Best Practices
The objective of the Hazardous Area Classification (HAC) analysis, also known as Electrical Area Classification (EAC), is to identify and classify a 3-dimensional region, space, or location within a facility that handles flammable/combustible material. 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.
Implementation of HAC in processing facilities impacts the design and operation of potential ignitable atmospheric concentrations in air by characterizing and documenting locations within the facility that require ignition source controls of varying degrees. This encompasses petroleum, chemical, and other industrial operations that utilize flammable gas, flammable vapors, combustible liquids, or combustible dusts (aka “flammables”).
This BakerRisk Best Practice document provides guidance on F&G detector mapping.
A dust explosion can be sudden and catastrophic, causing deaths, injuries, and destruction of entire buildings.
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 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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