Process safety
Process safety
Safety is key in all of our processes and operations
Safety is key in all of our processes and operations
We manage process safety throughout the whole life cycle of our activities, from the moment when a plant or process is being designed until it is dismantled, integrating risk management into all our operations and throughout our value chain.
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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
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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
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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.
PreventionUndesired Event
Mitigation
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Updated as of August 2026