Process Safety Management Mechanical Integrity

Personnel changes include the facility manager and all other positions in the functions of operations, emergency response, process safety and mechanical integrity, and EHS. 

Implementing an inherent safety review process is one mechanism companies can use to institutionalize inherent safety. The review process should integrate well with company systems for process safety management, new product development, and project execution. Safety, health, and environmental considerations in the new product or process development effort can be strengthened via the introduction of the inherent safety review. Companies may also build inherently safer design concepts into their existing process safety management system and process hazard reviews. 

Water and steam are nearly always present in most chemical processes. Their physical properties are generally well understood. Process perils are sometimes related to the infamous deeds of water and steam. The thrust of OSHAs Process Safety Management Law of 1992 focused on the processes that handled a list of 140 highly hazardous chemicals as well as processes that contained an over 10,000 pounds (4,540 kg) of flammable liquids or gases. Even after those chemicals are handled with higher levels of mechanical integrity and additional scrutiny, we will still need to keep our eye on water and its sometimes evil twin, steam. 

All activities required for process safety management, such as process hazard analysis, mechanical integrity, incident and near-miss investigations, and management of change... 

Department manager Engineering Mechanical integrity Customers (internal) Employees Contractors Co-workers EHS manager Process safety manager Human resource manager Union representative... 

OSHA s Process Safety Management standard requires that mechanical integrity inspections have to be documented (including the name of the person performing the inspection or test) and list the information to be recorded. 

Management of functional safety in this company is implemented under the Process Safety Management (PSM) program. Extensive corporate standards address all aspects of PSM, such as mechanical integrity, quality assurance, and training. These standards require that all new projects implemented at company manufacturing facilities comply with the requirements of ISA-84.01-2004 where applicable. 

Process integrity addresses the reactions, physical chemistry, and dynamics of a plant s operation. If these are allowed to mn out of control or exceed standards, process conditions may exceed the mechanical design limits of the equipment. Some of the following approaches and methods used to assure process integrity are described in Guidelines for Technical Management of Chemical Process Safety (CCPS, 1989b) ... 

Personnel responsible for mechanical integrity (MI), management of change (MOC), and other elements of the process safety system who can use metrics to measure the performance of their systems ... 

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