HAZARD OPERABILITY STUDY (HAZOP)

PECMA offers a Hazard & Operability (HAZOP) study in a structured & systematic examination of a planned or exiting process or operation in order to identify & evaluate problems that may represent in order to identify & evaluate problems that may represent risks to personnel or equipment, or prevent efficient operation. PECMA initially offers develop & to analyze chemical process systems, but to later extended to other types of systems & also to complex operations & to software systems.

Different types of HAZOP offered by PECMA are :

•  PROCESS HAZOP

The HAZOP technique was originally developed to asses plants & process systems.

•  HUMAN HAZOP

A family of specialized HAZOPs . More focused on human errors than technical failures.

•  PROCEDURE HAZOP

Review of procedures or operational sequences sometimes denoted SAFOP – Safe operation study

•  SOFTWARE HAZOP

Identification of possible errors in the development of software

Procedure adopted by PECMA for HAZOP: