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A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
dc.contributor Stephanopoulos, George
dc.contributor Leveson, Nancy G.
dc.contributor Stephanopoulos, George
dc.creator Leveson, Nancy G.
dc.creator Stephanopoulos, George
dc.date 2014-12-18T16:07:07Z
dc.date 2014-12-18T16:07:07Z
dc.date 2013-11
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:10:09Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:10:09Z
dc.identifier 0001-1541
dc.identifier 1547-5905
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92371
dc.identifier 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.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6294-8890
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0478-3116
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/279009
dc.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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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Wiley Blackwell
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.14278
dc.relation AIChE Journal
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.source Prof. Stephanopoulos via Erja Kajosalo
dc.title A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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