The Alarm Management Handbook

The Second Edition of the most complete bestpractices book available for designing andmaintaining an effective alarm managementsystem.Abnormal situations in plants around the world kill andinjure people, cause significant environmental harm, andcost the industry billions of dollars every year.Investigation reports on industrial accidents often pointto faulty alarm systems as a contributing factor. Poorlyperforming alarm systems hinder an operator’s ability toprevent accidents or minimize process upsets. Properlydesigned and maintained alarm systems significantlyimprove plant safety, reliability, and profitability.The Alarm Management Handbook provides afield-proven methodology for improving theperformance of industrial facility’s alarm systems. Itderives from over a decade of research and the lessonslearned from hundreds of successful alarm improvementprojects.This highly anticipated new edition contains anadditional fifty pages of information, new figures, andseveral completely new sections. It contains the mostup-to-date body of best practices knowledge availablefor improving and optimizing the performance of amodern alarm system. There is additional practicalinformation on benchmarking alarm systemperformance, developing a comprehensive alarmphilosophy, solving nuisance alarm problems,performing alarm rationalization, implementingadvanced alarm handling techniques, and improving thehuman factors associated with alarm systems. Theimplications of the new ANSI/ISA-18.2-2009 Managementof Alarm Systems for the Process Industries are alsodetailed. Companies have achieved breakthrough resultsby following the principles contained in this book.Whatever the nature of your alarm system, The AlarmManagement Handbook is a necessary part of youroperational excellence and other business improvementinitiatives. This book will help you make a long-lastingmark in your organization by providing you withstrategies to improve your company’s bottom line. Read more