Layer of Protection Analysis: Simplified Process Risk Assessment

by Center for Chemical Process Safety

Book Overview

Layer of Protection Analysis: Simplified Process Risk Assessment

Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) is a recently developed, simplified method of risk assessment that provides the much-needed middle ground between a qualitative process hazard analysis and a traditional, expensive quantitative risk analysis. Beginning with an identified accident scenario, LOPA uses simplifying rules to evaluate initiating event frequency, independent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816908117
• ISBN13: 9780816908110
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Wiley-Aiche
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"