SOME LOSS PREVENTION CASE-HISTORIES

Authors
Citation
Ta. Kletz, SOME LOSS PREVENTION CASE-HISTORIES, Process safety progress, 14(4), 1995, pp. 271-275
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Chemical
Journal title
ISSN journal
10668527
Volume
14
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
271 - 275
Database
ISI
SICI code
1066-8527(1995)14:4<271:SLPC>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We learn more from accounts of accidents than from codes and standards or exhortations to follow them. Incident reports are more likely to s pur us into action. We are unlikely to read a code until an accident r eport has shown us the need. This paper describes a number of accident s, some old, some recent, which can teach us lessons of general intere st It looks at the underlying causes as well as the immediate technica l ones.