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What is HAZID?
Definition of HAZID Terminology
Risk Level Factors Based on Frequency
Risk Level Factors Based on Severity
Definition of Risk
Risk Matrix
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Definition of HAZID Terminology
• Hazard: potential source of harm
• hazardous event: incident which occurs when a hazard is
realized. Example : release of gas, fire
• Incident: event or chain of events which cause, or could have
caused, injury, illness and/or damage (loss) to assets, the
environment or third parties
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Risk Level Factors Based on Severity
RISK LEVEL DESCRIPTIVE WORD POTENTIAL
CONSEQUENCES TO
PERSONNEL
5 Catastrophic Multiple deaths
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4 Severe Death
1 Negligible No injury
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Definition of Risk
Risk = Frequency × Severity
or
Risk = Probability × Consequence
• If this product falls between 15 and 25, the risk is considered high.
Severity 1 2 3 4 5
Negligible Minor Serious Severe Catastrophic
Frequency
5 Frequent
4 Probable
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3 Occasional
2 Remote
1 Improbable
Intolerable region
Tolerable region if ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable)
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Interpretation of Risk Matrix Regions
• Risks in the “intolerable” region cannot be justified except in
extraordinary circumstances.
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Example
• The following example of car brakes is an attempt to illustrate the
differences between consequence and cause driven studies.
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• The analysis of the same system using HAZID which uses a guideword
approach could produce the following results:
• The logical end point of this analysis shows that the solution is not always the
addition of hardware and in this example it is the desirability of a diagonal
braking system as fitted on most, if not all, modern cars.
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HAZID Methodology
• HAZID is a qualitative method which depends on the outcome of
guidewords, integration and motivation of participants.
• The first step of the study is to define the safety objectives and
safety/hazard issues for each section of the installation.
• To define the objectives accurately, it is usually necessary to have a
pre-meeting between the Facilitator and the client representative,
who should have a very good all round understanding of the
installation.
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Team Selection
• Typically a HAZID team should include, but not be limited to:
• The balance of the team, its experience and commitment are possibly
the second most important feature after the definition of the guide
words.
• During the study process the layout diagrams will be used to define
the interactions and as a result they must show all equipment with
significant inventory and be sufficiently “uncluttered” such that process
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data like
• Pressure
• Temperature
• Flow
• Capacity
• Composition
• Can be added to the drawing.
understood
an frequency
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Selection of guide-words
• the installations are divided into homogeneous sections, called “areas”.
• For each area a list of guide-words is systematically applied to identify
potential hazards,
• for each hazard, the team determines its potential causes, consequences
and safeguards,
• the team concludes on the scenario acceptability or proposes actions for
improvement or investigation.
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