Process Safety Plan for Capital Projects
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2015
2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety
Global Congress on Process Safety
Poster Session
Monday, April 27, 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Process Safety is designed from the early engineering stage through the identification of risks associated to hazardous substances and the understanding of the impact that they can have on the people, the environment and the business. To maintain the health of the barriers that are built as project evolves it is necessary to establish specific requirements attached to a coordinated plan.
When PHAs, engineering reviews, reliability studies and health, safety and environmental reviews are established as specific requirements of a project and they are scheduled to be performed in the right time of the development and taking into account the evolution of engineering it is possible to take measures to identify and create barriers for the relevant Process Safety risks and follow them up to ensure that they remain healthy during the life cycle. This process can be more effective if the resolution of these activities is established as deliverables when project goes from one stage to the next.
The paper uses as framework the general structure defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI) to develop projects. The presentation defines which PHAs, reviews, studies and activities are applicable to every stage and when they can maximize value. It also provides tips on how to set processes to ensure that actions are formally communicated and followed in order that they come to a proper resolution. The presentation goes briefly over aspects related to Inherently Safer Design, engineering design reviews, major accident hazards, safety critical equipment and other applicable practices.
Within the presentation is also a proposal to integrate resulting actions of the plan into the PSM and use its processes and tools to systematically manage project PS risks.
Finally, the presentation suggest some necessary roles within the organization to effectively implement the plan during the project execution and to ensure that the risks that go beyond the handover to Operations are adequately and formally managed during the life cycle.