Process Safety Management

Developing optimum safety and risk management systems, guidelines and standards, and audit protocols worldwide.

A proactive approach, coupled with properly planned and implemented safety and risk management systems can help you comply with local, state and federal PSM regulations, as well as minimize loss of life, environmental impact, equipment damage, citations and litigation.

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How We Can Help You

ioMosaic pioneered many of the current risk assessment techniques for processes that handle hazardous chemicals.

Our experts support every aspect to ensure that your facility runs safely and efficiently.

Expertise to help you minimize your exposure to fire, injury, property damage, and litigation.

Integrating best practices with cost-effective solutions to address program deficiencies.

Helping manage risk with facility siting studies, assessments and recommendations.

Senior knowledgeable engineers facilitate PHAs or DHAs in nearly all sectors of the process and processing industries.

Decades of experience leading incident investigations for process industry companies.

We prepare expert opinion reports and provide expert testimony for process incident cases.

Experienced engineers who have performed LOPAs on a wide range of facilities and terminals.

Our experts are at the forefront of pipeline Process Safety Management proficiency.

Proven track record of performing QRAs for facilities, pipelines and transportation routes.

Well versed in assisting global companies with their sustainability reporting communications.

Decades of experience mitigating hazards for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

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Featured Case Studies

 

Corporate Guidance On Risk Management

The chemical company of a large integrated energy company was developing a corporate standard for LOPA, which incorporated a risk ranking matrix. The company was interested in obtaining an independent review of the design of the risk matrix, and in benchmarking the underlying risk tolerability criteria with generally accepted industry norms.

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A large Canadian refinery was performing risk assessments to identify personnel, environmental, and operational hazards in order to satisfy legal and business requirements. This work was being done on a planned schedule, with each unit being reviewed annually. The challenge was to use Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) methodologies that provided an effective analysis appropriate to the particular unit to be studied and the potential hazards.
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When a tank car failed at a customer’s plant, a release of toxic gas occurred. Our client, the supplier of the chemical, was the subject of a class action lawsuit.
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A major pulp and paper manufacturing company in Mississippi determined that its process safety management (PSM) program had to do more than merely follow OSHA regulations; they wanted it to also be effective in preventing accidents.

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PSM Frequently Asked Questions

Does your facility need a PSM program? Is your PSM program effectively implemented?

If your facility uses, stores, manufactures, handles, or moves flammable or highly hazardous chemicals on site above the threshold quantity (TQ), OSHA does require PSM implementation. Learn the facts about process safety management.

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Our Team

Christian Sarno

Senior Safety and Risk Management Consultant

Mr. Sarno focuses on quantitative risk assessment (QRA) and facility siting for chemical companies. He also performs pressure relief and flare system (PRFS) design and analysis for large petrochemical corporations and utility companies. He has also acted as a process hazard analysis (PHA) leader and scribe for PHA revalidations for research and development-sized chemical processes. Mr. Sarno brings years of experience with Process Safety Office® SuperChems™ and Institute of Makers of Explosives Safety Analysis for Risk (IMESAFR) for QRA-based facility siting studies. He adheres to facility siting guidance as recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices (RAGAGEPs) from API 752, API 753, and Chemical Industries Association (CIA) to ensure compliance with the OSHA PSM Standard. Mr. Sarno is a member of the National Honor Society for Chemical Engineering, Omega Chi Epsilon and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Project Sampling

Performed QRA-based evaluation on hydrogen fluoride release mitigation systems for a petrochemical refinery facilities.

Performed QRA on a catalyst skid which included pyrophoric materials for a rubber manufacturing facility.

Performed QRA-based facility siting studies for five ammonium nitrate and explosives manufacturing facilities.

Performs PRFS evaluation and design projects for clients in the petrochemical and public utilities industries focused on the handling of anhydrous ammonia.

Audited power production facility to evaluate compliance with the OSHA PSM standard.

Performed a gap assessment on the ammonia processing equipment at a specialty chemical facility.

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
B.S. Chemical Engineering with a Minor in Economics

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Risk Considerations for Safe Process Design

Safe Design has Long Been a Priority in the Process Industries

Today, the process industries need to be certain that their stakeholders have confidence in how they manage the environmental, health, security, and safety implications of industrial activities. Read this white paper for a systematic, risk-based approach to safe design that can help to eliminate hazards that pose high risks from the process and help mitigate.

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Featured Services

Quantitative Risk Assessment

Proven track record of performing QRAs for refineries, chemical plants, LNG facilities, pipelines and transportation routes. Read more...

Hazard Analysis (PHA/DHA)

Senior knowledgeable engineers facilitate PHAs or DHAs in nearly all sectors of the process and processing industries, either hands-on or remotely. Read more...

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