
Inherently Safer Design
- 1st Edition, Volume 7 - July 12, 2023
- Latest edition
- Editors: Faisal Irshad Khan, Paul Amyotte, Mohammad Alauddin
- Language: English
Inherently Safer Design, Volume Seven in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in chemical engineering, with interesting chapters that provide an Introduction to Inhere… Read more

- Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
- Presents the latest release in the Inherently Safer Design series
- Updated release includes the latest information on the Methods in Chemical Process Safety
Engineering practitioners as well as researchers working in process design, safety, and sustainability domains
1. Introduction to Inherently Safer Design (ISD)
Faisal Khan, Paul Amyotte, and Mohammad Alauddin
2. ISD Fundamentals
Paul Amyotte, Faisal Khan, Md Alauddin
3. History of ISD
David Edwards
4. ISD Life Cycle Considerations
Mahmoud El-Halwagi
5. ISD Indices
Raj Srinivasan
6. ISD and Human Factors
Mimi Hassim
7. Conceptual and Practical Applications of ISD
Genserik Reniers
8. Challenges to ISD Application
Valerio Cozzani
9. ISD Regulatory Requirements
Howard Pike
10. ISD Case Studies
Syed Tauseef and Tasneem Abbassi
11. Risk-based ISD
Jinqui Hu
12. ISD and Digitalization
Jihao Shi
13. ISD and Inherently Safer Operation (ISO)
Azmi Mohd Shariff and Muhammad Athar
14. Future of ISD
Paul Amyotte, Faisal Khan, Md Alauddin
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 7
- Published: July 12, 2023
- Language: English
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Faisal Irshad Khan
Faisal I. Khan is a Chemical Engineering Professor and Director of the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center and the Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI), Texas A&M University. He is the founder of the Centre for Risk Integrity and Safety Engineering (C-RISE), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering. His areas of research interest include offshore safety and risk engineering, inherent safety, risk management, and risk-based integrity assessment and management. Dr. Khan is actively involved with multinational oil and gas industries in addressing safety and asset integrity issues. He also served as the Safety and Risk Advisor to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He continues to serve as a subject matter expert to many organizations, including Lloyd's Register EMEA, SBM Modco, Intecsea, Technip, and Qatar Gas. He served as a Visiting Professor of Offshore and Marine Engineering at the Australian Maritime College (AMC), University of Tasmania, Australia, where he led the development of the offshore safety and risk engineering group and initiated global engagements with numerous international institutions.
Dr. Khan is the recipient of the President's Outstanding Research Award of 2012–13 at Memorial University, the President's Outstanding Research Supervision Award of 2013–14 at Memorial University, the CSChE National Award on Process Safety Management of 2014, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers award for his contribution to Health, Safety, and Risk Engineering. He has authored over 500 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences on safety, risk, and reliability engineering. He has authored five books on the subject area. He is the Editor of the Journal of Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Safety in Extreme Environment, and ASME Part A (Risk and Uncertainty Analysis). He regularly offers training programs/workshops on safety and risk engineering in various locations, including St. John's, Chennai, Dubai, Beijing, Aberdeen, Cape Town, Doha, and Kuala Lumpur.
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Paul Amyotte
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