Safety Analyses
Our Philosophy:
” Your safety is our mission “
Syntech International Srl is proud to offer its advice and ideas on introducing Safety Analysis procedures into the Client’s organization, auditing and improving their use.
We provide our services, making use of the most advanced Safety analyses and Risk assessment procedures, by preparing the preliminary documentation remotely, then completing the discussion at the Client’s premises. Whenever a safety analysis team is required, this activity will be carried out at the Client’s premises and in synergy with selected members of its staff (process engineers and operators). Here below, we briefly report the techniques used for the Hazard identification in a system & the Definition of a Safety integrity level, which are offered by our Company.
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- What If ? This technique asks a series of “What if?” questions about the system and its design, and is used to give a first assessment of hazards.
- Interaction analysis. This technique looks at the interactions between specific aspects of a system. It is widely used in the process industries where the human interaction with the process is relevant, such as in batch-production, where chemicals could be mixed in error.
- Zonal analysis. This technique looks at interactions between components of a system but is specifically concerned with their physical positions. It can be used in identifying common cause hazards and the consequences of their interaction.
- Checklists. This approach helps to identify hazards by providing a pre-determined series of questions, usually related to “What” and “How”. They can be used to look at either specific items of a system, or procedures, and may be qualitative or quantitative. The checklists are preliminarily drafted at our headquarters, then they are discussed at the Client’s premises, in synergy with the permanent staff. This procedure can be carried out at any time and at any level of design abstraction.
- Fault Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA). This technique aims to identify the ways in which a system can fail and the effects of the failures. An FMEA is normally carried out remotely by an engineer of our team, but it may be done by a complete team: it is one of the best known and most widely used systematic techniques for hazard identification.
- Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP). It is a formal and systematic technique aimed to the identification of hazards. It examines the components and the interconnections between components, to explore whether deviation from a design intent is possible, and if so, what might be their causes and consequences. HAZOP is particularly powerful for exploring the interconnections between parts of a system. It is team-based to bring a variety of viewpoints to the identification of any failures.
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) & Event Tree Analysis (ETA). Both safety analysis techniques provide ways of examining in a rigorous way the causes and the consequences of the identified hazard.
