Lessons from Disaster
How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur
- 1st Edition - May 3, 1993
- Latest edition
- Author: Trevor Kletz
- Language: English
It is by avoiding accidents that the process industries will improve their public image. Lessons from Disaster focuses upon the apparent inability of organizations to learn, and… Read more
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It is by avoiding accidents that the process industries will improve their public image. Lessons from Disaster focuses upon the apparent inability of organizations to learn, and retain in long-term, the lessons drawn from accidents.Incidents of a similar type continue to occur within companies repeatedly. Trevor Kletz illustrates this with detailed cases, which form a gold mine of experience and advice for every engineer. He offers, with his customary vision and imagination, his own advice on how to improve the corporate memory.
Introduction; Organizations Have No Memory; Accidents of the Coming Year; Some Other Failures to Learn from the Past; Why Are We Publishing Fewer Accident Reports?; What are the Causes of Change and Innovation in Safety?; The Management of Safety; An Anthology of Accidents; Changes in Safety - A Personal View; Improving the Corporate Memory
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: May 3, 1993
- Language: English
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Trevor Kletz
Trevor Kletz, OBE, D.Sc., F.Eng. (1922-2013), was a process safety consultant, and published more than a hundred papers and nine books on loss prevention and process safety, including most recently Lessons From Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur and Computer Control and Human Error. He worked thirty-eight years with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., where he served as a production manager and safety adviser in the petrochemical division, also holding membership in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, England. He most recently served as senior visiting research fellow at Loughborough University, and adjunct professor at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University.
Affiliations and expertise
Process Safety Consultant, UK