System Safety Engineering And Risk
Assessment: A Practical Approach
(Chemical Engineering) by Nicholas J
Bahr
Illuminating Systems Safety Overview
Here is a comprehensive, practical guide to how to build safety into
products and industrial processes. It discusses how to implement a cost-
effective safety management program, and the best system safety
techniques from a range of different industries, with examples. It also
demonstrates how to set up data management systems and how to set up
an accident investigation board, and carry out risk assessment and risk
evaluation. Numerous examples of real-life engineering are also included
with practical tips and suggestions.

Personal Review: System Safety Engineering And Risk
Assessment: A Practical Approach (Chemical Engineering) by
Nicholas J Bahr
In this book, Nicholas Bahr has taken the complex discipline of systems
safety and made it accessible in a logical, useful format. The book is clear
and well illustrated (although a couple of the charts are a bit cumbersome
and unwieldy), and calls upon numerous case studies to illustrate key
points. There are separate chapters of Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree
Analysis, Safety Analysis in Engineering, and Safety Management. While
useful for engineers (particularly in the chemical processing or nuclear
fields), this book is written in comprehensible terms that do not require an
engineering background or technical education to understand. In fact, I
believe that the biggest beneficiaries of this book are not engineers at all,
but non-technical managers, who desperately need to understand safety
systems, but often don't. In fact the chapter on Safety Management should
be required reading for any manager in a safety critical environment, as it
is an excellent "how to" guide to safety management of complex systems.
This chapter has examples of correct safety management, and more
importantly, excellent examples of the perils of management unwillingness
to prioritize safety. The case study of the Nypro UK cyclohexane plant
explosion in Flixborough, England is the best detailed, and has universal
applications to safety systems across varying industries. The loss of the
shuttle 'Challenger' is also reviewed from a systems safety vantage point,
but while there are many errors to be analyzed and learned from there,
more of the lessons are industry specific than are the lessons from the
Flixborough example.I used this book in a graduate class on systems
safety. This is one of the best safety books I have seen, and is the most
concise text on systems safety that I have ever read, far better, for
instance, than the works of Perrow. Mr. Bahr is to be commended for his
work; I look forward to reading more by him in the future.
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