Overview
- Presents the latest developments in the field of fire and process safety
- Discusses fire hazards and their control in different contexts
- Highlights future research trends
Part of the book series: Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering (STICEE)
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Conference proceedings info: HSFEA 2018.
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About this book
This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences. It highlights latest developments in the field of science and technology aimed at improving health and safety in the workplace. The volume comprises content from leading scientists, engineers, and policy makers discussing issues relating to industrial safety, fire hazards and their management in industry, forests and other settings. Also dealt with are issues of occupational health in engineering, process and agricultural industry and protection against incidents of arson and terror attacks. The contents of this volume will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and policy makers alike.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Faisal Khan is Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier I) of Offshore Safety and Risk Engineering. His areas of research interest include offshore safety and risk engineering, inherent safety, risk management, and risk-based integrity assessment and management. He is actively involved with multinational oil and gas industries on the issue of safety and asset integrity. He is the recipient of President Outstanding Research Award of 2012-13, CSChE National Award on Process Safety Management of 2014, President Outstanding Research Supervision Award of 2013-14, and recently Society of Petroleum Engineer award for his contribution in Health, Safety and Risk Engineering. He has authored over 400 research articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences on safety, risk and reliability engineering. He has authored five books on the subject area.
N.A. Siddiqui is a Professor at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. He holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from Lucknow University, India, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Biology from Awadhesh Pratap Singh University (APS) University, India. Additionally, he has a number of professional certifications, e.g., a NEBOSH diploma, NEBOSH–IGC, IOSH Managing Safely, Lead Auditor OHSAS 18001, Lead Auditor ISO 14001 and GRAD-IOSH. Prof. Siddiqui’s research interests include occupational health, safety and environment. He has co-authored more than 100 papers and eight books and has organized a number of national and international seminars/conferences/MDPs. He has also worked on a number of R&D projects.
S. M. Tauseef is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Research) at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India. He holds an M.S. in Chemical Engineering (Process Design) from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Pondicherry University. Dr. Tauseef’s research interests include process safety, especiallyforecasting and consequence assessment of accidents in chemical process industries. He has developed methodologies for application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to dense gas dispersion, vapor cloud explosions, and single and multiple pool fires. His other interest is in solid waste management, especially the design of continuously operable vermireactor systems for assorted wastes, and high-rate anaerobic digesters. He has published 70 journal articles, co-authored/edited six books, three patents and presented papers at 30 conferences.
Bikrama Prasad Yadav is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Safety, Environment and Civil Engineering at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India, where his work focuses on construction and process safety, fire engineering, risk analysis and management. He has previously worked as the SHE manager with J Kumar Infra Projects Limited (India), B L Kashyap & Sons Ltd (India), among others, where he was responsible for conducting industrial audits and training as well as management and supervision of projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Industrial Safety
Book Subtitle: Select Proceedings of HSFEA 2018
Editors: Faisal I. Khan, Nihal Anwar Siddiqui, S. M. Tauseef, B. P. Yadav
Series Title: Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6852-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6851-0Published: 19 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6854-1Published: 20 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6852-7Published: 18 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2363-7633
Series E-ISSN: 2363-7641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 332
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety, Safety in Chemistry, Dangerous Goods