HAZID
Hazard identification
Systematic hazard identification for existing plants, new projects and modifications.
Safety standards
Methods that reduce major accident risk
We bring process safety knowledge and practices to industry through capacity building, evaluation, tools and expertise, in order to protect people, assets and the environment.
The methods below are used in PSES studies and advisory work. Listing them describes practice, not a claim that PSES holds a particular third-party certification.
Process safety frameworks
Process safety frameworks
Structured hazard identification and risk analysis methods used on existing plants, modifications and new projects.
HAZOP
Hazard and operability
Structured multidisciplinary study of process deviations, causes, consequences, safeguards and recommendations, including design HAZOP before construction.
SIL
Safety integrity level
Assessment of safety instrumented functions as part of process design and protection analysis.
LOPA
Layers of protection analysis
Evaluation of independent protection layers against major accident scenarios.
Bow-Tie
Major hazard analysis
Analysis of major hazard events, threats, consequences and barriers in a form operating teams can use.
QRA
Quantitative risk assessment
Consequence and risk evaluation, including fire, release, explosion and dispersion modelling where the study requires it.
Management systems
Management systems
Preparation and audit support for occupational health, environment and food-safety control frameworks.
ISO 45001
Occupational health and safety
Preparation and audit support covering policies, procedures, legal requirements, risk assessments and competency.
ISO 14001
Environmental management
Support to prepare environmental management systems for audit, including legal requirements and aspects evaluation.
HACCP
Food safety controls
Preparation for HACCP audits as part of the organisation’s control framework.
Engineering practices
Engineering practices
Project-stage assessment used after basic engineering and before detailed design on oil and gas work.
HSEIA
Health, safety and environmental impact assessment
Project assessment after basic engineering and before detailed design, incorporating HAZID, HAZOP, Bow-Tie, fire and explosion evaluation and QRA.
Why invest in safety
The business case for safety should be part of local management decision making. Good safety is a good investment: it stops loss and it creates positive gains.
Stopping loss
- Business controls: protecting the business means having risk controls in place and staff who apply them.
- Legislation: every country has safety legislation, with sanctions if it is not met.
- Incident costs: injury, damage, lost production, diverted effort and emergency response add to the cost of recovery.
- Reputation: reputation is easy to lose, difficult to regain, and loss of reputation loses business.
Positive gains
- Healthy staff in a healthy work environment have less sickness absence, are better motivated and more efficient.
- A good safety management system can reduce insurance premiums.
- Good environmental systems make less pollution and use resources more efficiently.
- A good safety record helps make you a partner and operator of choice, and attracts the best people.
Next step
Every safer operation starts with understanding the risk.
Talk to our process safety experts about your facility, operation, or project.