HAZOP: guide to best practice : guidelines to best practice for the process and chemical industries

Front Cover; HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Foreword To Third Edition; Foreword to Earlier Editions; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Aims and Objectives; 1.2 Essential Features of HAZOP Study; 2 Process Hazard Studies; 2.1 HS 1-Concept Stage Hazard Review; 2.2 HS 2-HAZID at Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) or Project Definition Stage; 2.3 HS 3-Detailed Design Hazard Study; 2.4 HS 4-Construction/Design Verification; 2.5 HS 5-Pre-Commissioning Safety Review; 2.6 HS 6-Project Close-Out/Post Start-Up Review.

2.7 HS 0-Consideration of Inherently Safer or Less Polluting Systems2.8 HS 7-Demolition/Abandonment Reviews; 2.9 Overview of Hazard Studies; 2.10 Illustrative Checklist for HS 2; 3 The HAZOP Study Method; 3.1 Essential Features; 3.2 The Purpose; 3.3 Limitations; 4 The Detailed HAZOP Study Procedure; 4.1 The Description and Design Intention; 4.2 Generating a Deviation; 4.3 Identifying Causes; 4.4 Evaluating Consequences; 4.5 Safeguards (Protection); 4.6 Risk Assessment; 4.7 Recommendations/Actions; 4.8 Recording; 4.9 Continuing and Completing the Analysis.

4.10 An Illustration of the HAZOP Study Process5 Organizing a HAZOP Study; 5.1 Defining the Scope and Objectives of the Study and Establishing the Boundaries; 5.2 Appointing a Team Leader and Selecting the Team; 5.2.1 The Team Leader/Facilitator; 5.2.2 Scribe (Scribe/Recorder); 5.2.3 Team Size and Membership; 5.3 Preparation; 5.3.1 Continuous Processes; 5.3.2 Batch Processes and Sequential Operations; 5.3.3 HAZOP Study of a Procedure; 6 Carrying Out a Study; 6.1 Premeeting with Client; 6.2 Planning the Meetings; 6.3 The Study Meetings; 6.3.1 The Initial Meeting.

6.3.2 The Detailed HAZOP Study Meetings6.4 Coordinating and Reviewing Responses; 6.5 Completing and Signing Off the Report(s); 6.6 Follow-Up of Actions and Management of Change; 7 Recording and Auditing; 7.1 Background Information; 7.2 Section Headings; 7.3 The Recording Format for the Detailed Examination; 7.4 The Level of Recording; 7.5 The Content; 7.6 Computer Recording; 7.7 Auditing a HAZOP Study; 8 Training; 8.1 Team Members; 8.2 Scribe; 8.3 Team Leader; 9 Company Procedures for HAZOP Study; 10 Advanced Aspects of HAZOP Study; 10.1 HAZOP Study of Computer-Controlled Processes.

10.1.1 Hazard Study 210.1.2 Functional Safety and IEC 61508; 10.1.3 Enhanced HAZOP for Computer-Controlled Systems; 10.1.4 Computer HAZOP (CHAZOP) Study; 10.1.4.1 Detailed Study of Computer Hardware; 10.1.4.2 Detailed HAZOP of Computer Sequences; 10.2 Human Factors; 10.3 Linking HAZOP Studies to LOPA; 11 Specific Applications of HAZOP; 11.1 Modification of Existing Operations; 11.2 Repeat Designs-HAZOP-by-difference; 11.3 Periodic Hazard Studies and the HAZOP of an Existing Plant; 11.4 Operating Procedures; 11.5 Pilot Plant and Laboratory Operations.