What Went Wrong?: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided

About Paul AmyotteTrevor Kletz

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 OConnor Process Safety Center Texas A&M University. Paul Amyotte is a Distinguished Research Professor and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Dalhousie University (Halifax Canada). He is a chemical engineering graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada (Bachelors) Queens University (Masters) the Technical University of Nova Scotia (PhD) and a registered professional engineer in Nova Scotia. Dr. Amyotte is a member and past president of Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering a member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers a Fellow of Chemical Institute of Canada the Engineering Institute of Canada Canadian Academy of Engineering Engineers Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Amyotte has an extensive record of authorship with six books several book chapters and over 350 papers published in peer-reviewed journals or presented at national and international conferences. He has presented invited plenary lectures at symposia in Canada France Italy Malaysia Netherlands Norway Poland Qatar Taiwan and the United States. He is the current editor of the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries and a past president of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering Engineers Nova Scotia and Engineers Canada. He has also served as chair of the Canadian Engineering Qualifications Board member of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board and co-chair of the Materials and Chemical Engineering Evaluation Group of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Dr. Amyotte has consulted on numerous industrial projects involving hazard analysis incident investigation and material explosibility. Dr. Amyotte is a recipient of distinct awards including Cybulski Medal from the Polish Academy of Sciences the Trevor Kletz Merit Award from the Mary Kay OConnor Process Safety Center and the Process Safety Management Award from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering.