1. System analysis
1.1 Analysis objectives
The aim of system analysis is to maintain system performance over time, under design conditions and at the lowest possible cost. To achieve this, as with any SoTL study, the system's functional and dysfunctional behavior must be modeled, and its performance assessed.
Industrial process safety depends on the interaction, control and ongoing management of three essential variables: the product, the process and the human factor.
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The method was first published in 1974 by LAWLEY*, then successively described in three application guides, the first in 1976 by KNOWLTON* and SHIPLEY of ICI, the second in 1977 by the Chemical Industries Association (CIA)* and the third in 1981, again by KNOWLTON*, but on behalf of Chemetics International Ltd. These guides were followed twenty years later, in 2001, by the international standard IEC 61882 entitled: "Hazard...
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