WHAT IS HAZID?
- HAZID study is a tool for hazard identification, used early in a project as soon as process flow diagrams, draft heat and mass balances, and plot layouts are available. Existing site infrastructure, weather, and geotechnical data are also required, these being a source of external hazards.
- This method is a design-enabling tool, acting to help organize the HSE deliverables in a project and the structured brainstorming technique typically involves designer and client personnel engineering disciplines, project management, commissioning and operations.
- Major findings and hazard ratings help to deliver HSE compliance, and form part of the project Risk Register required by many licensing authorities.
HOW IT IS DONE?
The HAZID process follows 4 steps :
- Risk Identification
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Improvement (Management & Reduction)
- Final Risk Checking and Progression to next project phase.
WHY IT IS IMPORTANT ?
- It reveals hazards at an early stage, before they happen and the Hazards are recorded so that they can be avoided, mitigated or highlighted during design.
- It establishes hazard screening criteria which enables you to document non-critical hazards and avoids budget overruns.
- The objective is twofold: the management of HSE risks during the project development and the traceability, as a result of an exhaustive recording, of this risk management.
