Our Services

 

Our experienced chemical engineers can conduct process safety studies to your requirements or the prescribed legislation. Our most frequent requests are listed below;

RISK ASSESSMENTS

Quantitative risk assessments (QRA) for Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) or to client requirements

  • Major Hazard Installation (MHI) risk assessments to the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993 and its MHI regulation
  • Transportation risk assessments
  • Pipeline risk assessments
  • Building risk assessments
  • Aircraft crash analysis

PROCESS HAZARD ANALYSIS

RISCOM can facilitate the process hazard analysis (PHA) studies to your requirements or methodologies supplied by RISCOM;

  • Hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies;
  • Layer of protection analysis (LOPA);
  • Safety integrity level (SIL) in accordance with IEC 61511;
  • What if?;
  • Failure mode effects analysis (FMEA).

 

Studies are recorded on the world renowned PHA Pro software package and presented in a comprehensive and readable report.

 

CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS

The effects from major incidents can be evaluated to potential injuries/ fatalities or damage to asset

Fires:

  • Pool fires
  • Jet fire
  • Fireballs

Air dispersion:

  • Toxic components
  • Asphyxiation components
  • Flash fires and flammability limits

Explosions:

  • Vapour cloud explosions (immediate or from drifting flammable cloud)