Process safety

Process safety is an interdisciplinary engineering domain focusing on the study, prevention, and management of large-scale fires, explosions and chemical accidents (such as toxic gas clouds) in process plants or other facilities dealing with hazardous materials, such as refineries and oil and gas (onshore and offshore) production installations. Thus, process safety is generally concerned with the prevention of, control of, mitigation of and recovery from unintentional hazardous materials releases that can have a serious effect to people (onsite and offsite), plant and/or the environment.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ CCPS. "Process Safety FAQs". AIChE. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  2. ^ IOGP. "Process safety". IOGP. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  3. ^ Stand Together for Safety (2016). Process Safety - A Good Practice Guide (PDF). Stand Together for Safety. p. 37.