Hazard management process

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CLOSED-LOOP HAZARD MANAGEMENT PROCESS... 

System safety concepts promote the establishment of policies and procedures that are to achieve an effective, orderly and continuous hazards management process for the design, development, installation, and maintenance, of all facilities, materials, hardware, equipment, tooling, and products, and for their eventual disposal. 

Figure 6-9, below, depicts the CSA, Risk Assessment and Management Process, including the hazard management process and the identified dependencies and the deliverables. The process is heterogeneous and adaptive to any system and encapsulates following activities, dependences/iiqtuts and deliverables ... 

To demonstrate that the risks associated with the hazards introduced to the SSL and VL railways have been reduced to ALARP and tolerable, a robust hazard management process has been implemented. In addition, a clear relationship has been estabhshed between the Hazard Logs at the System (Programme), Subsystem (Project or Project Portfoho) and the Constituent (Suppher) level, and has in turn been documented thus aiming to adequately manage the hazards introduced to the operational railway as a result of the upgrade programmes. 

However, it can be complex as a full hazard management process is required, and the project must use two different development methodologies with the SIL development activities kept separate from the commercial ones. 

Drake, E. M. and C. W. Thurston. 1992. A Safety Evaluation Eramework for Process Hazards Management in Chemical Eacilities with PES-Based Controls. Process Safety Management Paper 73d. AlChL 1992 Summer National Meeting, August 1992, Minneapolis, MN. 

Process Safety Management (PSM) A program or activity involving the application of management principles and analytical techniques to ensure the safety of chemical process facilities. Sometimes called process hazard management. Each principle is often termed an element or component of process safety. 

E. N. Helmets and L. C. Schaller, Calculated Process Risks and Hazards Management, Plant/Operations Progress, 14, No. 4 (October), 229-31, 1995. 

All hoses should be inspected and tested regularly and marked to show that they have been approved for use. A good practice is to change the color of the label every 6 or 12 months. This incident is a good illustration of the way both operators and managers become so used to the hazards of process materials that they fail to establish and maintain proper precautions. How often had the wrong... 

Prevention Program —Management System —Process Hazards Analysis —Process Safety Information —Standard Operating Procedures —Training... 

Because generators are the first step in the RCRA system, it is important that they properly classify and identify their waste to ensure proper handling later in the hazardous waste management process. 

Munson, R. E., "Process Hazards Management in DuPont," Plant/Operations Progress, 4 (1985). 

Dupont Chemicals, Dupont Safety and Fire Protection Guideline Use of Process Risk Calculations in Hazards Management. Dupont, Wilmington, DL, 1981. 

Using lists of chemicals is an inadequate approach for regulatory coverage of reactive hazards. Improving reactive hazard management requires that both regulators and industry address the hazards from combinations of chemicals and process-specific conditions rather than focus exclusively on the inherent properties of individual chemicals. (CSB 2002b)1... 

Appendices contain case histories of chemical reactivity incidents, a sample inherently safer process checklist, and the Executive Summary of the CSB hazard investigation report on "Improving Reactive Hazard Management (CSB 2002b). 

Shutting down a process, either for an indefinite period of time or permanently, can introduce chemical reactivity hazard management considerations. For example, one facility wanted to dismantle some equipment for a process for which an ether was a feedstock. A review of facility records did not conclusively reveal whether the equipment had been thoroughly decontaminated after the process was shut down years before. This left open the possibility that the equipment might contain explosive peroxides that could have formed over time by peroxidation of the ether. In another example, an unstable byproduct exploded when piping removed from a process unit was being cut into smaller pieces for disposal. 

Identify Chemical Reactivity Hazards Process Risk Management Process Hazard Analysis Identification of Major Hazards... 

Document Chemical Reactivity Risks and Management Decisions Process Knowledge and Documentation Process Risk Management Process Safety Information Process Hazard Analysis Operating Procedures Operational Control... 

A comprehensive system to manage process hazards should also have other elements, in addition to those listed in Table 2.1. As such, Table 2.2 lists elements included in CCPS, OSHA/EPA, and Seveso II programs that are not explicitly addressed in this publication. This is not intended to imply that these other elements are unimportant. For example, all facilities handling hazardous materials and energies should engage in emergency... 

This section provides guidance for creating the element of a chemical reactivity hazard management system that will ensure the capture and retention of safety-related process knowledge and documentation. The components of this element are ... 

Companies with strong chemical reactivity hazard management programs should strive to benefit from the latest advances in process safety technology, and keep abreast of technological advances through active participation in professional and trade associations. 

This report, Hazard Investigation Improving Reactive Hazard Management, by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), examines chemical process safety in the United States—specifically, hazardous chemical reactivity. Its objectives are to ... 

Several voluntary industry initiatives, such as ACC s Responsible Care and NACD s Responsible Distribution Process (RDP), provide guidance on process safety management for chemical manufacturers and distributors. However, no voluntary industry initiatives list specific codes or requirements for reactive hazard management. 

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