Publication detail

HAZOP study with qualitative risk analysis for prioritization of corrective and preventive actions

KOTEK, L. TABAS, M.

English title

HAZOP study with qualitative risk analysis for prioritization of corrective and preventive actions

Type

Peer-reviewed article not indexed in WoS or Scopus

Language

en

Original abstract

The objective of the Traditional HAZOP study is (with collaboration of multidisciplinary team of employees of contractor) to identify potential hazards operability issues in process (Hazard and Operability Analysis) and to propose preventing actions. But there can be used also quantitative HAZOP study, which is able to estimate the risks in accordance to multi-factor Risk Assessment. The qualitative HAZOP analysis technique uses a systematic approach to identify possible deviations from normal operations and ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to help prevent accidents with keywords for generating deviations from safe condition. Quantitative HAZOP is based on development of scenarios and finding the causes deviations, to identify safety functions and estimate the final effects, but it more complements the assessment of severity and probability of each scenario – it allows selecting the most important preventive recommendations for implementation.

Keywords in English

HAZOP, qualitative risk analysis, risk priorization

Released

2012-08-24

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd.

Location

Praha

ISSN

1877-7058

Volume

2012

Number

42

Pages from–to

808–815

Pages count

5

BIBTEX


@article{BUT93508,
  author="Luboš {Kotek} and Marek {Tabas}",
  title="HAZOP study with qualitative risk analysis for prioritization of corrective and preventive actions",
  journal="Procedia Engineering",
  year="2012",
  volume="2012",
  number="42",
  pages="808--815"
}