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.
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.
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.
Understanding the likelihood and potential for raw materials to interact unintentionally in multipurpose equipment is key for process safety risk identification and management efforts. Read this white paper for guidance that can help you to better understand your organization’s potential vulnerabilities related to chemical reactivity hazards.
Although most companies that handle hazardous materials have implemented process safety management (PSM) systems, they are still having accidents. These same companies have good audit programs that verify compliance and implementation of good management systems, but hardly any look at the quality of the audited programs. A company can have a PSM program that meets regulatory requirements, but is not effective in preventing accidents. Having a good management system in place may help, but is still not enough. The problem is the quality of many PSM programs is poor and there is no mechanism in the audit program to identify these quality issues. For example, after an accident has occurred, how often do you find that your process hazard analysis failed to identify the actual or similar scenario, concluded that there were adequate controls in place, or failed to follow-up on recommendations that might have mitigated the accident? Identifying quality issues in PSM systems is difficult, because it requires that the auditor have considerable experience in the PSM elements being audited and it is more time consuming than a typical compliance audit. However, given the extensive resources that most companies have already spent in developing their PSM programs, it makes sense to make sure that they are not only in compliance, but also effective in preventing accidents.
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