Deadly tragedies like Friday’s (April 2, 2010) explosion and fire at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes Washington State, that killed 5 workers are alarming wake-up calls for refineries.
At ACM, our mission is to prevent these catastrophic events from happening in the first place.
After the incident at Tesoro’s Anacortes refinery, John Bresland, chairman of the Chemical Safety Board said that the refineries need a transformation, where not even the tiniest safety hiccup is tolerated (source: Seattle Times).
And we agree.
That’s why we have spent the last two years developing a revolutionary way to predict danger in your plant – in real time – over its entire lifespan. This approach can prevent the unthinkable catastrophic event from happening in the life of your plant.
Plus, day to day use of this solution will help you make better decisions, reduce outages, minimize environmental impacts and improve process safety management. This fits in with your existing business and control systems without additional requirements and leverages your existing risk assessment process.
Predicting and preventing one impending outage would pay for this solution for the life of your plant.
Are you aware of hidden danger in your plant today? This solution from ACM gives you that answer instantly, anytime, anywhere.
Contact us to find out more.
ACM Facility Safety leverages our experience in Safety Automation and knowledge of the IEC 61511 standards and the "Safety Lifecycle" to provide innovative solutions to EPC and Operating Companies in the specification, design, installation, maintenance and operation of high integrity and critical control systems.
ACM Facility Safety can help you:
- identify potential hazards to your assets and operations
- evaluate the expected frequency and likelihood of consequences
- assess preventive and mitigation controls
- consider options to reduce risk
- determine if the residual risk is tolerable or needs to be reduced further
- implement the appropriate solutions balancing risk and cost
IEC 61511 Compliance
ACM solves design and development problems at conceptual, feasibility, design and operational phases, ensuring clients comply with the myriad of current industry standards, guidelines and best practices, such as IEC 61511, API RP 14C, OSHA29 CFR Part 1910, ISO 10418 and CEPA 2000.
Safety and Risk Group
Our Safety and Risk group includes a number of highly qualified and experienced consultants from academic, operational, design and maintenance backgrounds who use proven tools and techniques to provide fast responses to safety, risk and reliability issues.
Process Safety Management
ACM utilizes the principles of Process Safety Management (PSM) - a systematic approach to minimizing process incidents by evaluating the whole process. PSM focuses on the prevention or minimization of the consequences of a catastrophic release of toxic, reactive, flammable or explosive highly hazardous chemicals from a process. ACM considers process design, process technology, operational and maintenance activities and procedures, non-routine activities and procedures, emergency preparedness plans and procedures, training programs, and other elements that impact the process in our evaluation.
Safety and Risk Assessment
From the findings of the safety and risk assessment, ACM can help design and implement cost effective high integrity and critical control systems. We are helping to broaden and enhance the process community's adoption of the IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards through our public and in-house training programs and the introduction of a revolutionary software tool for SIL Assessment, Validation and Optimization, called SilCore™.
Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
- Safety Cases / Concept Safety Analysis
- Design Reviews
- HAZOP Facilitation
- HAZID Facilitation
- Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA)
- Fault Tree / Event Tree Analysis
- Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
- ALARP Demonstration / Workshops
- Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM) Studies
- Risk Reduction Strategies
- Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Assessments / Determination
- Independent Protection Layer (IPL) Definition
- Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
- Risk Matrix / Corporate Tolerable Frequency Determination
- Bow-Tie Analysis
- Critical Task Analysis
Safety System Specification and Design Services
After the hazard and risk assessment, the allocation of safety functions to protection layers and the conceptual design for the Safety Instrumented System (SIS) have all been completed, ACM focuses on SIS specification and design, which includes completing the detailed SIS requirements, developing SIS hardware and software specifications and developing SIS testing and integration requirements.
Guided by the principles of IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 (sections 11, 12, 13, 14), ACM services include:
- Develop Safety Requirement Specification
- P&ID Development
- Logic Diagrams and Detailed Logic Definition
- SIS Programming
- Specification Bid Package Development
- Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) Conceptual Design
- Reliability Block Diagrams & SIS Design Modeling
- High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems (HIPPS)
- Cause & Effect Matrices
- Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Verification
- Bill of Materials Generation
Safety System Procurement and Installation Services
ACM also provides SIS procurement and installation assistance to companies:
- SIS Technical Bid Analysis
- Client Interface
- Project Management
- Factory Acceptance Testing
- Site Acceptance Testing
- Startup Assistance
- Site Inspections / Code reviews / Pre-Startup Checks
Safety System Maintenance and Operations Services
ACM helps clients build effective SIL Life Cycle programs that develop, implement and maintain high integrity and critical control systems, thus enabling operations to manage and monitor changes in design and design assumptions.
- Safety Management Systems Development
- Protective System Analysis & Design
- Procedure Development
- Management of Change (MOC)
- Testing Procedures
- Safety System Audits
- SIL Optimization