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

Peter Stickles, P.E.

Principal Consultant

Mr. Stickles is a senior partner at ioMosaic Corporation and has over 50 years of experience in the fields of chemical process safety, petroleum refining and petrochemical technology, and process design having previously worked for Arthur D. Little, Inc., and Stone & Webster Engineering.

Prior to joining ioMosaic Corporation, Mr. Stickles’ roles in the process safety field have included facilitation of process hazard analyses, quantitative risk assessment, fault tree analysis, process safety management training course development, reliability analysis, and management of the process safety management business area for Arthur D. Little, Inc.

Experience Sampling

His knowledge ranges from relief system data gathering, isometric sketching, emergency relief system contingency analysis, and flare system evaluation. He has also analyzed maximizing existing flare and vent header systems utilizing risk-based applications of high integrity pressure protection systems (HIPPS).

Leading a QRA study of an LNG storage and re-vaporization facility located in Canada.

Evaluated the incident frequency of tube failures in black liquor boilers to assess the risk of boiler explosion.

Facilitated numerous process hazard analyses (PHAs) using various hazard identification techniques, including HAZard and OPerability (HAZOP), failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and What-if technique.

Team leader for environmental and safety performance review initiated by whistle blowers to the US Congress.

Major contributor on risk assessment for proposed reservoir development EIR in California State waters.

For Santa Barbara county, prepared qualitative risk assessment of the proposed extension of the inspection interval (Continuance of Departure) for the Hermosa-Gaviota Pt. Arguello Natural Gas Pipeline (PANGL), operated by Plains Exploration and Production Co. (PXP).

Major contributor on risk assessment of the Environmental Impact Report Risk of Upset Analysis for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to address oil and gas leasing and development on public lands and federal mineral estate in the Hollister Field Office (HFO).

Lead PHA of GasFrac™ fracturing technology for reservoir stimulation.

Developed and provided expert testimony on behalf of a major energy company before the Australian Royal Commission investigating the Longford Gas Plant explosion.

Prepared defense arguments for contractor M.W. Kellogg when they were implicated in the explosion of the polyethylene plant of Phillips Petroleum in Deer Park, Texas. Kellogg was eventually dropped as a defendant in the case.

Publication Sampling

Stickles, R. P., (co-author), “Portfolio Risk Management for Process Safety”. Proceedings of the 7th Global Congress on Process Safety, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Chicago, March 2011.

Stickles, R. P., (co-author), “Conducting Process Hazard Analyses for Dust-Handling Operations”. CEP, February 2009.

Stickles, R. P., (co-author), “Emergency Relief Systems under Fire Exposure”. Chemical Engineering Progress, Vol. 91, No. 1, 1995.

Education

Registered Professional Engineer, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Northeastern University,
M.S., Mechanical Engineering

Northeastern University
B.S., Chemical Engineering

Featured Resources

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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