Hazard Review Services
Need help with hazard reviews, HAZOPs, process hazard
analyses (PHAs)? We can help.
PII staff have led more than 250
major PHAs/HAZOPs and revalidations and we co-authored the
definitive textbook on these analyses and published many
papers on the topic as well.
- While you need trained PHA leaders within your
company to execute hazard reviews of changes (MOCs) that
come up daily, the time required to properly facilitate
and lead a PHA (revalidations for unit-wide PHAs and/or
for PHAs for large projects) is extensive and includes
preparation time, meeting time, and completing the
proper documentation of the findings and resolutions.
- PII Conducts Meetings with Speed & Efficiency.
Because of our vast experience spanning 25+ years of
optimizing PHA procedures, and with our hands-on
expertise in the best software, we can lead meetings
faster than anyone else, while maintaining
quality/thoroughness. This saves cost for you and your
projects.
- Our leadership includes:
- Delivering superior quality reports with
fully understandable and stand-alone recommendations
(avoids having to view the worksheets at the
same time)
- In-depth knowledge of process safety engineering
and management, which provides us with a clear
understanding of the links and therefore the
deliverables needed from a PHA to other PSM
elements. It is easy for us to provide information
that feeds forward into reliability and PSM such as:
- We can produce a comprehensive list of
critical equipment and critical procedures that
help a company avoid duplication of effort in
generating such lists.
- We can easily expand to consider quality and
reliability issues, allowing a comprehensive
coverage of business risk. This greatly enhances
your return on investment in the PHA.
- Consideration of equipment maintenance
during PHAs; we always consider how the
equipment will be maintained long-term in our
PHAs.
- As a side project, we can help develop
trouble-shooting guides for operations from the
PHA tables.
- Because we helped write the book on layer of
protection analysis (LOPA), we can easily
integrate selection and specification of SIL for
safety instrumented systems into our
deliverables. This saves time and considerable
expense if a second company is hired to only
perform the SIL analysis.
- Performing hazard reviews of critical procedures
(Start-up, Shutdown, Emergency Shutdown)
- Expertise in all PHA techniques (HAZOP, What-If,
FMEA, LOPA, SIL, etc.) and capable of easily
choosing the right techniques based on the
complexity of the process and the type of unit
operations
- Broad industry-specific knowledge from a PHA
perspective
- Our 3rd Party objectivity helps reduce internal
politics between people, companies, and internal
departments
Here’s One Typical Project Scope: PII
leaders and scribes work with your staff to initiate the PHA
preparation; this typically involves:
- A conference call with necessary staff or if needed
a ˝-day site visit to become familiar with the process
by reviewing process safety information (P&IDs and other
documents) and to review the PHA process and become
familiar with the company’s process safety standards,
specifically the standard for conducting PHAs.
- Preparation work includes reviewing P&IDs and
procedures in order to divide the process and procedures
into nodes or sections for review during the hazard
review.
Documentation efforts by PII include:
- Issuing the recommendations
- Cleaning up the PHA tables
- Updating the tables and documenting the resolutions
during all project phases (if requested)
- Writing the final PHA report
Why Choose PII?
- PII has significant experience in leading large
project PHAs, unit-wide PHAs, and process specific PHAs
and revalidations; PII staff
have led more than 250 major PHAs and revalidations
- Thousands have used our training services to
become proficient in Process Hazard Analysis leadership,
implementing process safety management, leading
investigations and root cause analysis, and writing
effective procedures
- Experience in incident investigation, root cause
analysis, and human factors to help the PHA team
identify potential causes and effects of incidents.
PII staff were primary authors of the AIChE/CCPS-sponsored
textbook on Investigation methods (Guidelines for
Investigating Chemical Process Incidents; 2nd Edition,
2003)
- Extensive knowledge in failure rates and human error
probability that helps us to diplomatically break
deadlocks on teams. PII
staff were primary authors of the AIChE/CCPS-sponsored
textbook on the best semi-quantitative risk assessment
method (Layer of Protection Analysis [LOPA], 2000)
- Strong facilitation skills with experience in
leading multi-functional teams as part of PHAs and other
improvement projects
- Extensive industry PSM experience and knowledge;
PII staff were primary authors
of the AIChE/CCPS-sponsored textbook on PHA methods
(Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures; 2nd
Edition, 1992)
- Significant experience in revalidating PHAs.
PII staff have written about
20 papers/articles on process safety management,
including many papers on how to effectively perform
PHAs/HAZOPs
- Recognized experts in the field of process safety
and process hazard analyses. In fact, the
founder of PII led the first PHA
that was submitted to US OSHA for compliance assessment
(in 1990; as part of a settlement agreement between the
client and OSHA)
- Inherent capability for training and mentoring of
your internal PHA leaders and scribes
- In 2006 alone we performed 36 complete
unit-wide PHAs for 10 companies in 5 countries. This
included work at petrochemical plants, gas separation
units, steel production, ammonia/urea, industrial
chemical, and specialty polymers
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