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HAZOP is a technique used in process industries to identify hazards and risks. It works by analyzing how a process could deviate from its design intent, identifying potential causes and consequences. The goal is to evaluate safety measures and provide recommendations to minimize risks of incidents like fires, explosions or toxic releases. An effective HAZOP study requires a balanced multidisciplinary team to thoroughly examine the process and identify any gaps or weaknesses in safety systems. Common pitfalls include unclear objectives, imbalanced teams, overly complex documentation and sessions that are too long and lose participant interest.
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- 2. • HAZOP isone of the most widely used PHA technique worldwide in industries like Oil & Gas, Chemical, Petrochemical, Engineering, etc. The HAZOP technique attempts to identify how a process may deviate from its design intent, identifies the causes and possible consequences and finally evaluates existing safeguards to decide further recommendations if required. What Is HAZOP STUDY?
- 3. • HAZOP techniquehelps industries handling hazardous chemicals identify inherent hazards in the process, finds likely causes which may result into unwanted consequences and finally evaluates existing safeguards. • In addition to evaluation of efficacyand sufficiency of the safeguards; HAZOP technique gives recommendations to avoid occurrences of HSE incidents like fire, explosion or release of toxic gas. • HAZOPs seek to minimize the effect of a typical situation in the operation/process by ensuring that control and other safety systems such as functional safety (e.g. emergency safe shutdown) are in place and work with a high level of reliability. Key Benefits of HAZOP Study
- 4. • Lack ofclarity about the purpose & deliverables of HAZOP. • Unbalanced team representing only one or two departments. • Too complex risk matrix when a simplified risk matrix could have been well understood and easily interpreted by team members. • Worksheet not customized as per relevance. Repetitive filling of unnecessary and irrelevant fields in work-sheet results in bored sessions. • Too long HAZOP session results in loss of interest of team members and it ends up with compromise in HAZOP quality due to hurry for the sake of completion. WHY HAZOPs FAIL
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- 8. OUR APPROCH INPSM OUR EXPERIENCE JOGI has extensive experience of implementing PSM in small to middle scale industries various sectors like Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Specialty Chemicals etc. OUR TEAM JOGI has a team of experienced professionals from various industries. TIME FRAME PSM is a committed program ranging from one to three years depending on t he size of the Industries, types of operations, manual & DCS/PLC Operations.
Editor's Notes
- #3 This is the text book definition of Process Safety Management. PSM is more that the OSHA standard. It originally was developed by AIChe (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Center for Process Safety, refineries (American Petroleum Institute) and chemical manufacturers (Chemical Manufacturer’s Association -Responsible Care) as a management system for hazardous processes. We’ve all heard the tale of Bhopal, India, where over 2000 died from a release of Isocyanates. OSHA adopted these organizations’ framework, and on their heels was EPA with their Risk Management rule.
- #5 This is the text book definition of Process Safety Management. PSM is more that the OSHA standard. It originally was developed by AIChe (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Center for Process Safety, refineries (American Petroleum Institute) and chemical manufacturers (Chemical Manufacturer’s Association -Responsible Care) as a management system for hazardous processes. We’ve all heard the tale of Bhopal, India, where over 2000 died from a release of Isocyanates. OSHA adopted these organizations’ framework, and on their heels was EPA with their Risk Management rule.