Inherent risk assessment methodology in preliminary design stage: A case study for toxic release

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 605-613

  Shariff, Azmi Mohd ^a   Zaini, Dzulkarnain ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Inherent risk; Inherent safety; Inherently safer design; Risk assessment; Risk matrix

Indexed keywords

INHERENT RISK; INHERENT SAFETY; INHERENTLY SAFER; INHERENTLY SAFER DESIGN; INHERENTLY SAFER PROCESS; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; PROCESS DESIGNERS; RISK MATRIX;

DATA TRANSFER; DESIGN; PROCESS DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 84877003528     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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