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Process Security Management
Description
Process security management addresses threats against
plants from terrorist and criminal acts that may deliberately cause harm
such as shutting down processes or the diversion or release of hazardous
materials. Facilities must ensure they are secure from such attacks.
Why Address Process Security Management?
The risk of attacks against process plants is real.
They represent attractive targets for terrorists and criminals. The
consequences of attacks can be catastrophic in human, environmental and
financial terms and the risk must be managed.
In the United States the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) has issued Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS)
that impose comprehensive security regulations for any facility that
manufactures, uses, stores, or distributes certain chemicals at or above
a specified quantity. The regulations use risk-based performance
standards that provide individual facilities with the flexibility to
address their unique security situations. The security measures needed
to satisfy the risk-based performance standards for each covered
facility correspond to the security risks presented by the facility.
Facilities that present a higher risk are required to meet more rigorous
risk-based performance standards.
The regulations require covered chemical facilities
to prepare Security Vulnerability Assessments (SVAs), which identify
facility security vulnerabilities, and to develop and implement Site
Security Plans (SSPs), which include measures that satisfy the
risk-based performance standards.
Why Primatech?
Primatech has developed a comprehensive process
security management program that addresses protection from physical and
cyber attacks. Primatech has developed approaches for threat and
vulnerability analysis and guidelines for the use of inherent security
measures. We have formulated model process security programs for various
threat levels that can be used as reference points for developing new
programs or improving existing ones. These approaches have been
published in periodicals and presented at conferences.
Services Offered
We develop a program to help reduce the likelihood
and severity of terrorist and criminal acts and integrate it with your
existing programs. We provide you with documentation of the program.
We facilitate SVAs for you facility and document the
results in a report.
We examine your facility to determine where
security weaknesses exist and where improvements may be needed. We
provide you with a report on the results of the assessment.
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Training Courses Offered By Primatech
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