1 INTRODUCTION
against personal injury, loss of life, damage to the environment and asset losses due to The scope of this Lesson is to provide guidelines and general requirements needed to protect fire, explosion and operational safety hazards, defining the minimum safety measures required for the NA/Q-PIII Platform design.
The plant has been designed to meet the following targets:
• compliance with the International Rules/Standards HSE and Quality Requirements.
• As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) approach.
The HSE design criteria primarily refer to:
• layout philosophy;
• safety system;
• fire / explosion protection;
• personnel protection;
• environmental protection;
• evacuation / escape system.
Objective of this document is to provide the background HSE information required by the project team to assist them in producing a design where the risks to personnel, the environment and the asset are acceptable according to risk acceptability criteria.
The Safety design objectives are intended to:
• minimise the potential of hazardous occurrences;
• minimise the risk and the consequences of accidental events;
• ensure a safe working environment for personnel;
• ensure that adequate means for personnel protection and escape are provided;
• provide sufficient safety devices and redundancy to isolate and minimize uncontrolled releases of flammable and/or toxic process fluids;
• provide adequate fire protection systems to rapidly detect, control and extinguish any reasonably foreseeable fire which could develop during normal operation;
• minimise the potential for pollution of the environment from accidental spills, venting or flaring of hazardous materials;
• produce a facility design having an acceptable associated risk level, in compliance with risk acceptability criteria;
• provide that assessment and subsequent conclusions and decisions will be transparent and auditable.