An operational barrier is a human action or response that activates a physical barrier to bring back the process from an abnormal state to a normal state, thereby enhancing the total system reliability.Continue Reading

Process Safety Barriers are physical / non-physical means planned to detect control, mitigate, and recover the impact of the hazard event consequences.Continue Reading

Risk barriers are safety measures or controls that provide an effective means against known risks to prevent unwanted events from taking place as well as to protect against their consequences.Continue Reading

Front line barrier management refers to personnel who are critical in ensuring all safety-critical task/activity is carried out to maintain the effectiveness of all barriers identified for a facility.Continue Reading

Barrier based risk management is about identifying the critical controls (barriers) and understanding the status and effectiveness of the barriers to managing the risk.Continue Reading

Bowtie is a tool of risk assessment that demonstrates/visualise the relation between the causes, hazard, top event, consequences also safeguard and controls that can be considered as preventive (barrier) / mitigating measures.Continue Reading

A bowtie diagram is a pictorial representation of the relationship between potential threats, preventive/ mitigative barriers in place and the ultimate consequences associated with each major accident hazard.Continue Reading

A formal document to capture and record all the hazards, their causes, consequences safeguards, risk ranking and any related findings discussed in the HAZID workshop. This also includes the methodology to conduct the study and its nodes and information reviewed in the workshop.Continue Reading

The HAZID Study is a qualitative study that aims to identify all Major Accident Hazards (MAH) associated with the facilities.Continue Reading

To determine the adverse effects of exposure to hazards and plan necessary actions to mitigate such risks.Continue Reading