We have license to all proprietary software and must use them based on client demands. And we also use Excel and Word. We do hundreds of PHAs each year; our staff has done more than 5000 unit-size PHAs of projects and of existing units and revalidations to date (over the past 20 years)! LEADER is [...]
Process safety is mostly about controlling direct human error (like operator errors), indirect (latent) effects of human error (main reason parts fail), and compensating for human error. There is also a lot of basic chemical engineering to learn to understand how PSM is controlled and what leads to process hazards. Many folks say that "hands-on" [...]
Saving time is not the same as efficiency; in fact that is why we wrote the paper "Efficient Hazard Evaluation" which you can download from our website's home page. Since our staff (combined with the previous staff I managed at another company) have led more than 10,000 HAZOPs, and run more documented experiments during these [...]