Formal Safety Assessment
At RISKbytes we believe that Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) forms a fundamental component of successful HSE Management. FSA form the basis for hazard identification, understanding, assessment and management based on the specific hazards to a facility or development. The services and tools that we provide and implement with the facility operator provide the knowledge and wisdom to make HSE decisions in a professional and robust manner.
The tools that our team uses to carry out FSA are as follows:
Identification
 | Hazard and operability studies (HAZOP) |
| Structured hazard identification (HAZID) |
| Incident data reviews |
| Failure modes and effects studies |
Understanding
| Outflow / release rate and duration |
| Jet fire / Pool fire size and radiation levels |
| Gas build-up and explosion impacts |
| Impact of safety systems (e.g. emergency shutdown, isolation, blowdown, deluge, etc.) |
| Fault tree analysis |
Assessment
| Escape, evacuation and rescue assessments |
| Emergency system survivability |
| Temporary refuge studies |
| Concept evaluation studies |
| Scenario based risk assessment |
| Quantitative risk assessment |
Management
| Development of safety critical / mission critical equipment |
| Performance requirements for critical equipment |
| Hazard management plans |
| Bow-ties |
| Concept selection comparison studies |
| ALARP demonstration |
| Cost benefit analysis |
At RISKbytes we have a solid understanding of how and when to use each of these tools and are able to use the most appropriate technology for the situation. We fully understand that company culture and regulatory requirements will influence the level of detail FSA required for a given project or operating asset.