Plant performance, analysis guidelines

Potential emergency situations may initially be identified by a properly performed Process Hazards Analysis (PHA). Other sources of potential events include incident reports as well as user or plant experience with similar processes or equipment at your plant or other plants. Various CCPS Guidelines contain additional information on process hazards analysis and quantitative risk analysis. ... 

This chapter provides general information for performing qualitative or quantitative risk assessments on buildings in process plants. For detailed guidance on risk assessment techniques, the user is referred to other CCPS books on this subject, including Reference 3, Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, Second Edition, and Reference 4, Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis. 

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