• 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
  • Investigating incidents
  • Improvement measures and lessons learned
  • 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
  • Investigating incidents
  • Improvement measures and lessons learned
  • 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
  • Investigating incidents
  • Improvement measures and lessons learned
  • 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
• Investigating incidents
• Improvement measures and lessons learned
• Maintenance
• Functioning of critical elements
• Change management
• Dismantling units and processes

This process includes the application of our methodology for preventing and mitigating incidents which is implemented throughout the entire operation phase.

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.