ACM Facility Safety services

ACM provides facilitation services for risk assessments in all stages of a facility lifecycle, from Hazard Identification in the design phase through to Revalidation Assessments during the facility operating life. Through both rigorous training and project experience with an extensive list of clients, ACM consultants are experts in a wide range of risk assessments techniques. Further, all ACM consultants have TÜV Rheinland Functional Safety certification in the area of Process Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment. Let ACM’s team of experienced consultants work with you through the following process to ensure an efficient and effective facilitated risk assessment session:

ACM helps clients build effective SIL Life Cycle programs that include the development, implementation and maintenance of high integrity and critical control systems. These programs enable operations to effectively manage and monitor changes in design and design assumptions. Utilizing our proprietary toolsets, guided by the principles of IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 (Clauses 8 through 15), and applying our in-house expertise we help to make sense of the complicated world of safeguard engineering, ensuring facilities remain safe and operable.

One of the biggest challenges for growing companies when building Process Safety Management (PSM) programs or designing facilities is consistency. It is important to have procedures for risk management in place so that each employee understands their responsibilities and so that all actions are performed in a consistent method across any current projects and in all future activities.

The Pre-Safety Start-up Review (PSSR) is a safety assessment that can be conducted on both new and revamped processing/manufacturing facilities to determine whether it is ready for startup. This review ensures that all installations meet the original detailed engineering design and operating intent while considering potential operating hazards. Simply put, is the facility ready for startup with potential hazards identified?

The central tool for risk assessment studies is a Risk Matrix. The matrix defines the boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable risks, and helps lead decision making during the session.

The Safety Culture Self-Assessment is a platform for receiving a diagnostic on your organizations safety culture, the development of a plan to support Process Safety initiatives in the organization, and to improve your foundational knowledge. This is accomplished through a two day workshop which involves field level leaders, the senior operational leaders and the executive support group.

Before heading down the path of developing a process safety management program, it is important for organizations to have clearly defined goals that have been shared and aligned with employees. This is a major stepping stone for success as everyone is knowledgeable of the goal and shares the same mentality. The Strategic Planning Workshops offered by ACM Facility Safety is intended to help clients clearly define the purpose of the activity, determine if the right organizational pieces are involved, and identify whether or not a course correction is required. Strategic planning aims to take today’s impact and profitability and improve it to a future desired state by developing “leap frogs” in order to catch a safety vision.

ACM offers comprehensive contingency planning packages which go hand in hand with our SafeGuard Sentinel software. Contingency plans are developed for safeguards which are assigned risk reduction credit in risk assessment studies. Sentinel and contingency planning together, can reduce training time for new operators, decrease operational risk exposure, allow safeguard failures to be fixed quickly and safely, improve plant uptime, increase production and drive good safety culture.

Benchmark current practice - Undertake and document a ‘gap assessment’ of the organizations functional safety management system against IEC 61508 and IEC61511 to establish the scope of the task.

Facility Siting is used to assess the location of buildings based upon known hazards. ACM is a leading provider of facility siting services, performing many corporate facility siting studies for a wide range of explosion, fire and toxic material hazards in refining, petrochemical and specialty chemical processes.