Oil and Gas

Design and assessment of protective systems

Protective systems are the barriers that are put in place to prevent incidents happening, or escalating or causing harm. They are the cheese slices in James Reason’s Swiss cheese model. 

ABB provides services and systems for individual protective systems or across all of the layers of protection for a particular event and include; designing systems, checking / reviewing existing designs or new ones done by others, providing design procedures & standards & training, providing maintenance & testing procedures, performing barrier health checks or tests.

Often the overall protection is described through a bow-tie diagram to help understanding by non-technical staff.

Our services are very wide ranging and cover many types of protection including:

Downloads and multimedia

Service description
Barrier management
Service description
SafetyInsight™ SIF designer module
Service description
Effective alarm management - managing alarm floods
Webinar
Reduce your proof test burden - functional safety
Webinar
Alarm rationalisation and its practical impact
Webinar
Identifying 'holes' in your process safety barriers

Highlights

Training course
Effective alarm management
Training course
IEC 61508-61511 SIL determination
Training course
Advanced hazard assessment techniques for SIL determination
Training course
Mechanical legislation awareness - PSSR/PED & PUWER
Training course
Pressure relief
Training course
Pressure relief - the practitioners course
Learning and development
Process safety videos and webinars
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