Risk Assessment & Hazard Analysis Techniques in the Process Industry

April 24, 2013 Miami FL– Todays informative post in the Industrial Plant Safety blog will give you an idea about Risk Assessment in industry, especially the process industry. The Process Industry  covers a large range of industrial sectors such as  Petrochemicals, Chemicals, Oil and Gas, Fertilizers, Pulp and Paper, Food & Beverages, Pharmaceutical manufacturing and … Read more

LOPA-Layer of Protection Analysis technique

What is LOPA? In this short LOPA tutorial, we will understand the Layer of Protection Analysis technique or LOPA for short. So what does one mean by it? LOPA is used mainly in the process industries as a risk assessment tool. Every industrial process has a degree of risk associated with running it and this … Read more

What is HAZOP?

You must have come across the term HAZOP very often lately, as it has been in the news more often. HAZOP is an acronym which is short for Hazard and Operability study and it was first introduced many decades ago by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) of UK. ICI no longer exists today as ICI (various … Read more