Hazards Analysis, Code Compliance & Procedure Development

Services to identify process safety hazards and facilitate compliance with established standards and codes.

Combustible Dust Testing

Laboratory testing to quantify dust explosion and reactivity hazards

Flammable Gas & Vapor Testing

Laboratory testing to quantify explosion hazards for vapor and gas mixtures

Chemical Reactivity Testing

Laboratory testing to quantify reactive chemical hazards, including the possibility of material incompatibility, instability, and runaway chemical reactions

ISO Accreditation and Scope
Fauske & Associates fulfills the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in the field of Testing
DIERS Methodology

Design emergency pressure relief systems to mitigate the consequences of unwanted chemical reactivity and account for two-phase flow using the right tools and methods

Deflagrations (Dust/Vapor/Gas)

Properly size pressure relief vents to protect your processes from dust, vapor, and gas explosions

Effluent Handling

Pressure relief sizing is just the first step and it is critical to safety handle the effluent discharge from an overpressure event

Thermal Stability

Safe storage or processing requires an understanding of the possible hazards associated with sensitivity to variations in temperature

UN-DOT

Classification of hazardous materials subject to shipping and storage regulations

Safety Data Sheets

Develop critical safety data for inclusion in SDS documents

Biological

Model transport of airborne virus aerosols to guide safe operations and ventilation upgrades

Radioactive

Model transport of contamination for source term and leak path factor analysis

Fire Analysis

Model transport of heat and smoke for fire analysis

Flammable or Toxic Gas

transport of flammable or toxic gas during a process upset

OSS consulting, adiabatic & reaction calorimetry and consulting

Onsite safety studies can help identify explosibility and chemical reaction hazards so that appropriate testing, simulations, or calculations are identified to support safe scale up

Mechanical, Piping, and Electrical

Engineering and testing to support safe plant operations and develop solutions to problems in heat transfer, fluid flow, electric power systems

Battery Safety

Testing to support safe design of batteries and electrical power backup facilities particularly to satisfy UL9540a ed.4

Hydrogen Safety

Testing and consulting on the explosion risks associated with devices and processes which use or produce hydrogen

Spent Fuel

Safety analysis for packaging, transport, and storage of spent nuclear fuel

Decommissioning, Decontamination and Remediation (DD&R)

Safety analysis to underpin decommissioning process at facilities which have produced or used radioactive nuclear materials

Laboratory Testing & Software Capabilities

Bespoke testing and modeling services to validate analysis of DD&R processes

Nuclear Overview

Our Nuclear Services Group is recognized for comprehensive evaluations to help commercial nuclear power plants operate efficiently and stay compliant.

Severe Accident Analysis and Risk Assessment

Expert analysis of possible risk and consequences from nuclear plant accidents

Thermal Hydraulics

Testing and analysis to ensure that critical equipment will operate under adverse environmental conditions

Environmental Qualification (EQ) and Equipment Survivability (ES)

Testing and analysis to ensure that critical equipment will operate under adverse environmental conditions

Laboratory Testing & Software Capabilities

Testing and modeling services to support resolution of emergent safety issues at a power plant

Adiabatic Safety Calorimeters (ARSST and VSP2)

Low thermal inertial adiabatic calorimeters specially designed to provide directly scalable data that are critical to safe process design

Other Lab Equipment and Parts for the DSC/ARC/ARSST/VSP2 Calorimeters

Products and equipment for the process safety or process development laboratory

FERST

Software for emergency relief system design to ensure safe processing of reactive chemicals, including consideration of two-phase flow and runaway chemical reactions

FATE

Facility modeling software mechanistically tracks transport of heat, gasses, vapors, and aerosols for safety analysis of multi-room facilities

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What is a Facility Siting Assessment?

Posted by The Fauske Team on 07.19.19

A site assessment can involve a number of cross discipline elements to assess the costs, risks and health of the occupants. The various elements focus on the identification of hazards, the characterization of those hazards and delivering a mitigation strategy.

Facility Siting Assessment TeamSiting Assessment Elements

  • Facility Siting
  • Process Hazards Analysis (PHA)
  • Dust Hazards Analysis (DHA)
  • Fire Risk Assessment (FRA)
  • Quantitative Risk Assessment (ALARP)
  • Security Strategy Review

Facility siting assessments engineering firms evaluate the potential damage that a workplace explosion, fire, or release of toxic chemical could cause to every occupied building in the work area. Many safety standards (including OSHA 19 29 CFR 1910.119) require that facility siting is addressed as part of the process hazard analysis.

Facility siting assessments are beneficial when:

  • Designing/Modifying Buildings/Unit Operations Layouts
  • Evaluating Location of Air-intake for HVAC Systems
  • Developing Risk Mitigation Strategies

A proper siting analysis considers the hazards that are specific to the identified workplace and evaluates the risk in the context of the environmental conditions of the existing or proposed work site. A key task is identifying credible worst case scenarios. These may include:

  • Dust Hazard / Explosion Analysis
  • Jet Fire Risk Analysis
  • General Fire Risk Analysis
  • Liquid Release to Vapor Cloud Analysis
  • Atmospheric Relief Dispersion Analysis
  • Combustible Gas Analysis in Rooms and Compartments
  • Asphyxiant Concentration
  • Pure Oxygen Release and Migration
  • Chemical Compatibility in the Event of Unintended Chemical Communication

Process Hazards Analysis (PHA)

A PHA is a systematic evaluation of the hazards involved in a process and is required for initiation of a process and for ongoing process operations. Process safety/nuclear safety engineering and testing lab offers a full range of PHA services using a variety of techniques including:

  • Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Analysis
  • What-if Checklists
  • Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  • Quantitative Risk Assessments (such as layer of protection analysis)

Fire Risk Assessment (FRA)

Performing a quantitative fire/explosion hazard analyzes the facility’s vulnerabilities to fire by identifying, characterizing, and partitioning ignition sources as well as evaluating mitigation strategies and proposing potential recommendations.

Quantitative Risk Assessment (ALARP)

As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) is a decision-making logic that, when applied correctly in quantitative risk assessments, results in actions or designs balanced between benefit and cost or effort. The ALARP concept requires applying the notions of reasonability and practicability. It is difficult to clearly define what is reasonable and practicable, but simply put, the process of assessing the risks to be ALARP is an assessment of the safety benefits against the expense of implementing the option to determine if the level of risk is tolerable.

Facility Siting Assessment
The ALARP Principle - Balancing the Expenses and Benefits
 

Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA)

A full service process safety engineering lab and testing service offers a wide range of DHA services to support a variety of industries including combustible dust testing, onsite assessments, OSHA and NFPA compliance assistance, audit preparation, training, ignition source evaluation and vent sizing calculations.
 
 

Security Strategy Review

Security strategy support from initial development to upgrades/reviews of target set analyses, vulnerability assessments, security system specifications and strategy reviews in order for facilities to protect critical infrastructure elements from adversary attacks in a cost effective manner provide key reviews.
 
Look for a process safety and nuclear safety engineering lab and testing service with extensive experience in evaluating, characterizing, and mitigating identified hazards. A legacy to support hazards analysis and the systems used to mitigate those hazards, starting with its inception as a leading member of the Design Institute for Emergency Relief Sizing (DIERS), part of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE). A comprehensive service offering includes the ability to evaluate both facility plans and existing facility locations for hazards, and is complemented by extensive laboratory testing suite and simulation/modelling capabilities. Staff should be well positioned to address a variety of different hazards across multiple industries.
 
If you are interested in reading more abut dust hazards analysis, check out our 3 step approach by clicking below. 
FAI's 3 Step Approach to DHA

Topics: dust hazard, process hazards analysis, DHA, testing, Alarp, fire risk assessment, quantitative risk assessment

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