Process Safety & Risk Services
AS2885 High Pressure Pipeline Safety Management Studies (SMS)
High Pressure Gas Transmission Pipelines are designed, operated and maintained under Australian Standard AS2885 and as part of this Standard it calls for various SMS reviews during the design process and when the land use changes or the operating parameters change over the life of the pipeline.
The SMS process reviews a broad range of risks to the Pipeline and seeks to nominate appropriate and effective controls to ensure the pipeline can be operated and maintained safely throughout its lifetime and to the intent of AS2885.
We can develop the scope of an SMS including a Terms Of Reference document, facilitate the SMS Workshop and prepare an SMS Report. We can also oversee the close out of the Actions to ensure they are properly closed out based on the intent of the Workshop and to the intent of AS2885. As part of our services we will undertake ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practical) and LOPA (Layers of Protection Analysis) assessments to ensure residual risks are within acceptable levels.
We can provide advice to government and industry in interpreting the Standard and its application in areas of dispute
Project Risk Management
Assessment of Risk is an important factor for any Project and for business management more broadly. Development of an appropriate business risk matrix and its effective application to business and project risk assists in keeping control of a range of risks associated with Financial, Environmental, Reputational, Safety, Legal and Commercial Risk.
We can develop and/or review risk strategies, develop the scope of Project or Business Risk Assessment and facilitate the Workshop
Safety In Design Workshops
Early in the design life of a Project it is important to consider Safety in the construction, commissioning and operation, in addition to the Design of a new or existing facility. It is important to ensure hazards to safety are designed out or controlled appropriately. We can develop the scope of an SID Workshop and facilitate.
Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) Assessment, BowTie & As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) Assessment
As part of any safety study or risk assessment it is important to be able to consider the likelihood of failure and whether a risk is "As Low As Reasonably Practicable" ALARP.
The LOPA & BowTie assessment allows us to break down the steps that lead to an incident into discrete layers for failure consideration. We can also then consider the effectiveness of particular mitigations. The LOPA allows us to undertake a more details overall probability calculation to determine the likelihood of a particular event leading to failure.
An ALARP assessment allows us to consider if there are any additional mitigations we believe are justified to further lower the likelihood of a particular incident occuring. Sometimes this can be in the form of a cost analysis to compare the considered cost of failure along with the estimated probability and measure that against applying additional mitigations to determine if they are justified.