Process Safety Management

Basics

• The Safety Management of Industrial Processes / Facilities
• The development of systems and protocol in a ((Bio)(Petro-))Chemical Plant / Major Facility ( Fuel Farms / Fueling Stations , Anhydrous Ammonia storage/filling sites, etc) preventing fires, explosions and accidental chemical releases
• Essentially anything at a commercial to industrial scale that is a significant risk of:
  • Explosion Hazard
  • Flammability Risk
  • Health Hazard (Caustic, Carcinogen, Toxic, Poisonous, etc)
  • Environmental Hazard
  • etc

Relevant OSE Aspects

• Fuel Farm / Fueling Station / Fuel Storage
• Bio-Refinery
• Eco-Industrial Park
• Welding Gas Storage/Production (?) ( Cascade Filling System high pressure explosion / mass asphyxiant release)
• Hydrogen Production / Hydrogen Storage
• Biogas Storage / Biogas Upgrading , and to a lesser degree Biogas Production

Procedure

1. Standard Facility/Process/Site Planning
2. Hazard Analysis ( Hazard and Operability Study ( HAZOP ) (uk term only, or no?)
3. Layer of Protection Analysis / Safety Integrity Analysis
4. Formal Review (?)
5. Facility/Process/Site Construction
6. Facility/Process/Site Inspection
7. Facility/Process/Site Low Level Testing / Operation
8. Facility/Process/Site Full Scale Operation/Production

Internal Links

• Safety Management

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Process Safety
• The Wikipedia Page on Process Safety Management (USA/OSHA Usage/Term)
• A Whitepaper by OSHA on Process Safety Management
• A 2020 Presentation/Slideshow for World Stainless Titled "Process Safety Management" by Tim Collins (On the relevance of Process Safety Management to the Steel Industry]
• "ACRP 11-01/Topic 06-01 (Final) Operational and Legal Issues with Fuel Farms"