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What is Chemical Industry

Chapter 7
Safety and Security Issues in Technical Infrastructures
Chemical industry is one of important and biggest industrial sector which produce chemicals in a complex manufacturing process.
Published in Chapter:
Effects of Human Factors in Process Safety: Analyses of Chemical Industrial Case Studies
Gargi Bhattacharjee (University of Calcutta, India & Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Mahavidyalaya, India) and Sudip Kumar Das (University of Calcutta, India)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 30
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3059-7.ch007
Abstract
Accidents and near-miss accidents in chemical industries are widespread. Most of the incidents occurred due to combinations of organizational and human factors. To identify the causes for an incident of an accident analysis is needed, because it reveals the possible causes behind the accidents. Accident analysis shows the human and organizational factors that support learning from the events. Literature review shows that human error plays an important role of accidents in process industries. The chapter discusses some case studies which are received very little media publicity and also no proper assessment. At first reports on the incidents were collected from newspapers and then the place was visited to conduct an interview with local people and present and past workers with the help of the PESO (M/S Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organization, Eastern Region, Govt. of India).
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