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.
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.
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Decades of experience mitigating hazards for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
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.
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.
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.
Mr. Blake is skilled in process development and start-up of processes and equipment in pilot, semi-works, and production facilities. He has managed the design, fabrication, construction, installation, and commissioning of pilot plant facilities, and is also proficient in hazardous waste storage and management practices. Mr. Blake process safety and risk management experience includes over 12 years in the organic chemical processing industry and 16 years of consulting, primarily working with processes for the destruction of chemical weapons.
He is proficient in identifying common hazards, recommending safeguards and interpreting applicable standards. Mr. Blake is skilled in preparing Standard Operating Procedures and Equipment Operating Procedures. He has also developed and conducted training and testing of operators on new process safety management procedures. Mr. Blake has managed the review and coordinated the assembly and delivery of comments from various disciplines on fabrication drawings, test plans, test reports, safety reviews, and the overall conduct of testing programs. He is experienced in plant design and construction activities such as technical oversight of a facility’s design, construction, and systemization, risk analysis, and cost and schedule estimation/evaluations. Mr. Blake is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Facilitated numerous process hazard analyses (PHAs) using various hazard identification techniques, including HAZard and OPerability (HAZOP), layers of protection analysis (LOPA), pre-startup safety reviews (PSSR), What-if and Checklist techniques. Completed production of all Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) using AutoCAD to complete HAZOP investigations and to meet OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements. Experience in auditing organic chemical processing, explosive manufacturing, and power generation facilities to evaluate compliance with the OSHA PSM and EPA RMP standards. Evaluated designs, fabrication, and testing for various “first-of-a-kind” technologies and other equipment, which included munitions treatment and washout, projectile/mortar disassembly, continuous stream treater, metal parts treater, rocket cutting machine, and rocket shear machine. Designed and oversaw operations of processes that involved hazardous materials, including anhydrous ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, hydrochloric acid, formaldehyde, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, pyrophoric catalysts, known and suspected carcinogens, explosives, biological processing, cascade ventilation, evaporation, crystallization, and chemical neutralization. Participated in performance assessments and surveillances evaluating the completeness and adequacy of the construction and systemization processes of the systems contractor in support of the government.
Willey, R. J. and Blake D. J., “Gas Composition Measurements in Arc Heated Flowfields via Mass Spectrometry”. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 5, pp. 150-156, April-June 1991.
Northeastern University M.S. Chemical Engineering Northeastern University B.S.Chemical Engineering
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