Structure of Process Safety in the Operating Plants – Leaders of Management and Analysis of Risks and Impacts

摘要

BRASKEM has developed, within its productive process, a people accountability structurernfollowed by Process Risk Management Procedures to assure risk acceptability criteriarnthroughout its “on going” projects and its current running facilities life cycle. Those criteriarnmust be met from conceptual design, field building implementation (or new acquisitions) of newrnfacilities or even service through operation, maintenance, modification and including facilitiesrndecommissioning and dismantling up to waste and pieces of equipment disposal.rnThe people structure is based on process safety local focal points, called LAGRI’s (leaders ofrnmanagement and analysis of risks and impacts), accountable for every specific industrial area asrnfollows: production, process, maintenance and HSE (health, safety and environmental).Onernimportant LAGRIs role is to guarantee that risk management is understood and it is spreadingrnout through all its company chain. This structure is distributed within process engineering,rnproduction and industrial maintenance departments thru senior members, that besides theirrnregular duties, have to: coordinating the activities related to impact and hazards analysis in thernProduction Unit/Plant, disseminating and equalizing the knowledge related to impact andrnhazards analysis among production unit teams, coordinating the running of periodic riskrnscenario studies of impact and hazards every five years, coordinating the implementation ofrnsuggestions/recommendations from those analysis, including complementary studiesrn(quantitative analysis) and establishing monitor performance indicators for management ofrnimpacts and risks.rnThe procedures of Process Risk Management were based on international standards like CCPS,rnAPI, NFPA, ISA, OSHA and etc, as well as Brazilian regulation.rnThis work aims to present Braskem’s experience for managing process safety using itsrndecentralized structure based on specific process safety local focal points.