Best Practices
A dust explosion can be sudden and catastrophic, causing deaths, injuries, and destruction of entire buildings. In many combustible dust incidents, employers and employees were unaware that such a hazard even existed. Between 1980 and 2005, there were 281 documented combustible dust incidents that resulted in 119 deaths, 718 injuries, and extensive damage to multiple industrial facilities. Those incidents occurred across 44 states, in many different industries, and involved a wide variety of materials. As a result, in 2007 the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) initiated a National Emphasis Program (NEP) to inspect facilities that generate or handle combustible dusts that pose a fire or deflagration hazard when suspended in air, regardless of particle size or shape.
This BakerRisk Best Practice document provides guidance on F&G detector mapping.
This BakerRisk Best Practice document provides general guidance for performing an FSS to ensure that the consequences or risks to people posed by facility operations are thoroughly, accurately, and defensibly quantified and allow consequences or risks to be minimized to the extent practical.
The objective of a HAC analysis is to minimize uncontrolled ignition by electrical equipment or hot surfaces of flammables in air that could lead to fires or explosions resulting in equipment and property damage as well as potential loss of life.
The HF Alkylation process is an important, core process in refinery operations to produce gasoline that meets modern clean fuels and engine performance requirements.
This document provides field tested suggestions and best practices to help bridge the gap between the standards and fire hazard studies.
This BakerRisk Best Practice document provides general guidance for performing highly effective HAZOP studies.
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