CONSULTING SERVICES
Making a right decision about process safety is Consequential
Often questions about how to tackle intriguing process safety issues, such as fire & explosion hazards of Combustible Dust, Flammable Liquids & Gases, and Chemical Reaction Hazards, will arise in situations like:
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Launching a new product or formulation;
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Building a new plant
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Expanding or revamping an existing plant;
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Acquiring new equipment;
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Implementing a new process technology;
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Replacing raw materials with alternatives;
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Reconstructing a plant after an incident; or
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Evaluating the effectiveness and feasibility of a fire or explosion safety equipment or system.
A right decision about a process safety can avoid:
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Injuries & fatalities;
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Property damages;
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Noncompliance;
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Expensive litigations;
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Costly insurance; and
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Business interruptions and losses.
How Can We Help
Armed with the needed Knowledge, Expertise, Experience, Sound Judgment and a Pragmatic Approach in this field over three decades, our experts are ready to advise, validate and/or reassure the optimal and hard-to-make decisions with the best tailored, most practical, and most cost-effective solutions for your process safety needs. Our consulting services include but are not limited to the subject areas listed below.
Why Work with Us
We are proud to say that the clients who consulted with us never came back with the same problem again, owing to:
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Deep insights into the process safety through consulting, litigations, hazard and risk assessments, incident investigations, testing of fire and explosion hazard properties, and fire and explosion safety trainings;
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Ability to navigate complex problems efficiently through the lens of fire and explosion science, engineering, regulations, codes and standards, and process safety management;
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Extensive expertise and proven experience to address and develop practical solutions to process safety issues efficiently and cost-effectively; and
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Over 30 years of global experiences throughout diversified industries, which involves hundreds of process safety and fire and explosion safety projects.
According to NFPA 652, if your facility manufactures, processes, handles combustible powders, or a process that generates combustible dusts, you are required to perform Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA).
We provide effective & comprehensive DHA to ensure compliance with OSHA, NFPA 652 and other codes & standards, and offer effective and practical solutions to prevent and mitigate the dust explosion hazards and risks.
Our experts will help keep this threat away from your facilities with extensive and in-depth expertise and experiences on controlling combustible dust hazards, various ignition sources, flame propagation and mitigation of potential dust fire & explosion consequences.
Flammable liquids and gas are very easy to ignite, and are quick to spread in space, and therefore, pose serious threats of gas/vapor flashfires and explosions. Flammable & combustible liquids also support stationary fires above liquid surfaces, which can cause extensive equipment & property damages.
Our experts will help keep this threat away from your facilities with extensive and in-depth expertise and experiences on controlling various ignition sources, flame propagation and mitigation of potential fire & explosion consequences.
STATIC ELECTRICITY
Static electricity appears to be unpredictable as an ignition source to gases, liquids and even dusts in both industrial processes and our everyday activities. Sometimes, where an ignition source cannot be identified, static electricity may be blamed to be the culprit for an incident.
Our experts will help determine the true hazards of static electricity in your process to ensure no unexpected fire and explosion incident may happen in the future. Our experts possess extensive & in-depth expertise and experiences on static hazard assessment, testing, successful static ignition incident investigations.
Some materials start to self-heat at temperatures far below their "flaming" ignition temperatures. The self-heating process can last for hours and even days, and eventually results in an ignition with flame or smoldering with heat and heavy smoke generation. Due to the spontaneity and long incubation period, spontaneous ignition/combustion often removes human's alertness and strikes suddenly with fires and explosions.
Our experts have been working on this complex and intriguing fire hazard with proven successes in testing, interpretation of lab test and & scale-up, industrial spontaneous combustion incident investigations, and the abatement of this hazard in various industries.
Electrical equipment/devices, if not designed and constructed adequately, can give rise to ignitions of a flammable gases, liquids and combustible dusts. Apparently, an electrical equipment specifically designed to prevent ignition sources is more expensive. Electrical Arta Classification, defined by the National Electrical Code (NEC/NFPA 70), is aimed at an optimized solution to select electrical equipment around sources of flammable gases, liquids and combustible dusts. The decision about electrical area classification can be consequential to fire and explosion safety, plant operations, project costs, and compliance.
Our experts will assist clients to make most optimal decisions about electrical area classifications, which are affected by the materials, equipment design, operations and process conditions. Our advices will be based on extensive expertise and experiences on hazard and risk assessments, incident investigations, code and standard reviews, and litigations.
COMPLIANCE REVIEW
Achieving compliance with OSHA regulations, fire codes, building codes, and standards (such as NFPA) cannot avoid navigating through the expansive and branching web of codes and standards, in order to develop a reliable and successful strategies and paths toward compliance. In addition, because codes and standards are constantly evolving, one has to be continually updated with code and standard developments. Moreover, scientific, technical and operational factors of your facility have to be considered.
Our experts will assist clients to make most effective and cost effective compliance review by evaluating all relevant factors.
Our review and advice will be based on:
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Our expert's NFPA standard-making experience as technical committee members;
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Extensive expertise and experiences on (1) fire and explosion science; (2) hazard and risk analysis; (3) incident investigations; (4) code and standard reviews; and (5) litigations.
PHA is a systematic study to identify potential process hazards, such release of toxic chemicals, chemical reaction hazards, fires, and explosions, rank the risk, and recommend safety measures/actions to eliminate or minimize these hazards and risks.
Considering the growing complexity of today’s manufacturing processes, it may be challenging for many organizations to master all aspects of PHA.
Our experts will support your PHA by bringing our expertise and experience in hazardous properties of materials, consequences of unplanned releases, ignition hazards, PHA methodologies, understanding of your operations, typical process equipment, and process safety management.
For PSM covered facilities, a compliant and effective OSHA PSM Programs will ensure safety and efficient operations.
Our experts will assist clients to make most optimal decisions about electrical area classifications, which are affected by the materials, equipment design, operations and process conditions. Our advices will be based on extensive expertise and experiences on hazard and risk assessments, incident investigations, code and standard reviews, and litigations.