An international personal products manufacturer needed to complete hazard analyses of their alcohol processes to meet regulatory and company requirements. The Process Hazard Analyses could not be completed until all necessary process safety information was compiled.
While the client the client collected all other process safety information, the ioKinetic team traced each piece of equipment and interconnecting piping, updated existing piping and instrument drawings and provided them in electronic CAD format. We updated the client's existing PHAs and conducted new PHAs for the appropriate section of the process. For equipment that manufactured multiple products, we defined the worst-case products in terms of the quantity of alcohol added and the alcohol concentration and temperature in the product after alcohol addition from a potential safety impact. These products were then used as the proxy for the full range of products manufactured in that equipment. By using the hazard assessment documentation software PHAGlobal® from our partner ioMosaic Corporation, the work was completed quickly.
We completed the required Process Hazard Analyses in a timely manner and identified ways to reduce potential for fires and explosions. The facility now met OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) standard, 29 CFR 1910.119 and EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) rule, 40 CFR Part 68.