Fire Protection Engineering Role

FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERING ROLE/DESIGN TEAM... 

He is currently associated with the Occidental Petroleum Corporation as corporate-wide Risk Engineering Advisor, with previous roles as Facilities Engineering Advisor and Senior Fire Protection Engineer. He has also been associated with Lockheed, Marathon Oil and Boeing in various risk and safety roles. 

USE Professionals—Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Professionals provide technical guidance to engineers and typically are in an assurance role for fire protection systems. 

In hazardous industries, human actions may determine whether a major accident can be avoided or not. In this Section, we will look closer into the role of the operators in the control of major accidents. We have in Chapter 7 identified the different barriers applied in the prevention of fires and explosions in a plant for processing of hydrocarbons. They represent an engineering solution, based on the defences-in-depth philosophy. The idea is to minimise the system s vulnerability to human and technical errors by providing independent and diverse layers of protection. Whereas the operator has a distinct role in maintaining production, the safety systems will take over in cases where the system transgresses certain defined limits. There are many examples, however, where these different barriers are dependent on and vulnerable to operator actions. 

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