Keeping Our Chemical Facilities Safe

Know your process backwards and forwards, but don’t know a thing about security? Know security like the back of your hand, but don’t know chemicals? Worried that DHS might throw you a curve ball with the new regulations? Let Stephen R. Melvin and Bill Benson guide you through your Security Vulnerability Assessment! From two of the industry’s leading experts in Chemical Facility Vulnerability Assessments comes this breakthrough book to help you implement the US Department of Homeland Security’s Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Standards required under the recently published regulations. This book will take you on a step-by-step journey from starting the process to a complete and comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment/Site Security Plan, with the bonus that your facility will be in compliance with the regulations! Author Bio: Stephen R. Melvin, PE CSP CPP, and William R. Benson began developing methodologies for performing Vulnerability Assessments on Chemical Facilities in 1997. Their work was included in Sandia National Labs’ original methodology for performing these Vulnerability Assessments. They have completed numerous VAs on complicated facilities ranging throughout the state of California, and a comparable number of Emergency Response Plans. Between their expertise, and their no-nonsense approach to implementing the regulations, this book should be able to easily guide you through your own processes and help you bring your facility into full compliance with the new regulations.