This annotum describes the Prestartup Safety Reviews (PSSR) as used in the process industries to ensure safe and trouble-free start-ups.

Process Safety Management principles are well understood and implemented within the process industries world-wide. Companies are increasingly using their PSM programs as the foundation of a more comprehensive Operational Integrity Management (OIM) effort. When combined with other, non-technical initiatives, Operational Excellence is created.

This knol provides an overview of the topic of Management of Change (MOC) in the process industries and as a part of Process Safety Management (PSM) programs.

A facility that is inherently safe is one that is of low risk, even if safeguards and protective measures do not work as they should. The classic example of an inherent safety device is the bund (earth) wall that is often placed around storage tanks. If the tank leaks the bund wall will retain the spilled liquid, regardless of instrument or operator response.

There have been two major blowouts in U.S. waters: Santa Barbara (1969) and Deepwater Horizon (2010). Of the two, the Santa Barbara event did not result in loss of human life or destruction of the drill rig, but it probably created more environmental damage. It was also a major factor in the creation of the modern environmental movement.

This knol discusses the background to Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) programs that are used by most companies in the process industries.

The success of a HAZOP, or any other type of Process Hazards Analysis (PHA), depends on the composition and quality of the team. This knol describes who should be on the team, and how they should be managed.

This knol provides an overview of the Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) technique that is widely used in the process industries to identify and risk rank process hazards.

Massive chemical plant explosion led to the development of Process Safety Management (PSM) programs in the chemical process industries.

Formal Safety Assessments (FSAs) was identified in the Cullen Report (written following the Piper Alpha event) as being an essential part of a Safety Case. This knol discusses the organization and contents of a typical FSA.