Health, Safety, and Accident Prevention: Industrial Applications
A Self-Instructional Problem Workbook

Louis Theodore, Joseph Reynolds and Kevin Morris
Manhattan College, Riverdale NY

Published by ETS Professional Training Institute
© 1996 Louis Theodore. 314 pages. ISBN 1-882767-18-7.

Table of Contents

Basic Operations
Conversion of Units · Weight Fraction, Mole Fraction, and Average Molecular Weight · Pressure
Terms · Ideal Gas Law · Discharge Velocity · Reynolds Number · Stoichiometry · Required Heat
Rate · Gross Heating Value · Henry's Law · Chemical Reaction Equilibrium · Chemical Kinetics · Molecular Diffusion · Decision Trees · Flow Diagram

Problems
Introduction Problems
Accidents at Home · History of Accidents · Community Emergency Planning · Shipping Yard
Hazards · Hazard and Health Risk Assessment

Toxicology Problems
Definitions · Toxicology Factors · Exposure Guidelines · Threshold Limit Values · IDLH and Lethal Level for a Gas · Dose-Response · Chemical Exposure in a Laboratory · Vapor Cloud Emission · Qualitative Health Risk Assessment · FAR Concept

Plant and Related Hazards
Flammability Limits and Ignition Delay Time · Fluid Flow Ventilation · Safety Equipment · Rupture Disks and Relief Valves · Explosion and Fire Hazards · Noise Control · Mass Transfer · Thermodynamics · Hazard Operability Study

Dispersion Problems
Emission Rates (Empirical) · Emission Rates (Semi-Theoretical) · Water Systems · Atmospheric Plume Rise · Atmospheric Dispersion Coefficients · Pasquill-Gifford Model · Line Sources · Area Sources · Instantaneous "Puff" Model · Instantaneous "Puff" Sources

Probability and Statistics
Principles · Problems · Conditional Probability · Bayes' Theorem · Probability Distribution
Function · Series and Parallel Systems · Binomial Distribution · Weibull Distribution · Normal Distribution · Monte Carlo Simulation · Event Tree Analysis · Fault Tree Analysis

Design-Oriented Application Problems
Quantitative Risk Assessment for a Chemical Facility · Cost Effectiveness Analysis for an Accidental Toxic Chemical Release · Lifetime Individual Risk Assessment/Characterization · Greenhouse Effect · Accidental/Emergency Discharge into a Lake/Reservoir

Solutions
Solutions to Introduction Problems
Solutions to Toxicology Problems
Solutions to Plant and Related Hazards Problems
Solutions to Dispersion Problems
Solutions to Probability and Statistics Principles Problems
Solutions to Design-Oriented Application Problems

Appendices
Error Function (Probability Integral) Table
Dispersion Coefficients
Standard Normal Cumulative Probability Table
SI Units

Index