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Trevor Kletz was a British chemical engineer known for his pioneering work in process safety and as the originator of concepts like inherent safety and HAZOP analysis. He had a long career at ICI where he established a strong safety culture and authored several influential books on industrial accidents and their prevention. Kletz received many honors for his contributions to making the chemical industry safer and was considered a founder of modern process safety practices.

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Trevor Kletz - Wikipedia

Trevor Kletz was a British chemical engineer known for his pioneering work in process safety and as the originator of concepts like inherent safety and HAZOP analysis. He had a long career at ICI where he established a strong safety culture and authored several influential books on industrial accidents and their prevention. Kletz received many honors for his contributions to making the chemical industry safer and was considered a founder of modern process safety practices.

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Trevor Kletz

Trevor Asher Kletz, OBE, FREng, FRSC,


FIChemE (1922–31 October 2013) was a
prolific British author on the topic of
chemical engineering safety. He is
credited with introducing the concept of
inherent safety, and was a major promoter
of Hazop.[1] He is listed in The Palgrave
Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History.[2]
Cover of Trevor Kletz Autobiography

Early life and education


Kletz was born in 1922 in Darlington of
Jewish parents, from a Russian immigrant
background.[3] He attended The King's
School, Chester, then the University of
Liverpool, where he graduated in chemistry
in 1944 and joined ICI the same year.
During the Second World War, he was a
member of the Home Guard. In 1959 he
married Denise (died 1980) and they had
two sons.[4]

Professional life

Kletz at a chemical engineering safety workshop,


Manchester 2010
In ICI he worked initially as a research
chemist, then became plant manager (in
turn) of iso-octane, acetone and tar acids
plants. After further experience in process
investigation and commissioning in the
Technical Department, in 1961 he became
assistant works manager on the ICI
Olefines Works near Wilton, Redcar and
Cleveland. In 1968, he was appointed the
first Technical Safety Advisor.[4]

During this time, ICI developed hazard and


operability studies, now known as Hazop,
for which he was an enthusiastic
advocate, and the author of the first book
on the subject.[5]
When he retired in 1982 he had
established a safety culture within the
company based on communication, and
had begun a second career 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. Shortly after
his retirement he expanded a paper
entitled "What you don't have, can't leak"[6]
into the book which began the concept of
inherent safety.[7]

Honours
He was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering, the Royal Society of
Chemistry, the Institution of Chemical
Engineers, and the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers. He was awarded
medals by the latter two institutions.

He was a visiting Professor of Chemical


Engineering at Loughborough University
and an adjunct professor of the Texas
A&M University Artie McFerrin Department
of Chemical Engineering.

In 1997 he was awarded the OBE for


services to industrial safety.[8]
In 2009 he received the Mond Award for
Health and Safety of the Society of
Chemical Industry, where he was said to
be a 'founding father' of safety in the
chemical industry.[9][10]

Books (sole author)


Cheaper, safer plants, or wealth and
safety at work: notes on inherently safer
and simpler plants (1984) IChemE
ISBN 0-85295-167-1
Improving Chemical Engineering
Practices: A New Look at Old Myths of
the Chemical Industry (1989) Taylor &
Francis, ISBN 0-89116-929-6;
Critical Aspects of Safety and Loss
Prevention (1990) Butterworths
ISBN 978-0-408-04429-5;
Plant Design for Safety – a user-friendly
approach (1991) Taylor & Francis
ISBN 978-1-56032-068-5;
Lessons from Disaster – How
Organisations Have No Memory and
Accidents Recur (1993) IChemE ISBN 0-
85295-307-0;
Learning from Accidents (1994/2001)
Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN 0-7506-
4883-X;
Dispelling Chemical Engineering Myths
(1996) Taylor & Francis, ISBN 1-56032-
438-4;
Process Plants – a handbook for
inherently safer design (1998) Taylor &
Francis ISBN 978-1-56032-619-9;
What Went Wrong? Case Histories of
Process Plant Disasters (1998) Gulf,
ISBN 0-88415-920-5;
Hazop and Hazan 4th ed (1999) Taylor &
Francis, ISBN 0-85295-421-2;
By Accident… a Life Preventing them in
industry (2000) PFV, ISBN 0-9538440-0-
5;
An Engineer's View of Human Error 3rd
ed (2001) IChemE, ISBN 0-85295-430-1;
Still Going Wrong: Case Histories of
Process Plant Disasters and How They
Could Have Been Avoided (2003) Gulf,
ISBN 0-7506-7709-0
What Went Wrong?: Case Histories of
Process Plant Disasters and How They
Could Have Been Avoided 5th ed (2009)
Butterworth-Heinemann/IChemE
ISBN 1-85617-531-6;

Books (joint author)


Trevor Kletz, Paul Chung, Eamon
Broomfield and Chaim Shen-Orr (1995)
Computer Control and Human Error
IChemE, ISBN 0-85295-362-3;
Trevor Kletz, Paul Amyotte (2010)
Process Plants: A Handbook for
Inherently Safer Design 2nd ed, CRC
Press ISBN 1-4398-0455-9;

References
1. "Tributes paid to Trevor Kletz" .
IChemE. 1 November 2013. Retrieved
29 November 2017.
2. Rubenstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael;
Rubenstein, Hilary L. (2011). The
Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish
History. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 525.
ISBN 9781403939104.
3. Edwards, David (7 January 2014).
"Trevor Kletz obituary" . The Guardian.
4. Trevor Kletz (2000) By Accident… a
Life Preventing them in industry PFV,
ISBN 0-9538440-0-5
5. T. Kletz (1983) HAZOP & HAZAN-
Notes on the Identification and
Assessment of Hazards Institution of
Chemical Engineers
. T. Kletz (1978) Chemistry & Industry 6
May 1978 page 278
7. T. Kletz (1984) Cheaper, safer plants
IChemE ISBN 0-85295-167-1
. The Times 14 June 1997 page 8
9. Society of Chemical Industry News A
glittering awards night at Belgrave
Square
10. TCE Dec 2009/Jan 2010 p 54 SCI
lauds Kletz as "founding father of
modern safety"

External links
U. S. Chemical Safety Board Statement
from CSB Chairperson Rafael Moure-
Eraso on the Passing of Noted Chemical
Process Safety Expert Professor Trevor
Kletz
Trevor's Corner Mary Kay O'Connor
Process Safety Center
Loughborough University Oration on the
award of an honorary degree 2006
Loughborough University Brief
biography and list of publications

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