Process Safety Management Services
Process safety management (PSM) is all about operational risk management – minimising your exposure to risk, incidents, and non-compliance.
Experience you can trust
At ABL, our expert PSM team rely on decades of experience to ensure your compliance with safety regulations. This ranges from the identification of safety and environmentally critical elements (SECE) across millions of equipment tags, to the development of performance standards for international clients across multiple industries.
As the technical authors of global suites of performance standards for oil and gas majors, we are well-positioned to provide process safety management services that help our clients identify and implement risk mitigation tactics, designed to safeguard production and minimise operational expenditure.
Process safety management market challenges
Understanding true levels of operational risk such as Major Accident Hazards (MAH) and how this translates to the operational impact.
Assurance of accurate performance standards and having confidence that safety equipment will function on demand and meet PSM regulations.
Proving compliance with legislative obligation such as COMAH regulations, the SEVESO Directive or their international equivalents.
Integration of integrity indicators into the CMMS/EAM/ERP and poor management of change (MoC) of data, systems, and documentation.
Process safety skills shortages and knowledge gaps in organisations.
Bespoke solutions tailored to your process safety management needs
With years of experience helping clients to meet process safety management regulations, our PSM team have developed bespoke solutions to common challenges encountered throughout the market.
This allows us to address your specific issues directly, rather than trying to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach. With ABL, your concerns are taken into account to create a bespoke action plan that meets – and exceeds – your project goals.
Process safety and risk management
- Third-party benchmarking of safety frameworks, standards, and documentation
- Asset-level risk analysis and management
- Performance standard development and integration into asset performance system
- Bowtie analysis
- Process safety auditing
- Process safety training
- SCE identification and management strategies
- Regulatory compliance review and gap closure assistance
HSEQ management support
- Audits and development of Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ) management system and development of gap closure plans
- Assistance with regulatory approvals process
- HSEQ Training
Integrity management
- Review and optimisation of integrity management frameworks and documentation
- Advise on risk-based inspection (RBI) methodologies to optimise through life integrity management of the asset
- Development of EX Inspection programs
- Supply of ad-hoc technical advisors and subject matter experts
- Training
The value we bring
Gain visibility of your process safety management risk profile and ensure integrity-related equipment is identified in your CMMS, EAM, or ERP for effective risk management.
Implement performance standards and assurance tasks in your CMMS, EAM, or ERP to maintain equipment integrity and effective plant management.
Demonstrate asset integrity and maintain an auditable trail of assurance activities to meet regulatory requirements and maintain your licence to operate.
Identify weakened barriers, deviations, or incomplete work to assess cumulative risk and implement appropriate mitigation actions.
Promote a business-wide safety culture by developing and maintaining a process safety management system through engagement and competence.
Enhance safety and production through data management excellence and effective change management to improve safety metrics and decision-making.
Project Profiles: Process Safety Management
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The 2023 Global Maintenance Manager Report
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