Recent =Method Projects

P-3481. FSA 3 of Agrochem site upgrade..

P-3481. FSA 2 of Agrochem site upgrade.

P-3481. FSA 1 of Agrochem site upgrade.

Project to carry out a Stage 2 Functional Safety Assessment (FSA 2) on a new facility, to scale up the manufacture of hydrogen fuel cell components. The assessment assessed the compliance of the project vendors’ functional safety management systems in relation to the delivery of SIS Design (hardware and application programme) and Factory Acceptance Testing.

Project to author Proof Test Procedures for 15 Safety Instrumented Functions. The information generated for the validation (site acceptance testing) of the SIF’s was used as the base data for the proof test procedures, in the absence of SRS data.

A Process Risk Assessment 2 (PRA2) study and associated report for a new herbicide process, with raw material supply from isotankers. The PRA2 was carried out by a multi-disciplinary team comprising representatives from the client and =Method with experience in Process Engineering, Process Operations, Project Engineering and Project Management, Chemistry, and Process Safety. The project was executed in accordance with =Method Safety Plan and followed the client's own PRA procedures.

77 LOPA scenarios were reviewed as part of an ongoing functional safety project.