Escape and Evacuation

Emergency escape and evacuation is the urgent immediate egress or escape of people away from an area that contains an imminent threat, an ongoing threat or a hazard to lives or property. Emergency evacuation plans are developed to ensure the safest and most efficient evacuation time of all expected residents of a plant, structure, city, or region. A benchmark “evacuation time” for different haRead More…

HAZID (Hazard analysis)

For any project in any company, HAZID is carried out first to access risk in a process. Identification of different types of hazards is the main objective of HAZID. A hazard is a possible condition and exists or not (probability is 1 or 0). It may in single/multiple existence or in combination with other hazards or sometimes called events and conditions become an actual Functional Failure or AcciRead More…

Hazardous Area Classification

The purpose of hazardous area classification is to ensure that ignition sources are generally not available to ignite potential flammable atmospheres. Refer below image for Hazardous Area Classification Drawing Hazardous areas extent, definition and
identification, which is based on the Area Classification Code for
Installations Handling Flammable Fluids, Institute of Petroleum Model CoRead More…

What is Process Safety

What is Process Safety? Process safety or functional safety or technical safety is a key element for any engineering design or any projects with planning as well as during execution of design at field locations. This is very important base for any industries to consider process safety or technical safety requirements and safe design goals for any project. Health and safety, involves formingRead More…