A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety
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 that they were preventable and had similar systemic causes (Kletz, 2003). Why do we fail to learn from the past and make a...
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| author | Leveson, Nancy G. Stephanopoulos, George |
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| description | 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 that they were preventable and had similar systemic causes (Kletz, 2003). Why do we fail to learn from the past and make adequate changes to prevent their reappearance? A variety of explanations have been offered; operators' faults, component failures, lax supervision of operations, poor maintenance, etc. All of these explanations, and many others, have been exhaustively studied, analyzed, “systematized” into causal groups, and a variety of approaches have been developed to address them. Even so, they still occur with significant numbers of fatalities and injured people, with significant disruption of productive operations and frequently extensive destruction of the surrounding environment, both physical and social. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/923712022-09-23T12:02:52Z A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety Leveson, Nancy G. Stephanopoulos, George Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Stephanopoulos, George Leveson, Nancy G. Stephanopoulos, George 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 that they were preventable and had similar systemic causes (Kletz, 2003). Why do we fail to learn from the past and make adequate changes to prevent their reappearance? A variety of explanations have been offered; operators' faults, component failures, lax supervision of operations, poor maintenance, etc. All of these explanations, and many others, have been exhaustively studied, analyzed, “systematized” into causal groups, and a variety of approaches have been developed to address them. Even so, they still occur with significant numbers of fatalities and injured people, with significant disruption of productive operations and frequently extensive destruction of the surrounding environment, both physical and social. 2014-12-18T16:07:07Z 2014-12-18T16:07:07Z 2013-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0001-1541 1547-5905 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92371 Leveson, Nancy G. and George Stephanopoulos. "A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety." AiChE Journal Volume 60, Issue 1, January 2014. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6294-8890 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0478-3116 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.14278 AIChE Journal Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Wiley Blackwell Prof. Stephanopoulos via Erja Kajosalo |
| spellingShingle | Leveson, Nancy G. Stephanopoulos, George A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety |
| title | A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety |
| title_full | A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety |
| title_fullStr | A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety |
| title_full_unstemmed | A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety |
| title_short | A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety |
| title_sort | system theoretic control inspired view and approach to process safety |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92371 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6294-8890 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0478-3116 |
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