Trevor Kletz

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Trevor Kletz OBE (born 1922, Darlington). A prolific British author on the topic of chemical engineering safety, he was credited with introducing the concept of inherent safety, and a major promoter of Hazop. Graduated in chemistry from University of Liverpool in 1944 and joined ICI the same year. When he retired in 1982 he had established a safety culture within the company based on communication, and an international reputation as an author and speaker. Most of his books are concerned with case studies from industry and the human and technical causes. His autobiography is called “By accident – a life preventing them in industry”.

[edit] Books (sole author)

Improving Chemical Engineering Practices: A New Look at Old Myths of the Chemical Industry (1989) Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0891169296;
Critical Aspects of Safety and Loss Prevention (1990) Butterworths;
Plant Design for Safety – a user-friendly approach (1991) Taylor & Francis;
Lessons from Disaster - How Organisations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur(1993) IChemE ISBN 0852953070;
Learning from Accidents (1994/2001) Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN 075064883X;
Dispelling Chemical Engineering Myths (1996) Taylor & Francis, ISBN 1560324384;
Process Plants – a handbook for inherently safer design (1998) Taylor & Francis;
What Went Wrong? Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters(1998) Gulf, ISBN 0884159205;
Hazop and Hazan 4th ed (1999) Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0852954212;
By Accident… a Life Preventing them in industry (2000) PFV, ISBN 0953844005;
An Engineer’s View of Human Error (2001) IChemE, ISBN 0852954301;
Still Going Wrong: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided (2003) Gulf, ISBN 0750677090