Process Safety

DPS has extensive experience of Formal Process Safety Assessments. These include:

• HAZID (HAZard Identifiaction)
• HAZOP (HAZard in Operation)
• SWDS (Safe Working Design Study)
• HAZCON (HAZard in CONstruction)
• HAZDEM (HAZard in DEMolition)

Approved to chair FPSA the following types of meeting for

• Northern Gas Networks
• National Grid
• Cadent
• SGN

The application of Formal Process Safety Assessment techniques is essential from the design stage of new projects with major hazard potential to ensure appropriate levels of process safety.

The techniques are equally applicable during plant modifications. An FPSA is a planned and structured process which shows how all hazards and operability issues relating to an installation during its complete life cycle from design through to decommissioning are:

• - identified and
• - eliminated; or
• - reduced; or
• - controlled.