A system-theoretic, control-inspired view and approach to process safety

Accidents in the process industry continue to occur, and we do not seem to be making much progress in reducing them (Venkatasubramanian, 2011). Postmortem analysis has indicated that they were preventable and had similar systemic causes (Kletz, 2003). Why do we fail to learn from the past and make a...

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Main Authors: Leveson, Nancy G. (Contributor), Stephanopoulos, George (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley Blackwell, 2014-12-18T16:07:07Z.
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