Written by the author of "What Went Wrong?" and "An Engineer's View of Human Error", this book examines some of the unforeseen incidents which have occurred in computer-controlled systems, and suggests how such incidents can be made less likely in the future. The text includes how HAZOP studies can be used to detect hazards in computer-controlled systems.

Author Biography

Trevor Kletz, OBE, D.Sc., F.Eng. (1922-2013), was a process safety consultant, and published more than a hundred papers and nine books on loss prevention and process safety, including most recently Lessons From Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur and Computer Control and Human Error. He worked thirty-eight years with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., where he served as a production manager and safety adviser in the petrochemical division, also holding membership in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, England. He most recently served as senior visiting research fellow at Loughborough University, and adjunct professor at the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University.