Process Risk and Reliability Management

Process Risk and Reliability Management. DOI http //dx.doi.Org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801653-4.00005-9... 

During Phase IV, the operating and maintenance procedures will be written, and the technicians trained in their use. Guidance as to the writing of procedures and the development of training programs is provided in Process Risk and Reliability Management. 

Since those early days, the management of safety on process facilities has matured and improved dramatically. Also PSM is now typically seen as being part of the bigger picture of risk management, covering not just safety but also environmental performance, quality, production, and productivity. Therefore, in the year 2010 the book was greatly expanded and renamed Process Risk and Reliability Management. 

This edition of Process Risk and Reliability Management is organized into four sections with a total of 20 chapters, as shown below ... 

This book has been written both for those who design offshore facilities and those who operate and maintain them. The focus of the book is on the management of offshore safety. Another book in this series, Process Risk and Reliability Management, provides detailed information on the technical aspects of safety management. 

This book does not provide detailed guidance to do with implementing the elements. Such guidance can be found in the first edition of Process Risk and Reliability Management. Table 5.3 shows which chapters of that book address these topics. 

Many books and papers, including Process Risk and Reliability Management, explain the various types of hazards analysis techniques that are used. A very brief overview of some of the techniques that are used offshore is provided in this section. 

Detailed guidance to do with the planning and conduct of audits is provided in the book Process Risk and Reliability Management. The material provided here is specific to the audits of offshore oil and gas facilities. 

An overview of Formal Safety Analysis is provided here. Greater detail for most of the topics is provided in the book entitled Process Risk and Reliability Management. There are books, often very large books, written on each of the topics that make up this chapter. 

Sutton, I., 2010b. Process Risk and Reliability Management. Elsevier, Oxford, England. 

Another book in this series is called Process Risk and Reliability Management. It describes the development and application of process safety management systems in detail. Therefore, rather than repeat the contents of that book... 

An Operational Readiness/Prestartup Safety Review may be needed, particularly if the design of the system was changed in any way or if process conditions will change following the maintenance work. For large maintenance tasks, a turnover package may be required. (Information on these topics is provided in Process Risk and Reliability Management.)... 

It is essential that all incidents are reported promptly, and in detail—even those that have only minor consequences or that are first aid cases or that are near misses. In the United States, incidents that meet the OSHA guidelines for recordability must also be documented and reported. (The topics of Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis are discussed in Process Risk and Reliability Management). 

In effect, workers are treated as being components in a system, just like equipment items. Hence the THERP analysis can be integrated into probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) analyses—particularly fault and event trees—topics that are discussed in depth in Process Risk and Reliability Management. A THERP analysis is most effective when the tasks are routine and proceduralized, and when the persons involved are not under stress. 

The phase-gate approach to project management is described in Process Risk and Reliability Management. Human factors issues are generally addressed in the first three phases of a project. 

Firefighting is just one part of the overall topic of emergency management, the principles of which are discussed in Process Risk and Reliability Management. The Table of Contents for that chapter is given in Table 9.1. 

Detailed information to do with toxic gas terminology and the effects of these gases on the human body are provided in Process Risk and Reliability Management Much of the guidance to do with flammable detectors can be applied to toxic gas detection also. However, the following additional issues should be considered ... 

At about the same time as Mr. Friedman made the above remark, the author of this book was putting the final touches to his book Process Hazards Analysis (the contents of which are now incorporated into Process Risk and Reliability Management), a basic premise which is that everyone wants process plants to be safe. Although the book was going to the printers at the time of the attacks, there was time to add the following words to the Preface on September 20, 2001. 

An extended discussion of these techniques is provided Chapter 3 of Process Risk and Reliability Management... 

Sutton, Ian. 2010a. Behavior-hased Safety, www.stb07.com/occupational-safety/behavior-based-safety.html. Sutton, Ian S. 2010b. Process Risk and Reliability Management. Elsevier, Oxford, England. 

This book should be read in conjtmction with Process Risk and Reliability Management, published by Elsevier in 2010. That book provides much more detail regarding the implementation and management of the elements of SEMS such as operating procedures and mechanical integrity. 

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