Project management hazard analysis

As discussed in Chapter 2, most of the basic resources you will need are fairiy self-evident time of staff will almost certainly be the latgest single cost. Support expenses and travel also require funding. In addition, in the course of yourwork to date you may have identified specific resource requirements, such as computer software for hazard analysis or project management, or consulting services that fill in specific gaps in the knowledge base. 

William R. Rhyne received a B.S. in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee and M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Virginia. Dr. Rhyne is currently an independent consultant and earlier cofounded H R Technical Associates, Inc., where he remains a member of the board of directors. He has extensive experience in risk and safety analyses associated with nuclear and chemical processes and with the transport of hazardous nuclear materials and chemicals. From 1984 to 1987, he was the project manager and principal investigator for a probabilistic accident analysis of transporting obsolete chemical munitions. Dr. Rhyne has authored or coauthored numerous publications and reports in nuclear and chemical safety and risk analysis areas and is author of the book Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk Analysis Quantitative Approaches for Truck and Train. He is a former member of the NRC Transportation Research Board Hazardous Materials Committee, the Society for Risk Assessment, the American Nuclear... 

The Project Manager (or project, process, drilling, facility engineer) is the individual responsible for the accomplishment of the process hazard analysis. The process hazard analysis review should be considered part of a project just as an ordinary design review is. He is essentially the manager of the review and all other participants support his requests. 

The project manager is responsible that a process hazard analysis review has been performed for a project. In this respect the other team members provide support and assistance. The manager or engineer, directs and controls the other members as he would for any other aspect of the project or facility management. 

Usually process hazard analysis documentation costs are included as part of the project management administrative costs. 

In the aftermath of the Bhopal disaster, OSHA s Process Safety Management (PSM) has come into play and dictates the procedures to minimize the possibility of fire, explosion, or chemical release. If a project contains a regulated hazardous chemical, a process hazards analysis must be conducted to ensure that the likelihood of a fire, explosion, or release of hazardous chemicals is minimized and that equipment and facilities are included to minimize the effects of a fire, explosion, or release, if one does occur. 

The Project Manager is responsible for the implementation of the Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk Management Programs (RMP) and must appoint a qualified hazard study leader to conduct hazards evaluations and insure that the results are incorporated into the Process Hazards Analysis and Review. 

The control of chemical hazards at SNL is documented in the Primary Hazard Screen and Hazard Analysis process for every project or facility. Work-specific technical work documents provide more detailed chemical hazard controls. Hazard control is based on the hierarchy of controls engineering controls first, administrative controls next, and personal protective controls last. ES H subject matter experts provide input on appropriate controls to chemical users and their management. 

The majority of hazards will not be issues and will not typically benefit from routine weekly review by the project team. Hazards can, in the main, be seen as entities sitting in the background characterising the risk in the event than an incident was to occur. Their purpose is to focus and prioritise the development of controls during the CRM analysis and to demonstrate the practical measures that have been put in place to reduce the clinical risk to ALARP. In contrast, issues are problems which require active management - they need someone to take ownership and run with the task of fixing them. 

Once the hazards were identified, the severity of each hazard was evaluated by considering the worst-case loss associated with the hazard. In the example, the losses are evaluated for each of three categories humans (H), mission (M), and equipment (E). Initially, potential damage to the Earth and planet surface environment was included in the hazard log. In the end, the environment component was left out of the analysis because project managers decided to replace the analysis with mandatory compliance with NASA s planetary protection standards. A risk analysis can be replaced by a customer policy on how the hazards are to be treated. A more complete example, however, for a different system would normally include environmental hazards. 

Line management of the facility for which the hazards analysis was conducted, or the project manager if the analysis was for a facility in the design stage. 

Analytical trees can be used in a variety of ways in the system safety effort. The most common application of analytical trees in current system safety programs is probably the use of fault trees for fault tree analysis (FTA). However, analytical trees can also be used as planning tools, project description documents, status charts, and feeder documents for several hazard analysis techniques (including fault tree analysis). Analytical trees can be multipurpose, life cycle documents and represent one of the most useful tools available to managers, engineers, and safety professionals. 

A qualitative safety review methodology, primarily utilized in project management, to identify hazards in activities or systems, their probability of occurrence, and determine if protection measures are adequate. It is similar to a lob Safety Analysis. It is sometimes called a Danger Analysis, Safety Verification, or Preliminary Danger Analysis. 

If a facility does not have a SEMP or SEMS program, one of the first steps in the development of such a program is to conduct a Major Hazards Analysis (MHA). The purpose of this analysis is to identify those areas of the facility that pose the greatest risk. This type of analysis, which will be qualitative in nature, will show, for example, that the risers present a greater risk than the platform s gas compressors. Therefore, the initial focus of the risk management program should be on the risers. An MHA can also be carried out in the early stages of a project. 

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