The broad scope of the journal is process safety. Process safety is defined as the prevention and mitigation of process-related injuries and damage arising from process incidents involving fire, explosion and toxic release. Such undesired events occur in the process industries during the use, storage, manufacture, handling, and transportation of highly hazardous chemicals.
Focus and Emphasis
The focus of the journal is on loss prevention as practiced in the process industries with an emphasis on chemical and process plant safety. This emphasis will be readily identified in manuscripts that make extensive reference to the process safety literature. Regardless of the nature or origin of the manuscript, there must be a clearly defined and explicitly explained original research contribution to the field of process safety.
Topics
Topics eligible for consideration by the journal include:
Process safety management
Process safety culture
Process safety risk assessment
Incident investigation
Design and reliability of protective systems
Plant layout, maintenance and modification
Process alarm management
Emergency planning
Transportation of hazardous materials
Offshore oil and gas safety
Process fires
Gas explosions
Dust explosions
Dispersion of toxic materials
Runaway reactions
Inherently safer design
Human error/human factors
Process security
Process security management
Process security risk assessment
Process safety decision-making and economic issues
Process safety education and training
Other process safety topics not identified in the above list
Exclusions
Topics excluded from consideration by the journal include:
Occupational health and safety
Safety in non-process industry sectors such as construction and aviation
Environmental concerns where such issues are the only or primary focus of the research
Studies in the following areas, and in which there is no explicit consideration of the process safety implications of the research:
Coal mine safety
Fundamental combustion studies
Fundamental corrosion studies
General system reliability
Maintenance schedule optimization
Material characterization
Process control and monitoring
Other non-process safety topics not identified in the above list
The journal upholds a stringent peer review policy. No submission made by the editors shall be handled, viewed, or visible by them upon peer review. Decision to publish will therefore be made on an entirely impartial basis.