1. To be the ‘Go To’ reference-quality handbook for managers, technical personnel with process safety responsibilities, and students and academia involved in preventing losses.
2. Strive to define what must be done at each stage in the ‘Life Cycle’, how this can be accomplished, and how these activities can be effectively managed.
3. Provide sufficient history, background, and evolution trends to make the content meaningful. Lees 5 shall show relationships among the various loss prevention aspects.
4. Provide sufficient external and internal references to document the methods and provide further guidance to those seeking more detailed understanding.
5. Make the content relevant to practitioners around the world in both industry as well as academia.
6. Comprehensively keep pace with technological developments in the process safety field with an electronic edition.