PETROTECHNICS UNVEILS NEW RISK MANAGEMENT APPROACH TO IMPROVE PROCESS SAFETY AT CCPS LATIN AMERICAN SAFETY CONFERENCE

摘要

Petrotechnics US President, Mike Neill, demonstrated the value of using a new risk approach through next generation technology to understand and improve process safety management (PSM) at the 4th Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Latin American Conference on Process Safety held on the 4th July. The event is said to be one of the largest forums for process safety management and took place from July 3-5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The theme this year was 'Operational Discipline - Focusing on the Fundamental'. Mr Neill addressed a critical gap in operations by offering insights into managing PSM by linking it with day to day frontline operations. Frontline operations regularly intervene with PSM rules, breaking down the barriers that are meant to keep the plant operationally safe and increasing the levels of operational risk. His presentation is said to have highlighted a new approach as to how it could improve operational discipline by providing increased process hazard visibility, integrate these hazards into cumulative risk profiles and capture information on plant conditions that deviate away fmm standard operating conditions as they impact frontline operations.