HAZOP STUDY: The Cornerstone of Effective Risk Management
The HAZOP study gives the risk manager an opportunity to examine
all critical design, operating, and
maintenance aspects of a process system concurrently with their
interactions, interrelationships, and
interdependence. It provides an opportunity for thorough
examination of all factors that affect plant
safety and productivity in order to identify, quantify and
control true hazards in the most efficient
manner possible.
Risk is everywhere, and engineers instinctively know that there
are risks involved when they design
and operate products, facilities, and processes. There is a need
to assess and quantify the risk of new
projects or process changes so as to mitigate these potential
hazards. It´s a systematic approach to
investigating the potential risks and incidents that may happen
within a particular operational
condition.
HAZOP is a useful methodology for assessing the hazards and
operational problems that can occur
during normal operations, those events which are unlikely to
have long-term effects and not likely
cause an accident. Hazop study includes assessment of hazardous
effects, initiating events that could
jeopardize the chain of events, analyzing risk exposures, etc. A
systematic approach is used which
methodically identifies sources of potential accidents and forms
a basis for evaluation and
development of strategies to eliminate or reduce them. HAZOP
studies also help the analysts or
investigators to arrive at the probable cause of accidents as
well as their contributing conditions.
The basic purpose of HAZOP is to define the Safety consultant
around a plant through methods
including ID the hazards, impact of adverse events, and identify
measures to mitigate the risk. HAZOP
helps separate "signal from the noise" so that risks can be
assessed properly by focusing on how losses
can occur rather than on what might cause them.
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