Session: Improving Process Hazard Analysis Techniques

Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) techniques continue to evolve. Challenges for PHAs include staff turnover, reduced tolerance of acceptable risk, and incorporation of new requirements from the recently updated RMP rule. As new staff learn to facilitate PHAs, additional or expanded topics such as natural hazards, safer technology assessments, and siting studies must be folded into the analysis. Also, improved PHA software, AI generated scenarios and responses, and standardized PHA templates have the potential to make PHAs more efficient and thorough. This session will demonstrate some of these new techniques and how they can be used to have more efficient and thorough hazard analyses.