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Safety Inherently Safer Design: The Fundamentals Dennis C, HENDERSHOT Center FoR CHEMICAL Process SAFETY Build safety into your process by substituting less-hazardous materials and chemistry, minimizing inventories and equipment sizes, moderating operating conditions, and simplifying unnecessarily complex operations. limimton offs as away bona gal of Ferien cis nt es inungihchenic pesos (PD. insta 19 eben eal spats poms Fk manana eens desig 09D) Sima ems Sicha iit sa chology (ST adie ‘safer processes (ISP), have also been used, In I97, Ter Keo gv te aie Lee tothe Sot of Chea ny in nga ete “What You Don’t Have, Can't Leak” (1), Kletz suggested inthe mos ev pen o pes ak nmap wold eo fosn cnintion ofinart whoeeie te hn hing my ystems an coe ine Heed wih oc pln el ned Lage quits ef famablr se mately weer ISeharrlos mater couldte el nt whee as tally mse topumiat har covton sha hightemperature He gly elle i fk managerontaproechinial sf” ch was ner Change feny afer ved crise wh he tn oni sf rb ctan peo et calenipot Aout Kit and ters have acknowlged at its notalvaye aslo shnntehay hae ena Sd his ee int apchs pves tik iungemen tern cep te preset arr and inet rong on hard pe Hao notchalene the ed fora mts nating cron BO svnnscrecryeap lrusry 2012 CRP Over the Ist 40 years, the philosophy of ISD has continued to evolve. Recently, new editions of the primary reference books on ISD have been published: Jnherently Safer Chemical Processes: A Life Cycle Approach, by the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) (2); and Process Plants: A Handbook for Inherently Safer Design, by Kletz and Amyotte (3). These books incorporate the latest develop- ‘ments in ISD based on decades of industrial experience. What is ISD? A frequently cited dictionary definition of inherent is. something that exists “as an essential constituent or char acteristic.” Safty is built into the process or product, not added on, Hazards are eliminated or significant reduced, ‘not controlled, and the way they are eliminated or reduced isso fundamental tothe design tha it cannot be changed or

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