We’ve been commissioned to develop a set of cards based on the Initiating Events (IE) and Independent Protection Layers (IPL) from the AIChE – American Institute of Chemical Engineers CCPS LOPA Book (Layer of Protection Analysis: Simplified Process Risk Assessment) which has been industry best practice for over 20 years.
The following references have been operationalised & visualised to aid stakeholder understanding and recurrent engagement i.e. not just frontline personnel who interact with hazards & protection measures but also those who are responsible for their implementation, modification & oversight.
- Initiating Events (Table 5.1)
- Passive IPLs (Table 6.3)
- Active IPLs (Table 6.4)
- Human Action IPLS (Table 6.5)
- Probability of Ignition (Figure 7.1)
Table 5.1 concludes with the following note:
Individual companies should choose their own values, consistent with the degree of conservatism of the company’s risk tolerance criteria. Failure rates can also be greatly affected by preventive maintenance (PM) routines
The LOPA ‘Onion’ represents a multitude of independent protection measures:
This is illustrated as a series of prevention & mitigation bowtie barriers as follows:
The original CCPS LOPA Book (published in 2001) is now supplemented by Guidelines for Initiating Events and Independent Protection Layers in Layer of Protection Analysis:
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