HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice
- 4th Edition - April 1, 2027
- Latest edition
- Authors: Phil Eames, Ken Patterson
- Language: English
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Description
Description
Key features
Key features
- Fully revised, updated, and expanded new edition setting out current best practice in the management and conduct of HAZOP studies
- Explains HAZOP technique principles alongside best practice in planning and conducting a study
- Presents "golden rules" for maximizing the effectiveness of HAZOP studies
- Examines HAZOP use throughout the process lifecycle, including creeping change, risk matrices, and the relationship with Layers of Protection Analysis
- Includes a new chapter on the impact of artificial intelligence and advances in process control on HAZOP techniques
- Provides updated continuous, batch, and procedural HAZOP examples with detailed worksheets reflecting modern best practice
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1.1. Aims and Objectives
1.2. Essential Features of HAZOP Study
1.3. The Requirements for a HAZOP Study
2. Process Hazard Studies
2.1. Consideration of Inherent Safety
2.2. Concept Stage Hazard Review
2.3. HAZID at Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of Project Definition Stage
2.4. Detailed Design Hazard Study
2.5. Construction/Design Verification
2.6. Pre-Commissioning Safety Review
2.7. Project Close-Out/Post Start-Up Review
2.8. Demolition/Abandonment Reviews
2.9. Overview of Hazard Studies
3. The HAZOP Study Method
3.1. Essential Features
3.2. The Purpose
3.3. Limitations
4. The Detailed HAZOP Study Procedure
4.1. Node Selection
4.2. The Description and Design Intention
4.3. Generating a Deviation
4.4. Identifying Causes
4.5. Evaluating Consequences
4.6. Safeguards
4.7. Risk Assessment
4.8. Recommendations
4.9. Recording
4.10. Continuing and Completing the Analysis
4.11. An Illustration of the HAZOP Study Process
5. Organising 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
5.3. Preparation
6. Carrying Out a Study
6.1. Terms of Reference
6.2. Planning the Meetings
6.1. The Study Meetings
6.2. Coordinating and Reviewing Responses
6.3. Completing and Signing Off the Report(s)
6.4. Follow-up of Recommendations and Management of Change
7. Leading/Facilitating
8. Recording and Auditing
8.1. Background Information
8.2. Section Headings
8.3. The Recording Format for the Detailed Examination
8.4. The Level of Recording
8.5. The Content
8.6. Computer Recording
8.7. Auditing a HAZOP Study
9. Training
9.1. Team Members
9.2. Recorder
9.3. Team Leader
10. Company Procedures for HAZOP Study
11. Advanced Aspects of HAZOP Study
11.1. HAZOP Study of Computer-Controlled Processes
11.2. Human Factors
11.3. Linking HAZOP Studies to LOPA
12. Specific Applications of HAZOP
12.1. Modification of Existing Operations
12.2. Repeat Designs – HAZOP-by-difference
12.3. Periodic Hazard Studies and the HAZOP of an Existing Plant
12.4. The Use and Limitations of the Delta HAZOP Technique
12.5. Operating Procedures
12.6. Pilot Plant and Laboratory Operations
12.7. Drains, Vents, and Other Interconnections Between Plants
12.8. Commissioning and Decommissioning
12.9. Start-up and Shutdown
12.10. Construction and Demolition
12.11. Contract Operations
13. Factors for a Successful HAZOP Study
13.1. Throughout the Study
13.2. Before the Study
13.3. During the Study
13.4. After the Study
14. Future Developments
14.1. The Use of HAZOP in Non-process Industry and Other Non-conventional Applications
14.2. The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 4
- Latest edition
- Published: April 1, 2027
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Phil Eames
Phil Eames is an experienced HAZOP Leader, first trained in 1986, and actively practiced in his career as a process safety manager and then for 15 years as a process safety consultant. He led HAZOP studies across various sectors of the process industries and was accredited by several multinational companies. Phil conducted both small stand-alone studies and large-scale HAZOP programs involving multiple leaders. As a consultant, he designed and delivered training, mentoring, and assessment for HAZOP Leaders, including the successful IChemE HAZOP Leadership and Management course, which he re-launched in 2017.
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Ken Patterson
Ken Patterson is a seasoned professional with a decade of experience as an industrial chemist before joining the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in 1986 as a Principal Specialist Inspector focused on process safety. He served as a field inspector in the North of England and worked in major hazards and operational research at HSE headquarters. After the major accident at Hickson & Welch in 1994, he became their Health and Safety Manager. Ken retired from Synthomer in 2016 as Group Risk and SHE Manager. He contributed to IChemE’s Fundamentals of Process Safety course and received the Franklin Medal in 2011 for his contributions to process safety.