

Elements of Process Safety

Commitment to Process Safety


Understand Hazard and Risk


Manage Risk


Learn From Experience


Process Safety Technical Areas

Technical excellence must underpin a solid process safety management program. Sound design and analysis and continual advancement in technology are key.

Venting and Emergency Relief


Process Safety in Upstream Processes

Safe, optimal production of natural resources, such as oil and gas, from reservoirs and delivering them to downstream entities requires applying chemical engineering fundamentals and principles as well as the 20 elements of Risk Based Process Safety.

Safe Design


Safety Instrumentation Systems 

Safety instrumentation systems can help companies achieve risk reduction and incident prevention. A safety instrumented system (SIS) takes automated action to keep a plant in a safe state, or to put it into a safe state, when abnormal conditions are present. The SIS may implement a single function or multiple functions to protect against various process hazards in your plant.

Process Safety R & D

Focuses on the process safety of research and development facilities of companies/plants and as well as the research development to advance the practice of process safety. 

Human Factors and Culture


Dust Explosion Hazards

Most solid materials that can be ignited can form an explosive dust cloud if the particle size of the solid is small enough. Special attention should be pay to identification of accumulation of dust and powders in plants and to specified safe operating procedures for handling powders and dusts.

Consequence Modeling


Chemical Reactivity Hazards

Chemical reactivity hazards relate to the potential for an uncontrolled chemical reaction that can directly or indirectly causing serious harm to people, property, or the environment. Reactivity hazards include runaway reactions, instable chemicals, and inadvertent reactions such as could occur by accidentally mixing incompatible materials. Chemical reactivity is most commonly accompanied by a temperature increase, pressure increase, gas evolution, or other form of energy release. 

Process Safety for Bioprocesses

Bioprocessing is a business segment that, like any other, has traditional fiscal risks but then adds unique chemical and biological hazard-based risks related to raw materials involved, product made, process used, waste stream involved and unique end user considerations. Effective process safety management in bioprocess manufacturing is essential to the growth of an already booming segment of global manufacturing. 

Chemical Security


Transportation Safety

Considerations for transportation security, including threat and vulnerability assessments and potential countermeasures. Also includes risk assessment programs for land transport by rail, truck, and pipeline for consequences that may affect the public or the environment.