Safety and Reliability Subject Guide


The Information and Library Service compiles occasional subject guides for engineers and students. The aim is to highlight sources of information available in the library and the Institution itself, along with some useful websites to take you further afield.

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Design for Safety and Reliability Organisational Capacity: a Guide to the Achievement of Safety and Reliability of equipment, System or Services (Prepared for IMechE, S&RG by WG1 Committee) (April 2006)
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Locating Safety and Reliability Information in the IMechE Library

The following is a list of key shelf numbers for the safety and reliability subject area. If you are looking for a particular book please check the Library Catalogue.

Topic Shelf Number
Accident prevention 614.8
Automotive safety 629.2136
Crashworthiness 656.04
Engineering disasters 614.8
Environmental health and pollution 614.7
Failure, stress and strain 620.112
Fires and fire prevention 614.84
Health and safety 614.8
Machinery safety 614.838
Maintenance 658.202
Nuclear safety 621.4835
Practical reliability and quality 621.47
Risk assessment 614.8
Statistical reliability 310.21

Useful Books

Reliability and risk assessment
(Andrews JD) 		614.8 AND
Hazop and hazan: identifying and assessing process industry standards
(Kletz TA) 		660.2804 KLE
Engineering disasters - lessons to be learned 2005
(Lawson D) 		614.8 LAW
Fire safety 2006 614.84 SAE (Oversize)
RCM: gateway to world class maintenance 2004
(Smith AM and Hinchcliffe GR) 		658.202 SMI
Reliability and robust design in automotive engineering 2007 629.2 SAE (Oversize)
Practical industrial safety, risk assessment and shutdown systems for industry
(MacDonald D) 		614.7 MAC
The reliability data handbook 2005
(Moss TR) 		310.21 MOS
Health and safety in brief 2004
(Ridley J) 		614.8 RID
Safety with machinery 2006
(Ridley J) 		614.838 RID
Winning with health and safety: a guide for business 2005
(Perry P) 		614.7 PER (Oversize)
Improving maintainability and reliability through design
(Thompson G) 		658.202 THO
Managing risk and reliability of process planets 2003
(Tweedale M) 		660.2804 TWE
How did that happen 2002
(Wong W) 		614.8 WON
Keep it running, keep it safe 2004
(Wong W) 		614.8 WON

Ebooks

The following ebooks are available via Books24x7 in the IMechE Virtual Library:

A manager’s guide to health and safety at work, Kogan, 2003
Benchmarking best practices in maintenance management, Industrial Press, 2004
Effective maintenance management: risk and reliability, Industrial Press. 2004
Health, safety and environmental legislation, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003
Maintainability, availability and operational readiness, DEStech Publications, 2003
Process problem solving: a guide for maintenance, Productivity Press, 2001
RCM guidebook: building a reliable plant maintenance, PennWell Corp, 2004
Reliability engineering handbook, volume 1, DEStech Publications, 2002
Reliability engineering handbook, volume 2, DEStech Publications, 2002
Reliability and life testing handbook, volume 1, DEStech Publications, 2002
Reliability and life testing handbook, volume 2, DEStech Publications, 2002
Systems reliability and failure prevention, Artech House, 2004

Recent IMechE Safety and Reliability Conferences and Seminars

Please visit Safety and Reliability Papers and Presentations (Archive)

Useful Safety and Reliability Journals

The library has an extensive collection of journals including

Fire prevention and fire engineers’ journal, 1975-
Health and safety at work (HSW), 1 year
IMechE Proceedings part O Journal of risk and reliability, 2006-
Insight,1959-
The ROSPA occupational safety and health journal, 5 years

Please check the Library Catalogue to see if the library subscribes to your required journal.

E-journals

The following titles are available via EBSCO Business Source in the Virtual Library.

Injury control & safety promotion
International journal of injury control & safety promotion
Safety management
Fire management today
Fire safety engineering
Flying safety
Occupational hazards
Pollution Engineering
Professional safety

Helpful HSE Guides (A selection)

HSG85 Electricity at Work. Safe working practices.
HSG142 Dealing with off shore emergencies
HSG176 The storage of flammable liquids in tanks.
HSG65 Successful health and safety management
HSG48 Reducing error and influencing behaviour
HSG138 Techniques to reduce noise in the workplace.
HSG181 Assessment principles for off shore safety case ( NB could be generally useful)
HSG Books Catalogue (for many more titles)

Informative ISO Standards

ISO IEC 61160, Formal Design Review
ISO IEC 61025, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
ISO IEC 61078, Analysis Techniques for dependability, Reliability Block
Diagram Methods.
ISO IEC 60300 Dependability Management, Part 1 Management Systems, Part 2 Guidance for Dependability Management.

Databases

Please visit the Virtual Library page for information about the library's databases.

Websites

Please visit Safety and Reliability Web Links

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