Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries: Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews

Dennis Nolan, drawing on decades of experience as a well-known safety author and senior loss prevention specialist at Saudi Aramco, provides the essential procedures and checklists in Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries. In addition to guiding the reader through the selection and execution of efficient and complete hazard analysis and safety reviews (such as HAZOP, PHA, What-If, SVA, LOPA, Bowtie), Nolan shares his personal experience and illustrates procedures with real-world examples.

Updated throughout to reflect changing practices, the fourth edition expands its scope to include maintenance, exploratory drilling, and governmental regulation updates. It adds best practice guidelines on CHAZOP reviews, expands on threats in the security vulnerability analysis, and includes more information on chemical process facilities and hydrocarbon/chemical plant safeguards.

Up-to-date form templates and “what-if” checklists are also available for purchasers of the book to download, making this a complete safety review toolkit.

Helps you to achieve compliance and avoid disasters: provides the checklists and best-practice guidance needed to negotiate the labyrinth of hazard analysis and safety review proceduresKeeps your knowledge up-to-date: coverage of the latest forms of hazard analysis and safety review, including LOPA and BowtieSaves time and money: demonstrates how each of the typically required reviews is related, so that information and conclusions used on one may be transferred or adapted for another

1. Purpose 2. Scope 3. Objective and Description of PHA, What-If and HAZOP Reviews 4. Adaptation to Security Vulnerability Analysis (SVA) 5. Specialized Reviews – Bow-Tie Analysis, Layers of Protection Analysis, and Safety Integrity Levels 6. Team Members, Qualifications, and Responsibilities 7. Management Support and Responsibilities 8. Review Applications for Typical Facilities 9. Review Procedures 10. Review Worksheets 11. Report Preparation and Distribution 12. Handling and Resolution of Recommendations 13. Schedule and Cost Estimates