Techniques for assessing industrial hazards : a manual.

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The manual provides guidelines for the identification of the potential hazards of new or existing plants or processes in the chemical and energy industries, and for the assessment of the consequences of the release of toxic, flammable or explosive materials to the atmosphere. It presents a structured, and simplified approach for identifying the most serious potential hazards and for calculating their effect distances or damage ranges. It is the intention that by presenting a simplified approach, the manual should be amenable to use by engineers and scientists with little or no experience of hazard analysis. Further analysis with a view to mitigation of the hazards identified may be appropriate in many cases; at this stage it may be necessary to seek the advice of a specialist. The basic procedure in the hazard analysis is; identify potential failures, calculate release quantities for each failure, and calculate the impact of each release on people and property. For large plants this can become highly complex, and therefore a simplified method is presented