Owners and operators of equipment and plants in metals have an increasing awareness of the need to operate their facilities in a safer and more efficient manner in order to improve business outcomes.
Risk Assessment can be applied to a whole plant and then to individual assets or components. We primarily aim to identify defenses and improvements that can be implemented in order to reduce the risk of major hazards.
Our approach adopts a risk-based methodology to Australian Standard AS 4360. Studies of failures as well as reference to the latest design standards and research has allowed us to develop the Vulnerability Assessment, which considers:
- Deterioration. Corrosion, concrete breakdown, excessive distortions, breakages of control systems or protective devices and equipment maladjustment, etc.
- Extreme factors. Wind, earthquake, flooding, loss of ground support (foundation failure).
- Operational factors. Weight of the structure, the live load on the structure, vibration forces, equipment forces, collisions, etc. as well as failure of items such as ropes, stays and pins and rails which will cause loss of support for a particular component within the structure.
- Safety, access and ergonomic factors. Mistakes, poor practices, poor documentation, poor operator access, poor operator environment, etc.
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