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Process Safety Management Strategies and Risk
Assessment
Nina Jildeh
1)
, Mohammed Matouq
*2)
1)Qaulity Assurance Consultant, Omnitrade Chaoui, Rshaidat and Masannat, B.O.Box 294 Amman, 11118, Jordan.
2)
Al-Balqa Applied University, Faculty of Engineering Technology, Chemical Engineering Department, P.O. Box 4486, Amman 11131, Jordan.
Abstract
The benefits of achieving excellent process safety prevent or mitigate incidents. Well, the decision-making process has
a benefit on risk reduction. This paper guides how an effective system can be established to develop methods and models
for mandatory safety and a healthful workplace. The success of health and safety management depends on the discipline,
commitment, and participation of all employees to ensure the success of management strategies and ensure the
reduction of significant risks. The sustainability challenges are increasingly by evaluating risk and process safety due to
the differences in the knowledge and experiences. Failure Mode and Effective Analysis (FMEA) combined with risk
management principles provide an overall assessment to express the deviation that might occur in the process before
failure and distinguish the importance of risk factors. This article intended to provide a method for integrating an
organization's safety and health regardless of its size and work contributed to regulations and requirements. The benefits
to implementing this model in the company will show returns in the investment. The main challenges include identification
and discussion of the potential risks, in addition, to the collaborative of researchers between environmental protection
and process system leading to the reliability and better understanding of the existing safety concepts.
Paper type: Review paper
Keywords: safety, health, environmental impact, risks, hazards, process management, ISO.
Citation: Jildeh Nina, and Mohammed Matouq " Process Safety Management Strategies and Risk Assessment" Jordanian Journal of Engineering
and Chemical Industries, Vol. 4, No.2, pp:52-61 (2021).
Introduction
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) created the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) in 1985 after the
chemical disaster in Mexico and India to prevent major chemical accidents. CCPS provides a series of guidelines and essential practices
for implanting process safety and risk management system to ensure the effectiveness of process safety management (PSM) (Abu Baker
et al., 2017). Nevertheless, many organizations are still challenged within a complex of operational processing plants and management
systems. This could certainly create new risks and hazards. Weaknesses, including lack of awareness about severe chemical hazards
and poor preparation of any hazards, result in victims (Fatemi et al., 2019). According to International Standardization and Organization
ISO 45001, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employees to comply with safety, health standards,
and regulations. The management system aims to prevent work-related incidents/injuries and provide a safe and healthy workplace.
The literature reviewed that European and US safety concepts are considered more advanced and comprehensive than those found in
the Taiwanese construction industry (Chen et al., 2020). Continuously, the organization management should eliminate any hazards
besides improvement of safety performance (Guntzburger et al., 2017; Grossel, 2007). According to regulations and requirements,
organizations and industries seek a new way to improve safety and health management in the work area. The main aim is to reduce risk
and economic failure based on risk analysis and judgment on existing resources and processes. This could become more effective once
consultation and expert analysis of the risks of the entire process life-cycle from the safety point of view for restructuring a new
practical, safe system. Several accidents have occurred over the past decades with significant impact results directly or indirectly in the
environment and human health. Different accidents reflect the efficiency and effectiveness of process safety and risk management
system to prevents and reduce the severity and occurrence of these industrial accidents. It is expected to learn from these accidents and
another industrial failure, reducing the potential catastrophic accidents in the future. Some notable accidents in history have been
addressed in order to learn and improve the existing process safety management system or reduce the impact of the undesirable hazards:
* Corresponding author: E-mail: matouq3@yahoo.com ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2497-2117
Received on May 7, 2021; Accepted on July 30--, 2021.
Jordanian Journal of Engineering and Chemical Industries (JJECI), Vol.4, No.2, 2021, pp. 52-61.
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