Process safety focuses on preventing fires, explosions and accidental chemical/ toxic releases in chemical/ process facilities or other facilities dealing with hazardous materials.Continue Reading

The risk arising and safeguard in place to protect the user from injuries from the moving/operating machineries. This includes the access to the dangerous part of the machineries.Continue Reading

Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is an approach to determine the Integrity Levels (ILs) for all identified safeguarding process loops whilst Safety Integrity Level (SIL) is a measure of safety system performance, in terms of probability of failure on demand (PFD).Continue Reading

Hazard Identification (HAZID) is a brainstorming workshop with a multi-disciplinary team to identify potential hazards. HAZID examines all reasonably possible sources of hazard during project design, construction, installation, and decommissioning activities, and for proposed changes to existing operations.Continue Reading

Workplace approach to manage process safety as a result of group values and behaviors.Continue Reading

Center for Chemical Process Safety. A recognise professional body that commits to Process Safety by providing certification, courses, guidelines, membership and reports of statistical data (similar to US OSHA and Energy Institute – EI).Continue Reading

Process safety incidents can be inhibited by employing effective communication, provide workers with appropriate training, and ensure that a firm and well updated policies / procedures in place.Continue Reading

Process safety is disciplined that involves engineering and management skills focusing on preventing Hazard consequences from unexpected deviations in process conditions associated with the use of chemicals and petroleum products.Continue Reading

An HSE Policy document outlines the general approach taken for matters related to health, safety and protection of the environment as essential values, whereby the responsible party recognises and accepts its health and safety duties for providing a safe working environment.Continue Reading

PSI stands for process safety information which contains information such as physical, chemical and toxicological information related to the chemicals, process and equipment.Continue Reading