Ensuring Process Safety Management: Protecting Lives and Assets
Introduction Process safety management (PSM) is a critical framework that safeguards industrial operations, protecting lives, the
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Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
Best Practices for Effective Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment in Process Safety Introduction Hazard identification and risk assessment are the cornerstones of any robust process safety management program. Ensuring the safety of your industrial operations begins with systematically recognizing potential …
Read MorePartial stroke testing of A SIF
Partial Stroke Testing of Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs) Safety engineers often grapple with the decision of whether to perform a full test or a partial stroke test on a valve, which serves as the final element of a Safety Instrumented …
Read MoreElectrostatic charge accumulation hazard
As a process safety engineer/specialist, from time to time, I get questions from colleagues at work or ex-colleagues to help or as
Acceptable Risk Criteria
Risk Risk is commonly defined as a result of multiplication of likelihood (frequency of an event happening) and undesired conseque
Standards and lessons learned from Incidents
Standards can be considered as collective experience and knowledge of human being to do a certain work or making an equipment. In fact the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) defines a standard as: Think of them as a formula that …
Read MoreProcess Safety Time (PST) Part 8 / PST Calculation Reporting
IEC 61511 is the standard that set the requirements for Safety Instrumented Systems (SIF). As part of this standard, a SIF is required to act within adequate response time to bring the process or a system to a safe state. …
Read MoreProcess Safety Time (PST) part 7 / PST Terms Of Reference (TOR)
IEC 61511 is the standard that set the requirements for Safety Instrumented Systems (SIF). As part of this standard, a SIF is required to act within adequate response time to bring the process or a system to a safe state. …
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Process Safety Time (PST) part 6 / A worked out example
IEC 61511 is the standard that set the requirements for Safety Instrumented Systems (SIF). As part of this standard, a SIF is required to act within adequate response time to bring the process or a system to a safe state. …
Read MoreProcess Safety Time (PST) part 5 / calculation methodology
IEC 61511 is the standard that set the requirements for Safety Instrumented Systems (SIF). As part of this standard, a SIF is required to act within adequate response time to bring the process or a system to a safe state. …
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