Chemical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security

by Frank R. Spellman, Revonna M. Bieber

Overview

The malicious acts against or within the chemical industrial sector pose a significant threat to both the employees working in the industry, to the communities around them, and to the nation they serve. This new book, the third in a series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, helps chemical manufacturers and processors prevent the devastating effects of such an attack by providing sound security principles and measures that they can implement in their chemical facilities. Addressing the security threats chemical production managers, chemical import managers, design engineers, and others must be prepared to meet on a daily basis, this book encourages a concerted effort to incorporate security upgrades in existing systems or to plan security in all new chemical processing sites. It addresses issues of monitoring, response, critical infrastructure redundancy, and recovery to minimize risk to the facility, the infrastructure, and the surrounding community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591919452
Publisher:	Government Institutes
Publication date:	06/15/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Frank R. Spellman is Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at Old Dominion University and the author of more than fifty books, including Water Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (GI, 2007) and Food Supply Protection and Homeland Security (GI, 2008). Revonna M. Bieber works for the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in the field of industrial hygiene. She is coauthor, with Frank Spellman, of Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Chemical Industry (GI, 2009) and Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Food Manufacturing Industry (GI, 2007).

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Introduction 1

2 Critical Infrastructure 33

3 The Chemical Industry 39

4 Chemical Facility Security 49

5 Vulnerability Assessments 55

6 Preparation: When Is Enough, Enough? 89

7 SCADA and the Chemical Industry 107

8 Emergency Response 127

9 Security Techniques and Hardware 145

10 The Paradigm Shift 205

Index 217

About the Authors 223