Third Party Independent Peer Review of Process Safety documentation for client in Australia

Steps Taken:

1. Initial Consultation
   • Gather all relevant information and procedures, and documentation from the client about the processes and carry out a formal review.
2. Conduct a gap analysis/audit
   • Carry out a gap analysis/audit on the documentation and processes carried out to ensure no key risks were missing from the documentation regarding process safety.
3. Feedback to the client and further review
   • Finch provided feedback to the client, and a full review was undertaken by the client to update the relevant documentation. Finch then carried out further checks after the changes were made to ensure process safety compliance.

Outcome:

The project identified multiple improvements to procedures and documentation to ensure they are robust and no key risks were missed. The process safety tools used were crucial in:

• Ensuring the client is being legally compliant:
  • HAZOP, LOPA, and Bowtie Analysis were completed and were up-to-date to ensure the client was compliant.
• The risks are as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP):
  • Carry out all the essential actions/recommendations to ensure all the risks are as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP).

Conclusion:

By employing the gap analysis assessment on all key process safety documentation, Finch Consulting enabled the client to gain a thorough understanding of their process risks and establish a strong basis of safety for process safety. This ensures the client adopted a best practice approach to Process Safety for their VAM abatement process.