Fire incident at a refinery in West Malaysia: The causes and lessons learned

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 297-303

  Shaluf, Ibrahim M ^a   Ahmadun, Fakhrul Razi ^a   Said, Aini Mat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Accident; Causes; Fire; Lessons learned; Major hazard installation; Refinery

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; EXPLOSIONS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; LEAK DETECTION; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

HAZARD INSTALLATIONS;

FIRE HAZARDS;

ACCIDENT; FIRE; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; REFINING INDUSTRY;

(WEST); MALAYSIA;

EID: 0037741450     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-4230(03)00021-4     Document Type: Article

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