Session: What Hazard? Successful Approaches to Inherently Safer Design

The tool at the top of the Hierarchy of Controls in reducing process safety risk is Inherently Safer Design (ISD) practices. It is easy to understand the principles of ISD (Minimization, Substitution, Moderation and Simplification) but can be challenging to apply them, especially to existing facilities. This session welcomes papers that share approaches that have been developed and implemented to systematically evaluate the opportunities for ISD and to holistically incorporate ISD principles into an organization’s process safety management practices. Preference will be given to those papers that can support their approach with actual examples of the ISD principles being implemented in new or existing facilities. The audience would also have an interest in learning of what approaches are planned to comply with the US EPA Risk Management Program Safer Technologies and Alternatives Analysis (STAA) or other similar regulatory requirements globally.