The following article from the IEC magazine introduces the first edition of this book:

https://etech.iec.ch/issue/2017-06/improving-safety-and-reliability-in-process-industry-plants

Developing a process safety and reliability program for a process industry plant faces a lot of challenges. This led to the spread of common defects and even mistakes in these programs. In addition, the availability of too many engineering, operation and maintenance standards and practices, that were not developed to be aligned, contributed to inconsistency in many programs developed.

This book aims at discussing the elements of process safety and reliability programs for the process industry plants (chemical, petrochemical, oil, gas, power generation, mining and nuclear power plants). Moreover, it aims at discussing the common imperfections and challenges that such programs have in the plants built till nowadays. Furthermore, it aims at recommending better practices to be followed in developing these programs and each element they include. It aims also at providing insights on cost and its balance with safety and reliability specially that at the time of writing this book the oil price dropped significantly, which occurred also more than once over the history of the oil industry.