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Process
Hazard Analysis
Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) studies
are the foundation for process safety and risk management of highly
hazardous process systems. They help companies identify hazard scenarios
that could adversely affect people, property, or the environment.
Companies that handle or process hazardous chemicals have a
responsibility to protect employees, the public and the environment from
exposure to accidental releases.
Considering the complexity of today's
chemical processes, the challenges involved in facilitating a PHA study,
and the potential liabilities from an incident, your best option for
completing PHAs may be to seek the assistance of expert specialists.
Services Offered
Primatech uses predictive PHA
techniques and methodologies such as Hazard and Operability Studies
(HAZOP), What-If Studies, and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
and Major Hazard Analysis (MHA). Primatech provides a team leader or
facilitator to work with a group of people from the facility to conduct
the PHA. We document the PHA study findings and prepare a report on the
study. We can also provide a scribe to assist with study documentation,
if desired by the client.
We facilitate both initial PHAs and
revalidations of existing PHAs.
Primatech's PHA Team Leader:
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prepares for the study
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advises on the selection
of team members and methodology and the definition of study scope
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oversees the team's
brainstorming of causes and consequences of possible accidents and
the formulation of recommendations for appropriate corrective
actions.
We utilize Primatech's software
product PHAWorks in
conducting and documenting studies. Hazard scenarios caused by equipment
failures, human errors and external events are considered. Safeguards,
facility siting and human factors issues are discussed and their impact
on safety identified.
Primatech has conducted PHAs for a
wide variety of facilities, and has completed literally thousands of
PHAs using such techniques as HAZOP, What-If, What-If Checklists, FMEA,
Fault Tree Analysis, etc.
Primatech has also trained thousands
of people in PHA including regulators from OSHA, EPA and state agencies.
Primatech develops and markets the world's leading
PHA software, PHAWorks. The
use of this program enhances the team leader's ability to conduct the
analysis efficiently. The software is designed to allow the team leader
to function as both facilitator and scribe, thereby eliminating the need
for a separate scribe and reducing the cost of the study.
Primatech provides the following training
courses on PHA
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