The construction industry is plagued by occupational risky situations and poor working
conditions. Occupational risk assessment (ORA) on workplace sites is the first and key step …

Hazard and operability (HAZOP) methodology is a Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)
technique used worldwide for studying not only the hazards of a system, but also its …

Occupational safety risk assessment is the core of safety practices. Is a complex process that
requires the consideration of sundry parameters, which are often difficult to quantify. This …

Hazard identification is the first and most crucial step in any risk assessment. Since the late
1960s it has been done in a systematic manner using hazard and operability studies …

Hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP) is a remarkable representative in industrial safety
engineering. However, a great storehouse of industrial safety knowledge (ISK) in HAZOP …

Along with the expansion of China's chemical industry, a series of catastrophic chemical
accidents have occurred, often with severe human casualties, resulting in adverse effects on …

Although modern chemical processes are highly automatic, abnormal situation management
(ASM) still heavily relies on human operators. Process fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) …

Objective Which theories, models, and metaphors were developed in the period and
countries under study, within what context, and if available based upon what collection of …

Accidents in the process industry continue to occur, and we do not seem to be making much
progress in reducing them (Venkatasubramanian, 2011). Postmortem analysis has indicated …

A HAZOP methodology is presented where a functional plant model assists in a goal
oriented decomposition of the plant purpose into the means of achieving the purpose. This …