Major Hazard Facilities

Major Hazard Facilities (MHF) form a special class in high hazard industries due to potential impact on health, safety and environment, both onsite and offsite. Many countries have legislated for licensing the MHFs.

Arriscar can lead you through the regulatory maze in order to have your safety case accepted and obtain a licence to operate a major hazard facility.

Arriscar consultants have the advantage of having both the industry experience and consulting to MHFs, backed up by regulatory experience. This enables us to provide cost-effective and facility specific solutions, consistent with the corporate safety culture.

Type of MHFs Covered

Our expertise covers a wide range of major hazards facilities:

• Oil and gas production, refining, storage and distribution
• LP Gas facilities
• LNG facilities
• Chemical and petrochemical process plants and dangerous goods storage
• Oil and Gas cross-country pipelines
• Assistance to Regulatory Agencies
• Ports and Marine

Process Safety and Risk Studies

• Gap analysis against regulatory requirements/ industry norms
• Studies to support development of Safety Cases
• HAZID workshop facilitation, Hazard Register
• Process Hazard Analysis
• Layers of Protection Analysis
• Safety Integrity Level Determination/ Verification
• Quantitative risk assessments
• Fire Safety Studies
• Occupied Buildings Risk Assessment
• Determination of design accident loads for fires and explosions
• Hazardous Area Classification
• Safety Critical Elements (SCEs) screening
• Development of Performance Standards for SCEs
• Bow-tie analysis
• PSM system developments
• ALARP/ SFAIRP studies
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Independent PSM audits
• Training in PSM
• Risk management of project life cycle from Concept Design through to detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, operations and maintenance, and facility close down.
• Independent Regulatory Compliance audits

Arriscar Approach

Principal features of the Arriscar approach to problem solving are:

• Comprehensive hazard identification
• Working closely with the Company representatives to transfer knowledge to company representatives
• Working with clients to develop risk engineering solutions

Recent Safety Studies for MHFs

• QRA for Oil Refinery
• LOPA for two Oil Refineries
• Safety Case for LPG Cavern facility
• Safety Case for LPG storage and distribution depot
• LOPA studies for gas treatment facilities
• Hazardous area classification for major industrial gases production facility
• QRA for ammonia and ammonium nitrate plant
• QRA and Concept safety Assessment for Marine Ethane Import Terminal, pipeline and Storage
• QRA,HAZOP and SIL studies for booster compression station of gas treatment plant
• LPG pipeline in Port Botany industrial complex