Recommended Reading

1. Safety Shutdown Systems: Design, Analysis and Justification, 2nd edition , Gruhn & Cheddie, ISA, 2006, ISBN 1-55617-665-1

2. Inviting Disaster - Lessons from the edge of Technology,  James R. Chiles, Harper Business, ISBN 0-06-662081-3, 2001. Click here to read a book summary by Paul Gruhn

3. Out of Control, Why control systems go wrong and how to prevent failure, Health & Safety Executive (UK), 1995, ISBN 0-7176-0847-6,
Phone 011-441-787-881-165, Fax 011-441-787-313-995)

4. Computer Control and Human Error, Trevor A. Kletz, ISBN 0-88415-269-3, Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, TX, 1986, Phone 1-800-231-6275

5. What Went Wrong? Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters, Trevor A. Kletz, ISBN 0-88415-027-5, Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, TX, 1986, Phone 1-800-231-6275

6. An Engineer's View Of Human Error, Trevor A. Kletz, The Institute of Chemical Engineers (Warwickshire, England), 1985, ISBN 0 85295 192 2

7. Lessons From Disaster - How organizations have no memory and accidents recur, Trevor A. Kletz, Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, TX, 1993,
ISBN 0-88415-154-9

8. Safeware - System Safety and Computers, Nancy G. Leveson, Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0-201-11972-2

9. Process Safety Management, Ian Sutton, Southwestern Books, 1997, ISBN 1-57502-528-0, Phone; 281-488-7767, Web; http://www.southwestern-books.com

10. Safety-Critical Computer Systems, Neil Storey, Addison-Wesley, 1996,
ISBN 0-201-42787-7

11. Computer Related Risks, Peter G. Neumann, Addison-Wesley, 1995,
ISBN 0-201-55805-X

12. Evaluating Control System Reliability, William M. Goble, International Society for Measurement and Control, 1992, ISBN 1-55617-128-5, Phone (919) 549-8411

13. Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, AIChE CCPS, 1992,
ISBN 0-8169-0491-X, Phone 800-242-4363

14. Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis, AIChE CCPS, 1989, ISBN 0-8169-0402-2, Phone 800-242-4363

15. Risk Analysis for Process Plants, Pipelines and Transport, J.R. Taylor, E&FN Spon, 1994, ISBN 0-419-19090-2

          16. Major Industrial Hazards, Their Appraisal and Control, John Withers, Halsted Press, 1988, ISBN 0-470-21-67-2

17. Human Reliability & Safety Analysis Data Handbook, D.I. Gertman & H.S. Blackman, Wiley-Interscience, 1994, ISBN 0-471-59110-6

18. Safety Instrumented Systems - Practical Probabilistic Calculations, William M. Goble & Harry Cheddie, ISA, 2005, ISBN 978-1-55617-909-9

19. Safety Integrity Level Selection -- Systematic Methods Including Layer of Protection Analysis , Edward M. Marszal, P.E., Dr. Eric W. Scharpf, MIPENZ, ISA, 2002, ISBN 978-1-55617-777-4

Updated by Brian Smith on December 29, 2008.