Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries, 4th Edition

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 procedures
• Keeps your knowledge up-to-date: coverage of the latest forms of hazard analysis and safety review, including LOPA and Bowtie
• Saves 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

Table of Contents

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

Appendix A Typical Company Policy Statement
Appendix B Quality Assurance Audit Checklist
Appendix C Probability, Severity, Risk and Risk Acceptance Tables
Appendix D Common PHA and What-If/Checklist Questions
Appendix E HAZOP Parameters, Deviations, and Possible Causes