• DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND STARTUP

  Designing the appropriate safety mechanisms to protect people, the environment, and assets throughout their life cycle.

  
  • Identifying and assessing risks
  • Specifying and designing safety mechanisms
  • Identifying critical tasks (emergency plan, procedures, training, audits, inspections and testing, document management, etc.)
  • Reporting and recording incidents
  • Identifying and investigating incidents
  • Improvement measures and lessons learned
  • Culture diagnostics
  • Managing contractors and suppliers
  • Maintenance
• OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

  Ensuring that all safety mechanisms are working properly to guarantee that when triggered they will work as they were designed to.

  
  • Identifying and assessing risks
  • Specifying and designing safety mechanisms
  • Identifying critical tasks (emergency plan, procedures, training, audits, inspections and testing, document management, etc.)
  • Reporting and recording incidents
  • Identifying and investigating incidents
  • Improvement measures and lessons learned
  • Culture diagnostics
  • Managing contractors and suppliers
  • Maintenance
  • Functioning of critical elements
  • Change management
• DISMANTLING

  Safely decommissioning process units or plants.

  
  • Identifying and assessing risks
  • Specifying and designing safety mechanisms
  • Identifying critical tasks (emergency plan, procedures, training, audits, inspections and testing, document management, etc.)
  • Reporting and recording incidents
  • Identifying and investigating incidents
  • Improvement measures and lessons learned
  • Culture diagnostics
  • Managing contractors and suppliers
  • Functioning of critical elements
  • Change management
  • Dismantling units and processes

• Identifying and assessing risks
• Specifying and designing safety mechanisms
• Identifying critical tasks (emergency plan, procedures, training, audits, inspections and testing, document management, etc.)
• Reporting and recording incidents
• Identifying and investigating incidents
• Improvement measures and lessons learned
• Culture diagnostics
• Managing contractors and suppliers
• Maintenance
• Functioning of critical elements
• Change management
• Dismantling units and processes

As a result of this way of managing risk, prevention and mitigation measures for potential unwanted events are established, focusing efforts on major accidents.

Prevention

Undesired Event

Mitigation

Examples of preventive measures

• Safe location: placing offices away from process units.
• Training workers on process safety.
• Alarm management and process monitoring.
• Emergency shutdown systems.
• Facility maintenance and inspections.

Examples of mitigation measures

• Containment systems such as tank bunds, drainage systems, and impoundment basins.
• Early detection systems (such as gas, liquid, fire, and dust detectors). Alarm and response systems such as emergency alarms, control panels, lights, sirens, and loudspeakers.
• Fire prevention systems such as hydrants, smoke detectors, sprinklers, foam and other extinguishers, mobile units, etc.
• Emergency plan.