Process Safety Management, Standard-Based Approach

This element is the starting point of OSHA PSM system; at which it will address:

1- Safety Leadership & the criteria of healthy process safety leadership,

2- OSHA mandatory quotes regarding the employee & employer participation.

This lecture will provide you an overview about:

1- the technical illustration of process safety information.

2- Contents of standard MSDS.

3- Block flow diagrams.

4- Process flow diagrams.

5- Process chemistry.

6- Evaluation process of the consequences of deviations.

7- P & IDs.

8-  the relation of process safety with:

a- Material of construction of equipment, 

b- Electrical classification,

c- Relief systems & design basis,

d-  Ventilation systems design,

e- Design codes/standards,

f- Material/Energy Balance,

g- Safety systems (interlocks, detection or suppression systems).

This lecture will provide you information about:

1- Definitions of hazard, risk.

2- Risk Matrix.

3- Categories of PHA

4- Risk Criteria.

5- Tolerability of Risk.

6- the PHA team.

7- Main Stages of PHA process.

8- Key Elements of high quality PHA.

9- Categories of PSM PHAs.

10- Hazard & Operability (HAZOP) study.

11- Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA).

12- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).

13- Checklists.

14- Structured What if / checklist technique.

15- Applicability of Techniques for PHA.

16- Attributes of selection of PHA technique.

17- Review cycle of PHA.

This lecture will provide you information about:

1- Definitions of safe operating limits, process limits & safe operating envelope.

2- Mandatory PSM operational proccedures stated by OSHA.

3- Characters of PSM operational procedures.

4- Limitations of operating procedures.

This lecture will provide you information about:

1- the importance of training in relation to process safety.

2- Definition of competence & CAMS.

3- Mandatory training categories stated by OSHA PSM standard.

This lecture will provide you information about:

1- Criteria for contractor selection.

2- Responsibilities of employer & contract employer in the presepective of OSHA PSM standard.

This lecture will provide you information about:

1- the mandatory requirements to conduct the PSSR.

2- the steps to carry out a successful PSSR.

This lecture will provide you information about:

1- the definition of mechanical integrity & its objectives.

2- the definition of criticality & how to determine the criticality of the asset using FMECA.

3- Safety critical equipment & their significance.

4- the FARSI approach for development of safety critical elements performance standards.

5- the scope of applicability of mechanical integrity in the presepective of OSHA PSM standard.

6- OSHA PSM mechanical integrity requirements.

This element will give you an overview for the following:

1- Definition of hot works.

2- OSHA PSM mandatory requirements regarding hot works.

3-  the fire protection & fire prevention requirements.

This lecture will provide you information about:

1- OSHA manadatory requirements regarding the investigation of PS-related incidents.

2- minimum incident report requirements.

This lecture will provide you information about:

1- OSHA PSM mandatory requirements regarding the development of ERP.

this lecture will provide you with the regulatory requirement of compliance PSM audits.

This lecture will provide you an insight about the significance of trade secret status of the information & their significance in relation to process safety management.

This lecture will provide you information regarding:

1-  the most critical OSHA PSM elements.

2- the interrelation between OSHA PSM critical elements with other elements.

This lecture will provide you with a detailed comparison between the PSM approaches of OSHA & CCPS

This lecture will provide information for the following:

1- Definition of KPIs, their importance & significance.

2- Features of effective KPIs.

3- The tier outlines of PSM KPIs.

4- Types of containments.

5- Tier 1 PSM KPI-PSE.

6- Rules ot T1-PSE classification.

7- Calculation of T1-PSE frequency & severity weighting.

This lecture will provide you information about:

1- T2 PSE.

2- T3 KPI with standard examples.

3- T4 KPI with standard examples.

4- Software assistance in the determination of PSEs.

5- Reporting of KPIs.