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Guidelines for PHA, Hazards Identification & Risk Analysis |
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This unique manual is a comprehensive and truly easy-to-read overview of hazards analysis as it applies to the process and allied industries. The Guidelines provide practical guidance to both the novice and seasoned risk professional and are also a useful adjunct to Dyadem's very widely used PHA-ProŽ software. It was written by Nigel Hyatt, who is recognized as a leading authority on risk analysis.
Nigel is a professional engineer with more than 35 years of industrial experience in Hazards Analysis, Assessment and Risk Management and Process Design and Development in a number of areas including Petrochemical/Refinery/Offshore Oil Production/Chemical/ Environmental/ Power/Biochemical and Food Industries.
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This comprehensive work covers a wide range of topics including risk concepts, incidents, regulatory developments, risk terminology and process hazards and risk management alternatives. The Guidelines provide solid advice on organizing and setting up Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) sessions, PHA team leadership, estimating the time required for PHAs and managing recommendations. Both the novice and the seasoned risk professional will find the practical guidance in these guidelines both easily accessible and useful.
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Topics of interest also include:
- Analysis and guidelines of different types of PHA', including HAZOP, "What if," Checklist, Preliminary Hazards Analysis and FMEA, together with advice on when and how to use them and guidance against pitfalls
- How to allocate and size nodes for PHAs
- Managing and Justifying PHA Recommendations
- Loss of containment calculation methodologies
- Method for creating PHA checklists
- Different types of HAZOPs, including method for deriving deviations from first principles
- Revalidation of PHAs and Management of Change (MOC) cases requiring PHA
- Guidance on safeguarding in relation to administrative and engineering controls
- Layout and siting considerations, especially in relation process plant buildings
- Human factors and their role in reducing risk
- Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA), Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) and Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), consequence modeling with an introduction to fault and event trees
- Software demonstration samples featuring PHA software from Dyadem
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