Process Safety Management and its Affect on Project Success

Description: The presentation is well suited for personnel involved in the cost and scheduling of oil & gas production, pipelines, refining and petrochemical manufacturing systems. The facility owner deals with Process Safety Management, PSM, in the Front End Engineering Design, FEED, and phases 1 through 3 and in PSSR/close out phase 6. The EPC contractor usually deals with PSM in phases 3 and detailed design, phase 4.

In the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries various owners interpret OSHA 1910, Hazards Communication, in different ways. Some owners want to perform some of these activities themselves, and some want to subcontract parts to specialists (such as hazards and operability, HazOps, review facilitation). The Project Manager must interpret if the owner is performing the minimum required. If not, that scope must be included in the project management plan. This may be a contract negotiation issue. But, in the final analysis, the engineer must have the safety information in his hands to be able to give back to the owner how the engineer’s design affects the safety of the operating facility.

Speaker: Charles Waligura, PE, PMP

Track: Oil, Gas, and Renewable Energy