Process Safety Management
PHA, LOPA Services
To help ensure a safe and healthy work environment, Process Safety Management standards have been created or approved by OSHA for our industry.
We help clients meet their process safety management objectives of:
- Improving safety and minimizing risk
- Ensuring a thorough and well documented safety review of the process
- Meeting OSHA Process Safety Management requirements
- Safeguarding public and company employees
Equity engineers are familiar with the OSHA Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals standard 29CFR1910.119, which contains the requirements for the management of hazards associated with processes that use hazardous chemicals. Our engineers can offer many Process Safety Management (PSM) services including:
- For individual projects, facilities, or 5-year cyclic reviews, we are trained and certified in conducting Process Hazard Analyses (PHA), a key element in any process safety management program. We have expertise in developing OSHA PSM requirements as well as certified facilitators qualified to do HAZOPS, what-if checklists, and fault-tree analyses.
- Our engineers are also trained to perform Layers of Protection Analyses (LOPA) to determine whether existing safeguards are adequate or if additional safeguards are needed.
Ms. Ward has 15 years of experience in the chemical industry where she has been responsible for pressure relief device system studies in chemical plant operations. She has also been involved in pipe stress and vibration analysis and has performed extensive Risk-Based Inspection studies on plant pressure vessels, heat exchangers and storage tanks.
Ms. Thomas is responsible for engineering consulting services in the areas of Pressure Relief, Process Safety Management and Process Technology. She is a specialist in the design, installation, sizing and selection of pressure relief devices and relieving systems and is currently an active member of the API Pressure Relieving System Subcommittee’s Task Force on RP 520 and RP 521, related to the design and installation of pressure relieving systems. She conducts audits of pressure relieving systems to ensure compliance with OSHA PSM legislation and ASME, API and DIERs Standards, Codes and Publications. She also evaluates pressure relieving systems including scenario development, relief device sizing, collection header design and evaluation, relief device equipment recommendations and documentation.
