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.
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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.
Despite their benefits, biogas facilities face significant safety challenges. Over 160 accidents have been documented from 1995 to 2014, primarily involving fires, explosions, and the release of hazardous gases. Read this white paper to understand the consequences of a loss of containment incident for a biogas tank and see examples of process safety modeling.
Runaway reactions leading to catastrophic events continue to occur in multipurpose equipment. Examples of causes that can lead to such catastrophic events include but are not limited to: (a) failure to identify and quantify runaway reactions hazards, (b) undersized pressure relief systems for unintended chemical reactions, (c) improper equipment selection and design, (d) cooling systems that are susceptible to single point failure, (e) process knowledge management, (f) management of organizational change and succession planning, and (g) deficient process safety information. Many bench scale chemists developing new processes do not fully understand scaleup. Scaling up from a flask where heat exchange or loss is excellent and sufficient at laboratory scale can lead to near adiabatic conditions in large scale equipment and runaway reactions. A small exotherm at laboratory scale can yield a significant runaway reaction at pilot or plant scale. Because of the focus on process development of intended chemistries, unintended chemistries are often not quantified properly or overlooked. Research and development organizations need to collaborate with production facilities to understand what are the “unintended reactions” that could occur at pilot or plant scale. It is not uncommon to have multiple raw materials, for a variety of products, all to be hard piped to the same vessel. Understanding the likelihood and potential for each of those raw materials to interact unintentionally in multipurpose equipment is key for process safety risk identification and management efforts. A simple skipped water charge, may be the worst case scenario resulting in an unintended runaway chemical reaction. In addition, organizations are also challenged to properly manage their knowledge for high hazard chemistries. With organizational change happening much more frequently nowadays, it is even more essential that once a hazard is identified, the knowhow is properly managed and available independent of current staffing. Knowledge Management is a huge gap in numerous organizations, especially small and medium size enterprises. Although many organizations can be vulnerable to such catastrophic events, they have not taken sufficient and proper steps to identify and truly understand chemical reactivity hazards. This paper provides guidance that can help you to better understand your organization’s potential vulnerabilities that are related to chemical reactivity hazards.
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