Estudio Hazop

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Purpose This publication is intended to provide guidance to HAZOP (Hazard and Operability) and What-If review teams associated with the petroleum and chemical industries. It describes thenature, responsibilities, methods and documentation required in the performance of such reviews. This ensures the reviews are conducted in a timely, effective and professional manner as may be prescribedby a company’s Process Safety Management (PSM) Policy. The safety of process facilities is an important part of a company’s operations. Recent worldwide petrochemical safety regulations and acompany’s own process safety management policies would require that a process hazard analysis (PHA) review of it’s The limits of hazardous substances existing and proposed operations be accomplished. cited byboth the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations dictate the application of process safety management elements at almost allof a petroleum or chemical company’s facilities. These reviews are intended to reduce the probability and/or consequences of a major incident that would have a detrimental impact to the employees, thepublic’s well being, onsite or offsite properties, the environment, and most important to a company itself, its continued business operation and survival. It should also be noted there may be ageneral adverse public reaction and therefore a company’s prestige may suffer. Process hazard analysis reviews are not intended to identify the minor “slips, trips, or falls”, these are the responsibilityof the company’s general safety requirements and are well established. The process hazard analysis is looking for the major incidents which have the potential for severe impacts. HAZOP and What-Ifreviews are two of the most common petrochemical industry qualitative methods used to conduct process hazard analyses. Up to 80% of a company’s process hazard analyses may consist of HAZOP and...