Safety and security review for the process industries: application of HAZOP, PHA and What-If and SVA reviews

Content: Front-matter , Pages i,iii Copyright , Page iv Dedication , Page v Preface , Page xiii Acknowledgments , Page xv About the Author , Page xvii Chapter 1 - Purpose , Pages 1-4 Chapter 2 - Scope , Pages 5-6 Chapter 3 - Objective and Description of PHA, What-If, and HAZOP Reviews , Pages 7-12 Chapter 4 - Adaptation to Security Vulnerability Analysis , Pages 13-15 Chapter 5 - Specialized Reviews—Bow-Tie Analysis, Layers of Protection Analysis, and Safety Integrity Levels , Pages 17-23 Chapter 6 - Team Members, Qualifications, and Responsibilities , Pages 25-37 Chapter 7 - Management Support and Responsibilities , Pages 39-40 Chapter 8 - Review Applications for Typical Facilities , Pages 41-46 Chapter 9 - Review Procedures , Pages 47-77 Chapter 10 - Review Worksheets , Pages 79-86 Chapter 11 - Report Preparation and Distribution , Pages 87-91 Chapter 12 - Handling and Resolution of Recommendations , Pages 93-97 Chapter 13 - Schedule and Cost Estimates , Pages 99-105 Appendix A - Typical Company Policy Statement , Page 107 Appendix B - Quality Assurance Audit Checklist , Page 109 Appendix C - Probability, Severity, Risk, and Risk-Acceptance Tables , Pages 111-113 Appendix D - PHA and What-If Checklist Questions , Pages 115-132 Appendix E - HAZOP Parameters, Deviations, and Possible Causes , Pages 133-141 List of Acronyms , Pages 143-144 Glossary , Pages 145-149 Bibliography , Pages 151-152 Index , Pages 153-158 Drawing on decades of industry experience, well-known safety author and senior Loss Prevention specialist at Saudi Aramco Dennis Nolan has distilled the essential procedures and checklists into this practical guide. As well as guiding the reader through the selection and efficient and complete execution of the alphabet soup of Hazard Analysis and Safety Reviews (HAZOP, PHA, What-IF, SVA, LOPA, Bowtie ...), Nolan shares his personal experience and illustrates otherwise dry procedures with real-world examples. Written from the perspective of the author's extensive experience in loss prevention and safety engineering, this comprehensive manual is intended to provide guidance on all the qualitative hazard analyses conducted for industrial and commercial processes, specifically for Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), What-If, and Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) review teams. It also demonstrates how the methodology and procedures used for these reviews can be adopted and applied to the Security Vulnerability Analysis (SVA) and Site Security Plan (SSP), requirements under the US Department of Homeland Security's Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard (CFATS) of 2007. The book's pragmatic approach describes the responsibilities, methods, and documentation required for the performance of such procedures and demonstrates how to conduct them in a timely, effective, objective, and consistent manner as may be prescribed by a company's Process Safety Management (PSM) policy and security requirements. As well as updates throughout to reflect changing practices, the third edition incorporates a new section on cost/benefit analysis and descriptions of new qualitative and quantitative safety reviews such as LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) and Bow-Tie (a graphical alternative to HAZOP) and a new chapter to address revalidation of studies/reports after 5 years. As well as providing invaluable personal insights from his career in the process industries, Dennis Nolan has also added a wealth of new real-world examples, bringing the form-filling to life. And for the first time, the forms and checklists are available for purchasers of the book to download - making this a complete safety review toolkit. Helps you to achieve compliance and avoid disasters: Dennis Nolan combines his extensive personal experience with relevant industry examples to provide the checklists and best-practice guidance needed to negotiate the labyrinth of Hazard Analysis and Safety Review procedures. Keeps your knowledge up-to-date: Coverage of the latest forms of Hazard Analysis and Safety Review, including LOPA and Bowtie Saves time ... and money: Demonstrates how each of the typically required reviews is related, so that information and conclusions used on one may be transferred or adapted for another. Also helps you avoid the fines associated with non-compliance, e.g. fines of up to $25k per day imposed by the Department of Homeland Security in the USA for non-compliance with the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard (CFATS)

Written from the perspective of the author’s extensive experience in loss prevention and safety engineering, this comprehensive manual is intended to provide guidance on all the qualitative hazard analyses conducted for industrial and commercial processes, specifically for Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), What-If, and Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) review teams. It also demonstrates how the methodology and procedures used for these reviews can be adopted and applied to the Security Vulnerability Analysis (SVA) and Site Security Plan (SSP), requirements under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard (CFATS) of 2007. The book’s pragmatic approach describes the responsibilities, methods, and documentation required for the performance of such procedures and demonstrates how to conduct them in a timely, effective, objective, and consistent manner as may be prescribed by a company’s Process Safety Management (PSM) policy and security requirements.

Helps you to achieve compliance and avoid disasters: Dennis Nolan combines his extensive personal experience with relevant industry examples to provide the checklists and best-practice guidance needed to negotiate the labyrinth of Hazard Analysis and Safety Review procedures.

Keeps your knowledge up-to-date: Coverage of the latest forms of Hazard Analysis and Safety Review, including LOPA and Bowtie

Saves time... and money: Demonstrates how each of the typically required reviews is related, so that information and conclusions used on one may be transferred or adapted for another. Also helps you avoid the fines associated with non-compliance, e.g. fines of up to $25k per day imposed by the Department of Homeland Security in the USA for non-compliance with the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard (CFATS).

Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries: Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews, Third Edition, describes the responsibilities, methods, and documentation required for the performance of qualitative hazard analysis for industrial and commercial processes, specifically Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), What-If, and Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) reviews. It is a guideline and reference book that explains how the methodology and procedures used for these reviews can be adopted and applied for Security Vulnerability Analysis (SVA) to avoid the major risks that have the potential to severely impact the industry. Organized into 13 chapters, the book relies mainly on practices commonly observed in the petroleum, chemical, and petrochemical industries. It begins with an overview of PHA, What-If, and HAZOP reviews, including their limitations and advantages. It then moves into a discussion of safety reviews that are increasingly used in the process industries: Bow-Tie Analysis (BTA), Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA), and Safety Integrity Level (SIL). The book looks at review team members, their qualifications and responsibilities, and senior management support and responsibilities for the safety and security of a facility. The reader is also introduced to review procedures and worksheets, review applications, preparation and distribution of the study report, and handling and resolution of recommendations. The book concludes by explaining the estimation of review scheduling and cost. This book will serve as a reminder to members of PHA, What-If, and HAZOP review teams about their duties and responsibilities. Content: Front-matter, __Pages i,iii__Copyright, __Page iv__Dedication, __Page v__Preface, __Page xiii__Acknowledgments, __Page xv__About the Author, __Page xvii__Chapter 1 - Purpose, __Pages 1-4__Chapter 2 - Scope, __Pages 5-6__Chapter 3 - Objective and Description of PHA, What-If, and HAZOP Reviews, __Pages 7-12__Chapter 4 - Adaptation to Security Vulnerability Analysis, __Pages 13-15__Chapter 5 - Specialized Reviews—Bow-Tie Analysis, Layers of Protection Analysis, and Safety Integrity Levels, __Pages 17-23__Chapter 6 - Team Members, Qualifications, and Responsibilities, __Pages 25-37__Chapter 7 - Management Support and Responsibilities, __Pages 39-40__Chapter 8 - Review Applications for Typical Facilities, __Pages 41-46__Chapter 9 - Review Procedures, __Pages 47-77__Chapter 10 - Review Worksheets, __Pages 79-86__Chapter 11 - Report Preparation and Distribution, __Pages 87-91__Chapter 12 - Handling and Resolution of Recommendations, __Pages 93-97__Chapter 13 - Schedule and Cost Estimates, __Pages 99-105__Appendix A - Typical Company Policy Statement, __Page 107__Appendix B - Quality Assurance Audit Checklist, __Page 109__Appendix C - Probability, Severity, Risk, and Risk-Acceptance Tables, __Pages 111-113__Appendix D - PHA and What-If Checklist Questions, __Pages 115-132__Appendix E - HAZOP Parameters, Deviations, and Possible Causes, __Pages 133-141__List of Acronyms, __Pages 143-144__Glossary, __Pages 145-149__Bibliography, __Pages 151-152__Index, __Pages 153-158__