TY - GEN A1 - Bäßler, Ralph T1 - Review: What Went Wrong? Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided T2 - Materials and Corrosion N2 - Plant and process safety are very important within the daily business not only in industry. Within its 6th edition complete analysis of design, operational, and management causes of process plant accidents and disasters are collected by Paul Amyotte basing on Trevor Kletz's legacy. Examples shall help readers in understanding what went wrong, why it went wrong and how to avoid similar tragedies without having to experience the loss incurred by others and themselves. Each main part ends with an opportunity for reflection to recall the lessons learned from the examples shown. This collection of, unfortunately, spectacular failure cases fulfills its intension of being the ultimate resource of experienced‐based analysis and guidance for safety and loss prevention professionals. Everyone who is dealing with process and/or plant safety shall have taken at least a look into this book. KW - Failure KW - Damage cases PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.202070124_2 SN - 1521-4176 SN - 0947-5117 VL - 71 IS - 12 SP - 2084 EP - 2085 PB - WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-51781 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -