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Welcome to Sutton Technical Books. We provide books, ebooks, videos, operational assessments and safety moments for managers, engineers and executives in the process and energy industries — covering chemicals, oil refining, offshore oil and gas and pipelines. Our goal is to provide practical information that will help you design and operate facilities that are safe, efficient and in compliance with rules and regulations. Our weekly blog entitled The PSM Report discusses current developments in the world of process safety management.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at our contact page.  

To the left of this page you will see three menu lists. The first of these is a list of currently available Safety Moments. These provide suggestions for those who are charged with starting a meeting with a discussion to do with safety. The Safety Moments cover a wide range of topics, from incident analysis, to the principles of process safety management to the design and operation of equipment. The Safety Moments that you see listed are available at no cost. Earlier Safety Moments have been collected into a published ebook: 52 Process Safety Moments.

The second menu shows some of the Articles that we have published. Many of these articles provide some commentary on current events. For example, we have written about ‘The New PSM Normal’, i.e., what the world of process safety may look like following the current COVID-19 pandemic. The article The New PSM Normal (1) — Deflation is the first in this series.

The third menu list is ‘Topics’. Each article or safety moment is indexed with one of more topics. Each topic page starts with a description of that topic, followed by a list of pertinent publications. For example, the Topic page Offshore Oil and Gas provides an overview of that subject, and then lists articles and Safety Moments, currently starting with The New PSM Normal (4) — Automation.


Latest Information (July 1st 2020)

Man reading newspaper

This week’s Safety Moment is Safety Moment #58: Fukushima-Daiichi - Two Too Many Common Causes. The catastrophic series of events that took place at this nuclear power plant complex in the year 2011 receive little publicity now. But they provide a powerful example of Common Cause Events. In this case, the subsea earthquake first severely damaged the nuclear reactors. Then the same quake create a tsunami that wiped out the backup cooling water pumps. Further analysis of events such as this is provided in the ebook Frequency Analysis. A list of all the Safety Moments is provided here.


Contractors

Contractors in the process industries

We have published three YouTube videos to do with contractors. They are:

  • Contractors and Operators
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Management of Contractors

Further information to do with these videos is provided here. Additional information is provided in the ebook Contractors and Safety Moment #74: Contractors in the Process Industries.
 


Catalog

Catalog of Sutton Technical Books products

We offer a wide range of books and ebooks for purchase. They fall into four broad categories.

  • Printed books, published by Elsevier (the price posted for the printed books may vary — the publisher frequently offers substantial discounts);
  • Ebooks published directly by Sutton Technical Books (.pdf format);  and
  • The chapters of the printed books, made available as ebooks from ScienceDirect (.pdf format).These also may be discounted;
  • Slide packs/PowerPoint Presentations (.pptx format).

The current catalog is shown below.

Title Format Price
(U.S. $)
Printed Books    
Process Risk and Reliability Management Print 170.00
Plant Design and Operations Print 170.00
Offshore Safety Management Print 143.65
Ebooks (Sutton Technical Books)    
A Brief History of Process Safety Management .pdf 9.50
52 Process Safety Moments .pdf 19.50
Ebooks (Science Direct) from Process Risk and Reliability Management    
Risk Management .pdf 31.50
Compliance and Standards .pdf 31.50
Culture and Participation .pdf 31.50
Technical Information .pdf 31.50
Hazard Identification .pdf 31.50
Operating Procedures .pdf 31.50
Training and Competence .pdf 31.50
Prestartup Reviews .pdf 31.50
Asset Integrity .pdf 31.50
Management of Change .pdf 31.50
Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis .pdf 31.50
Emergency Management .pdf 31.50
Audits and Assessments .pdf 31.50
Consequence Analysis .pdf 31.50
Frequency Analysis .pdf 31.50
Reliability, Availability and Maintainability .pdf 31.50
Managing a Risk Program .pdf 31.50
Project Management .pdf 31.50
Contractors .pdf 31.50
The Risk Management Professional .pdf 31.50
Ebooks (Science Direct) from Plant Design and Operations    
Safety in Design .pdf 31.50
Siting and Layout .pdf 31.50
Equipment and Buildings .pdf 31.50
Piping .pdf 31.50
Valves .pdf 31.50
Instrumentation and Control .pdf 31.50
Transportation .pdf 31.50
Operations .pdf 31.50
Maintenance .pdf 31.50
Energy Control .pdf 31.50
Inspection .pdf 31.50
Firefighting .pdf 31.50
Occupational Safety .pdf 31.50
Personal Protective Equipment .pdf 31.50
Health and Industrial Hygiene .pdf 31.50
Human Factors and Ergonomics .pdf 31.50
Chemicals .pdf 31.50
Common Hazards .pdf 31.50
Security .pdf 31.50
Ebooks (Science Direct) from Offshore Safety Management    
Risk Management .pdf 31.50
Major Offshore Events .pdf 31.50
Safety Offshore .pdf 31.50
Safety and Environmental Management Systems .pdf 31.50
Contractors .pdf 31.50
Implementing SEMS .pdf 31.50
Safety Cases .pdf 31.50
Formal Safety Assessments .pdf 31.50
PowerPoint Presentations    
Presentation: Management of Change — Defining Change .pptx 9.50
Presentation: Operating Procedures — Defining Terms .pptx 9.50

 

 

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Safety Moments

Safety Moment #106: Process Safety Assessments
Safety Moment #105: Process Safety Wisdom
Safety Moment #104: Behavior-Based Safety
Safety Moment #103: Human Error Modeling
Safety Moment #102: ALARP and Acceptable Risk
Safety Moment #98: Types of Fire
Safety Moment #97: Stairways and Ladders
Safety Moment #96: Safety Signs
Safety Moment #94: Fault Tree Analysis
Safety Moment #93: The Fundamentals of Risk

Articles

Hard Times for These Times
The New PSM Normal (2) — Do Less With More
The New PSM Normal (1) — Deflation
The New PSM Normal (4) — Automation
The New PSM Normal (3) — Peak Oil

Topics

Assessments
Audits
Bureau Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)
Chemical Safety Board
Chemicals and Materials
Common Process Hazards
Communication
Consequence Analysis
Contractors
Culture
Dangers of Safety
Energy Control
Equipment
Fires and Explosions
Hazards Analysis
Health
Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE)
Human Factors
Hyperloop
Incident Investigation
Incidents
Industries
Inherent Safety
Maintenance
Management
Management of Change
Marine
NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material)
Nuclear
Occupational
Offshore Oil and Gas
Operational Excellence
Operations
Organizations
Piping and Valves
Pressure Vessels
Prestartup Reviews
Process Safety Management
Regulations, Codes and Engineering Standards
Risk

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