TEAM MEMBERS, QUALIFICATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Review team members or consultants retained to support a review should be chosen that are intimately familiar with the hydrocarbon or chemical processes under examination. For example a crude separation operator should not be chosen to support a review of a refinery gas plant, however he could serve as a reviewer for another crude separation unit. The typical review team should also have a balanced number of individuals from different organizations such as company employees, consultants, equipment fabricators, etc. Hopefully one group s self interest should not be able to outweigh and unduly sway the entire groups outlook. 

Three types of individuals are needed to support a process hazard analysis, (1) a leader, 

Using this philosophy the following five personnel are considered to be the minimum required individuals needed in order to accomplish a successful HAZOP or What-If 

Project Manager (Project, Process, Drilling or Facility Engineer) 

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. 

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A validation team member from the Production department is responsible to participate in performing the validation steps during manufacturing processes and equipment qualification. This department should prepare the necessary SOPs for the new process or equipment and assist in the collection of validation data. 

In this clause participants in HAZOP are discussed. The responsibility, qualification, and experience of each of the team members are discussed here. However, this is a general guideline based on company policy and plant requirements the team formation may vary. In this connection generalized citation in Fig. IV/1.1.4-1 may be referred to. 

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