Process safety study is a thorough assessment that identifies potential causes and evaluates the consequences of hazardous releases, e.g. bowtie analysis, HAZOP, HAZID, FSAs, etc.Continue Reading

The basic principles of effective safety management are Planning, Doing, Checking, and Acting (PDCA).Continue Reading

The workplace should comply to the regulations/legislations (e.g., OSHA, ISO) ComprehensiveTraining provided for employees to prevent workplace injury and ensure the working environment is safe. Usage of labels and signs as its an effective way to communicate important information and serves as a gentle reminder Develop Risk Register (gives an overview to employees, the potential...Continue Reading

A hazard is significant if it can cause serious damage/ harm to facility, people or environment.Continue Reading

Any hazard or potential hazard should be considered significant if such a failure would directly or indirectly, be liable to endanger assets, environment and/or likely to cause serious or fatal injuries.Continue Reading

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