Trevor Kletz
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Trevor Kletz OBE (born 1922, Darlington). A prolific British author on the topic of chemical engineering safety, he was credited with introducing the concept of inherent safety, and a major promoter of Hazop. Graduated in chemistry from University of Liverpool in 1944 and joined ICI the same year. When he retired in 1982 he had established a safety culture within the company based on communication, and an international reputation as an author and speaker. Most of his books are concerned with case studies from industry and the human and technical causes. His autobiography is called “By accident – a life preventing them in industry”.
[edit] Books (sole author)
- Improving Chemical Engineering Practices: A New Look at Old Myths of the Chemical Industry (1989) Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0-89116-929-6;
- Critical Aspects of Safety and Loss Prevention (1990) Butterworths;
- Plant Design for Safety – a user-friendly approach (1991) Taylor & Francis;
- Lessons from Disaster - How Organisations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur(1993) IChemE ISBN 0-85295-307-0;
- Learning from Accidents (1994/2001) Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN 0-7506-4883-X;
- Dispelling Chemical Engineering Myths (1996) Taylor & Francis, ISBN 1-56032-438-4;
- Process Plants – a handbook for inherently safer design (1998) Taylor & Francis;
- What Went Wrong? Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters(1998) Gulf, ISBN 0-88415-920-5;
- Hazop and Hazan 4th ed (1999) Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0-85295-421-2;
- By Accident… a Life Preventing them in industry (2000) PFV, ISBN 0-9538440-0-5;
- An Engineer’s View of Human Error (2001) IChemE, ISBN 0-85295-430-1;
- Still Going Wrong: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided (2003) Gulf, ISBN 0-7506-7709-0
[edit] Books (joint author)
- Computer Control and Human Error, Trevor Kletz, Paul Chung, Eamon Broomfield and Chaim Shen-Orr (1995) IChemE, ISBN 0-85295-362-3;
[edit] External link
- [1] Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center
