PSM · Foundation · ½ day

Process Safety Information and Safe Operating Limits

What the plant must know about its chemicals, technology and equipment, and how safe limits are set and kept

Duration½ day
LevelFoundation
FormatOn-site · virtual
CodeTR-D04
PSIPHAProceduresMOCMIAudit 14 ELEMENTS · RBPS 20
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At a glance

What you will be able to do.

Process engineers, technical authorities, PSM coordinators and document controllers; operations supervisors responsible for safe operating limits

Every other PSM element depends on process safety information being complete, current and findable. This half-day course sets out the three PSI groups of OSHA 1910.119(d): chemical hazards, process technology and equipment design, then concentrates on the part that operators use daily, the safe operating limits table: how design limits, safe upper and lower limits, alarm settings and consequence-of-deviation statements are derived and kept consistent with the PHA, alarm database and procedures.

  • List the PSI required for chemicals, technology and equipment and know where it lives on their site
  • Derive safe operating limits from design limits with documented margins
  • Write consequence-of-deviation statements that operators can act on
  • Keep P&IDs, relief design basis and materials data controlled under MOC
  • Check that PSI, alarm settings, procedures and PHA agree with each other
  • Prepare PSI for an audit or PHA revalidation
Course outline

Day by day

Session 1

PSI-related incidents · OSHA 1910.119(d) and RBPS process knowledge management · chemical hazard data and SDS limits · process technology: block flow, chemistry, inventories, safe upper and lower limits · equipment: codes, materials, relief design basis, P&ID control

Session 2

Setting safe operating limits: design limit, safe limit, alarm, normal envelope · consequence of deviation and integrity operating windows · consistency with PHA and alarm database · document control and MOC hooks · PSI gap check on a unit

Standards referenced
OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119(d)
CCPS Risk Based Process Safety
API 584
ISA-18.2
Seveso III Directive
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