PHA Capabilities

Process Hazard Analysis (HAZOP) studies are used to systematically identify and understand the hazards and risks of processes. The results of these studies help prioritize actions, enable informed decision making, and allocate resources to reduce risk to an acceptable level. These studies can be both standards and regulatory program driven for example;

• OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM – US OSHA 1910.119),
• EPA’s Risk Management Plan (RMP – EPA 40 CFR Part 68),
• Responsible Care Management System® (RCMS®),
• The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z1002 Standard “Occupational health and safety – Hazard identification and elimination and risk assessment and control” – CCOHS
• Code of Practice on Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) United Kingdom.

Performed by an experienced and appropriate team, systems must be in place to conduct the study, track related engineering documents, recommendations, document resolutions, and take timely corrective actions.

Organizations have conducted PHA studies for many years now yet common deficiencies persist such as actions not documented, not resolved, not tracked and show up again on future PHA’s. Missing reviews of hazards associated with piping / non-documented changes to piping, missing Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), Re validation Mistakes, out of data codes and standards, poorly identified hazards during startup, shutdown, online maintenance, and miss damage mechanisms such as corrosion, erosion, external impacts / stresses, vibration, and others.

One way to improve the outcome of your PHA study investment is to utilize software. Our next generation software offers ways to improve the outcome of PHA (HAZOP) study investments. Attracting and keeping the next generation of engineers requires software designed to bring your process safety and risk management team together with leading metrics dashboards that include,

• PHA actions open, overdue, completed,
• PHA’s Scheduled vs. completed,
• Status of PHA/incident recommendations,
• Status of scheduled PHA re validations.

Below are benefits of Sharrix Software

• Support standardization and consistency of PHA (HAZOP, What If, JHA) studies
• Automate workflow processes to align with your organizations performance standards
• Reduce time needed by study leaders, scribes, and participants to conduct, document and close out studies
• Standardized Risk Libraries that keep language common across studies and speed access to Process Materials, Process Conditions, Physical Design, Equipment, Control Systems, SOP’s, Maintenance Practices, and Protective Measures.
• Easily work with Sharrix Partners (consultants, auditors, and other technical experts) by exporting and importing studies

• Open Architecture – and a flexible set of deployment options, from SaaS to customer site deployment.
• Quickly connect with ERP, Work Order, Incident, Maintenance, and Process Historians.
• Collaboration with document management software to quickly access Operating Procedures, control documents, procedures and other content.
• Display risks with leading P&ID and 3d visualization software applications.
• Keep studies standard by linking with the Master Management Strategy – company hierarchy, equipment, products, and process information.

• Capture performance measures within and across PHA studies and risk reduction activities that document progress against performance standards.
• Report results across the organizational hierarchy process, product, equipment, facility, business unit, enterprise.
• Improve the development of  operating procedures, training, mechanical integrity program, and emergency response plans

• Eliminate IT shadow spend from multiple PHA / HAZOP / JHA / WHAT IF / HAZID desktop applications license and maintenance fees.
• Lower cost of future studies – planning, meeting, documentation, and follow up time
• Reduce the cost of hardware and maintenance with cloud delivery
• Reduce preventable problems. Better use of risk studies results in higher reliability, better quality, increased safety, and enhanced customer satisfaction.

• Know and show actions are completed for each study with mobile task management.
• Display risks through Engineering software tools (e.g. Intelligent P&ID and Plant 3D Simulation).
• See information about products, processes, equipment and performance.
• Provide reports across a knowledge base of studies and lessons learned from past studies.
• Preserve the wide range of professional knowledge bases available to enable you to complete more thorough research and analysis.

• Business Oriented, Process Based (use our MOC applications or connect with 3rd party)
• Utilize Dynamic Risk Modeling to quickly improve your study approach
• Software and Hardware standards are always changing use software designed to operate in a multi device environment.
• Adjust dates for risk reduction action completion based on budget approval plans

Sharrix also supports the following industry standard models

• Hazard And Operability Analysis- HAZOP
• Fault Tree / WhatIF / Checklist
• Preliminary Hazard Analysis – PrHA
• Layers of Protection Analysis – LOPA
• Safety Integrity Level- SIL
• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point – HACCP
• HAZID ENVID