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Presented by:
Ijaz Ahmad
DE (Process)
Contents
What is Hazards?
What is Process Safety Management (PSM)?
Whats Covered by PSM?
What are the Process Hazards?
What is Process Hazards Analysis (PHA)?
What are the PHA techniques?
What is Hazard?
An inherent physical or chemical
points
Hazard Management:
The World as It Was Before
Good people
doing good things
2,500
immediate
fatalities;
20,000+ total
Many other
offsite injuries
HAZARD:
Highly Toxic
Methyl Isocyanate
HAZARD:
Flammable LPG
in tank
systematic
identification,
evaluation, and
mitigation or prevention
of chemical releases
that could occur as a
result of failures in
process, procedures, or
equipment.
Process Safety
Management
The main objective is to prevent the release
Information
Employee Involvement
Process Hazard Analysis
Operating Procedures
Training
Contractors
Pre-Startup Safety
Review
Whats Covered by
PSM?...
Mechanical Integrity
Hot Work
Management of
Change
Incident
Investigation
Emergency Planning
and Response
Compliance Audits
Trade Secrets
Process Hazards
High temperatures
Extremely low temperatures
High pressures
Vacuum
Vibration/liquid hammering
Rotating equipment
Ionizing radiation
High voltage/current
Erosion/Corrosion
What can go
wrong?
How likely is
it?
PHA
Methodology
Knowledge
and Intuition
HAZOP
Rigorous review of the design and
operability of a system;
Identify potential hazards and/or
operability problems;
Uses guidewords & parameters;
Drawings broken into Nodes are assessed.
What If / Checklist
Requires experienced and knowledgeable
team members;
A series of what if questions are asked for
each system / subsystem;
Each question represents the potential for
equipment failure or an error in operating
procedure.
FMEA
Initially used in aerospace and
US Air Force;
Focuses on the possibility of one
undesired event occurring;
Maps the complex relationships that can
cause the event by including all of the
contributory factors that are known.
recommendations;
Acceptance, rejection, substitution, or
modification of any recommendation must
be documented;
Rejection of a recommendation must be
communicated to the study team.
ANY QUESTION?