Process Safety Management Seminar
| • Go Heng Huat | • Brian D. Rains | • Don Kimbril | • Veronica Chow | • Rachelle Doyle |
| • Syed Zaiful Hamzah | • Sujith Panikkar | • Bernard Leong | • Yue Feng Chen | |
| Title | Singapore’s Approach to Process Safety Management |
| Presenter | Go Heng Huat Deputy Director, OSH Specialist Department, Occupational Safety & Health Division, Ministry of Manpower |
Process Safety Management is a holistic management of Process Safety to prevent process incidents and mitigate their consequences. The talk covers the development of process safety management, the regulatory framework to engender the adoption of process safety management and the way forward.
Go Heng Huat is a Deputy Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Division, Ministry of Manpower. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) and Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, UK. He is an Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
Go Heng Huat has been actively involved in the Singapore standardization especially in the area of safety standards. He sits in Management System Standard Committee of SPRING Singapore and chairs the Technical Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Management System. He is a member of the Council Committee for Management Systems and Products of the Singapore Accreditation Council. Mr Go is also an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biomolecular Engineering of the National University of Singapore.
| Title | Learning from Major Process Safety Incidents |
| Presenter | Brian D. Rains Leader DuPont’s Process Safety/ Operations Risk Management Consulting Practice, USA |
Incident investigations teams routinely identify not just a single root cause that triggered the incident but also a number of other, contributing causes . One explanation for this observation is the well known "Swiss cheese model" as described by James Reason. A second explanation is the interdependent nature of the various PSM elements; how weakness in one can contribute to failure in another. In the highly complex facilities that are operated by Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Metals companies, only a truly integrated and interdependent approach to PSM implementation will successfully prevent serious Process Safety Incidents
Brian started his career with DuPont in 1981 and has gained extensive experience primarily in manufacturing and technology. He has held Plant Manager roles in the USA, Spain and Singapore as well as other a wide range of other leadership assignments. In Singapore, he served as Director of the Singapore Chemical Industry Council and as Chair of the Responsible Care Committee. He has been leading the process safety management practice since 2008 for DuPont Sustainable Solutions. Brain is sought after speaker in major events across the globe and has interacted with major process companies across all regions.
Brian was born in California. He earned his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1981.
| Title | Keys to Effective Site Wide Risk Management & Efficient Resource Utilisation |
| Presenter | Don Kimbril Chief Safety Engineer, ExxonMobil Chemical Company |
Every operating facility has risks....many of them. Those risks are not the same...some are more significant than others. The keys to effective risk management incorporates a comprehensive process of risk discovery, risk assessment that prioritizes based upon significance, and resource allocation that maximizes risk reduction. This paper will describe the process in place within ExxonMobil to do just that.
Don has worked in the Safety Engineering field for ExxonMobil for the past 32 years. He has worked in operations at various ExxonMobil affiliates around the world ranging from offshore platforms in the North Sea to petrochemical plants in the United States. Don has a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University, and a Masters degree from Texas A&M University. He is a Certified Safety Professional and a Registered Professional Engineer.
| Title | GHS Implementation in Singapore |
| Presenter | Veronica Chow Senior Assistant Director (Occupational Hygiene), Occupational Safety and Health Division, Ministry of Manpower |
Presentation outlines GHS as a baseline of Chemical Management and roadmap for its implementation in Singapore
| Title | Process Safety - PHA Study & Challenges in Industry |
| Presenter | Rachelle Doyle Senior Process Safety Specialist, Energy Technology Company Chevron Energy Technology Pty Ltd, Perth, Australia |
Process Hazards Analyses (PHA) studies are a key tool used to recognize and manage process safety risks. Ineffective PHA can lead to hazards not being identified, consequences not being fully understood and the subsequent risks being underestimated. Challenges to PHA effectiveness can arise from a number of sources ranging from out of date process safety information, lack of rigor, inappropriate analysis technique, to team member selection issues. This presentation will outline some common failures mechanisms, along with methods that can be used in the preparation, execution and validation of a PHA study to assist in achieving a successful study
Rachelle started her career as a Chemical Engineer with Alcoa and has held various process engineering, operations, process safety positions in operating companies and specialist consulting companies before joining Chevron on the Gorgon Project and then into her current Chevron Energy Technology Company assignment as a Senior Process Safety specialist based in Perth, Australia.
Rachelle has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and a Graduate Diploma in Business from Curtin University in Australia.
| Title | Process Safety Hazard Analysis - Use of Bow Tie Tool for Easy Hazard Analysis Study |
| Presenter | Syed Zaiful Hamzah Principal Risk Consultant, ABS Consulting, Singapore |
The Bow-Tie tool is a easy to use HAZAN tool with clear presentation on multiple barriers installed for each threat and the ability to see how the degradation of individual barriers increases the overall risk. It is a good visual tool indicating multiple barriers and the mitigation steps put in place to prevent Loss Of Containment incidents.
Syed Zaiful Hamzah is a Principal Risk Consultant at ABS Consulting in Singapore, where is serves primarily as the lead consultant and project manager for the undertaking of risk assessments for offshore and onshore installations. His primary areas of expertise are in the preparation of HSE cases, bow-tie analysis, HAZOP/PHA facilitation and various technical safety studies such as Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), Fire & Explosion Assessment (FEA), Escape, Temporary Refuge, Evacuation & Rescue Analysis (ETRERA), Emergency Systems Survivability Analysis (ESSA) etc. He has almost 20 years experience in Asia and Europe, covering plant operations, corporate risk management and risk consulting.
Syed hold as BSc. Degree in Chemical & Petroleum-Refining Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
| Title | Safety Instrumented System - A critical barrier |
| Presenter | Sujith Panikkar CFSE, FSE (TÜV SÜD),FS Expert (TÜV Rheinland),Consultant- Safety Systems Engineering, Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore |
The talk aims to address the position of Safety Instrumented systems in the overall risk reduction strategy for a process plant and how this forms a critical safety preventive. In this perspective, the factors that influence reliability of such critical systems and design conformance to safety targets are examined. How standards (IEC61508/ 61511) provide the necessary guidance for realization of safety instrumented systems.
Sujith has a Masters degree in SHE from NUS, Singapore and is a Certified Functional Safety Expert. He has over 21 years of experience in the field of Industrial Automation Systems & products for Oil & Gas, Petroleum Refining, LNG, downstream petrochemicals industry projects including Distributed Control Systems and Safety Instrumented Systems for ESD/ BMS/ F&G applications and Intrinsically Safe hazardous area interfaces. Currently he is engaged in Functional Safety and Safety Systems Engineering Practice at Yokogawa in Singapore.
| Title | Process Safety Indicators – Key to Incident Free Operation |
| Presenter | Bernard Leong Health, Safety & Environment Manager, Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (Private) Limited |
The presentation will touch on background of recent thrusts in Process Safety and what stakeholders need to commit. It will briefly cover the company’s initiatives and its selection of Key Performance Indicators for Process Safety and Reliability.
The paper will wrap up with importance of learning and sharing collaboration within the industry.
Bernard has more than 20 years experience in the process industry, in the areas of process technology and operations. He spent the last 5 years in HSE capacity, first in line function safety and health and recently in corporate capacity.
Bernard develops and administers policies and programs for workplace safety and health, and environmental issues in accordance with corporate and legal requirements.
| Title | Process Safety Risk Reduction Approach - An Insurance Risk Engineering Perspective |
| Presenter | Yue Feng Chen Vice- President, Global Energy Risk Engineering - Asia Energy Practice, Marsh (Singapore) Pte Ltd |
The Oil, Gas and Petrochemical sectors in Asia are in a continuous state of growth across many markets in the region. Despite this momentum, the industry has suffered record losses across the region, highlighting the risk exposures as the industry develops and matures. Are we learning from these lessons? This presentation will provide insights and approach to manage risks from insurance risk engineering perspective. Risk ranking and the areas of concerns in rating risks from the insurance market will be shared in the presentation
Yue Feng is Marsh Asia’s Engineering practice leader based in Singapore. He has worked with oil, gas and petrochemical clients across Europe and Asia.
