CCPS RBPS Element 04: This Element is a system that includes operations, maintenance, and contractor personnel in the design, development, application, and evolution of the facility's process safety efforts.
A general term used to refer to employees and contractors at a facility. This term is often, but not exclusively, used to refer to operators, maintenance employees, and other employees or contractors who are not in a supervisory or technical role.
A scenario-based hazard evaluation procedure using a brainstorming approach in which typically a team that includes one or more persons familiar with the subject process asks questions or voices concerns about what could go wrong, what consequences could ensue, and whether the existing safeguards...
A material that will react upon contact with water under normal ambient conditions. Includes materials that react violently with water and other materials that react slower but can generate heat or gases that can result in elevated pressure if contained.
A material that does not chemically react with water but undergoes a change of phase or state upon mixture with water that renders it permanently changed or incompatible with the remainder of the process.
A material that is neither reactive with water nor incompatible with water and consequently can be extinguished with a water-based extinguishing system.
