical industry. The aim of the book therefore surpasses the intended support of safety and security awareness and offers easy-to-use information for actually setting up a multipleplant safety and security culture. The conceptualization of such aggregated safety and security learning and integrated safety and security knowledge is set to become one of the main challenges of future safety management optimization, as well as security management improvement in the chemical industry. Elaborating the notion of cross-company safety and security management requires a number of components that have to be thoroughly evaluated and efficiently managed, especially for highly diversifiedand complex surroundings.Genserik Reniers received his PhD in Applied Economic Sciences from the University of Antwerp, after completing a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He lectures in general chemistry, organic chemistry, chemical process technology, industrial processes and thermodynamicsat the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is also visiting professor Risk Management at the Institute of Transport and Maritime Management in Antwerp. At the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Professor Reniers lectures in prevention management, advanced occupational health and safety management and chemical processes/unit operations. His main research interests concern the collaboration and interaction between safety and security topics and socio-economic optimization within the chemical industry. He coordinates the Antwerp Research Group on Safety and Security (ARGoSS), unifying multi-disciplinary safetyand security research at the University of Antwerp. He has extensive experience in leading research projects funded both by the Belgian government and the chemical industry. He is a Fellow of the International Congress of Disaster Management, Member of the Society for Risk Analysis and the Royal Flemish Society for Engineers and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries.

• ISBN: 978-3-527-32551-1
• Editorial: Wiley-VCH
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 290
• Fecha Publicación: 14/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés