Mitigation Measures

Safety Critical Elements can be defined as such parts of an installation and such of its plant (including computer programmes), or any part of those:

  • The failure of which could cause or contribute substantially to a major accident, or;
  • A purpose of which is to prevent, or limit the effect of, a major accident.

This topic relates to post-event (loss of control or containment) mitigation or recovery measures. For information on prevention measures, refer to the following topics (technologies):

ALARMS
FUNCTIONAL SAFETY
PRESSURISED & RELIEF SYSTEMS

The UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) offers guidance of this topic including Fire and Gas Detection, Active Fire Protection & Passive Fire Protection.

The API also provide guidance in RP 2001 “Fire Protection in Refineries”.

This topic relates to the following PSM elements:

RISK ASSESSMENT
EMERGENCY PLANNING

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