High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries

JR (Jim) Thomson, BSc(Eng), PhD, CEng, FIET, FIMechE, FNucI is an independent consultant, www.safetyinengineering.com, specializing in high integrity systems and safety management. He has worked in plant operations management, engineering management and safety management, and has previously held executive director posts in two international safety consultancies. He has been chair of two international conferences on high-integrity safety systems, and was awarded the Nuclear Institute’s Pinkerton Prize 2013

Part 1: High integrity safety instrumented systems1. Introduction2. Design of high integrity instrumentation and control (I&C) systems:a. Design for high reliabilityb. Common mode failure and I&C architecturec. Selection of logic elementsd. Setting up a high integrity software project3. The second industrial revolution – the evolution of the computer4. Cyber security5. The human-machine interface6. Managing the safety of ageing I&C equipmentPart 2: Pressure vessels7. Learning from ignorance – a brief history of pressure vessel integrity and failuresPart 3: Safety management8. Introduction and safety culture9. Management systems failures10. The human factor11. Refineries12. Offshore oil production: Piper Alpha and the Cullen Report13. BP14. Chernobyl and Fukushima15. Safety management and safety justification in hazardous industriesEpilogue