- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing; 3 edition (Aug 28 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 075064883X
- ISBN-13: 978-0750648837
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 699 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #465,122 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'By analysing accidents that have occurred, Trevor Kletz shows how we can learn from them and thus be better able to prevent them happening again....this book is a must for all maintenance, production and process engineers, design engineers, safety engineers and all those interested in safety and accident prevention.'
Chemical Industry Digest. Mar/Apr 2002
"Trevor Kletz's book makes an invaluable contribution to the systematic, professional and scientific approach to accident investigation". The Chemical Engineer
"I would recommend this book for all those with responsibility for health and safety".
Chemistry and Industry
"Trevor Kletz's excellent publication...the text is written in a style which is easy to understand, assimilate and put into practice". Health and Safety Focus Sep 1994
Chemical Industry Digest. Mar/Apr 2002
"Trevor Kletz's book makes an invaluable contribution to the systematic, professional and scientific approach to accident investigation". The Chemical Engineer
"I would recommend this book for all those with responsibility for health and safety".
Chemistry and Industry
"Trevor Kletz's excellent publication...the text is written in a style which is easy to understand, assimilate and put into practice". Health and Safety Focus Sep 1994
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Review of previous edition:
"Trevor Kletz's book makes an invaluable contribution to the systematic, professional and scientific approach to accident investigation". The Chemical Engineer
Fully revised and updated, the third edition of Learning from Accidents provides more information on accident investigation, including coverage of accidents involving liquefied gases, building collapse and other incidents that have occurred because faults were invisible (e.g. underground pipelines).
By analysing accidents that have occurred Trevor Kletz shows how we can learn and thus be better able to prevent accidents happening again. Looking at a wide range of incidents, covering the process industries, nuclear industry and transportation, he analyses each accident in a practical and non-theoretical fashion and summarises each with a chain of events showing the prevention and mitigation which could have occurred at every stage.
At all times Learning from Accidents, 3rd Edition emphasises cause and prevention rather than human interest or cleaning up the mess. Anyone involved in accident investigation and reporting of whatever sort and all those who work in industry, whether in design, operations or loss prevention will find this book full of invaluable guidance and advice.
Completely up-dated.
Shows, by analysing accidents that have occurred, how we can learn from them, and prevent the same accidents happening again.
"Trevor Kletz's book makes an invaluable contribution to the systematic, professional and scientific approach to accident investigation". The Chemical Engineer
Fully revised and updated, the third edition of Learning from Accidents provides more information on accident investigation, including coverage of accidents involving liquefied gases, building collapse and other incidents that have occurred because faults were invisible (e.g. underground pipelines).
By analysing accidents that have occurred Trevor Kletz shows how we can learn and thus be better able to prevent accidents happening again. Looking at a wide range of incidents, covering the process industries, nuclear industry and transportation, he analyses each accident in a practical and non-theoretical fashion and summarises each with a chain of events showing the prevention and mitigation which could have occurred at every stage.
At all times Learning from Accidents, 3rd Edition emphasises cause and prevention rather than human interest or cleaning up the mess. Anyone involved in accident investigation and reporting of whatever sort and all those who work in industry, whether in design, operations or loss prevention will find this book full of invaluable guidance and advice.
Completely up-dated.
Shows, by analysing accidents that have occurred, how we can learn from them, and prevent the same accidents happening again.
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In the same way, when we look at an accident, we may see technical oversights, hazards that were not seen before or management failings; what we see depends on the way we look. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
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Involved in safety?You should read T.A.Kletz!, Oct 21 2006
By Didier Bizzari "Didier Bizzarri" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Learning from Accidents (Hardcover)
[previously : Didier Bizzarri (D.Bizzarri@ulg.ac.be) (Liège, Belgium, Europe)]I am surprised to see so few reviews for T.A.Kletz books.
If you are dealing with potentially hazardous installations or systems, and not only if you are an engineer, you should read some Kletz. Allways hinging his books around his very message, T.A.Kletz constantly gives interesting practical examples and fine advice, from his 40 years own experience. He 'dismounts' accidents, their causes, superficial and underlying down to the detail. He shows the different aspects of human/organisational responsibility in accidents and their prevention. After going through one of his books, "human error" never reads the same again. In "Learning from Accidents", he does follow that methodology for about ten famous accidents, various generic accidents and many incidents. He shows how major accidents come out of sequences of minor defficiencies and are helped by sleeping faults, poor management, poor procedures, poor incident reporting,... poor design... and poor remembrance of previous accidents/incidents.
If we don't learn from our mistakes, why bother making them?
;)
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