Inherent occupational health assessment during basic engineering stage

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 260-268

  Hassim, Mimi H ^a,b   Hurme, Markku ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Inherent safety; Piping and instrumentation diagrams; Process design; Process development; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; DATA AVAILABILITY; DESIGN STAGE; EARLY EVALUATION; HEALTH ASSESSMENTS; HYDRODEALKYLATION; INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT; INHERENT SAFETY; INSTRUMENTATION DIAGRAMS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RISK; PIPING AND INSTRUMENTATION DIAGRAMS; SEPARATION SYSTEMS; SPECIFIC DESIGN; WORK-RELATED;

ACCIDENTS; AVAILABILITY; DESIGN; GRAPHIC METHODS; HEALTH; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INSTRUMENTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PROCESS DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; TOLUENE;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 75849142346     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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