Risk Assessment Services

We assist clients identify, analyze, and manage safety and security risks at both fixed facilities and across vari-ous transportation modes. Our services include: • Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) • Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) • Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) • Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) • Safety Integrity Level (SIL) • Event Tree and Fault Tree Analysis • Consequence Model-ing of Chemical Re-leases • Facility Siting • Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) • Security Vulnerability Analysis (SVA) Risk Assessment Services Overview of Risk Assessment Services AcuTech offers process safety, security, and emergency management services that pro-vide our clients with practical, cost effective solutions for their operational risks. AcuTech has an in-depth knowledge, spanning numerous industries, that allows us to support the private sector, government agencies, and other organizations in the identification, analysis and management of complex safety, security and risk issues. AcuTech has wide-ranging experience in all aspects of the risk assessment process for both chemical process safety and chemical facility security. The as-sessment of risk is a process, and AcuTech works in partnership with its clients to identify chemical hazards and security vulnerabilities, facilitate and apply the appropriate risk analysis techniques for the risks iden-tified, and to recommend, prioritize, and review op-tions to manage risk to a level appropriate for each company’s specific risk tolerance. With limited resources, it is not possible for all opera-tions or safety and security risk issues to be evaluated with the most rigorous risk analysis techniques. AcuTech promotes the use of a structured and phased approach to risk analysis that starts with qualitative risk analysis techniques and only elevating the most complex risk issues for full quantitative risk analysis (QRA). This approach enables our clients to efficiently evaluate their operations and apply additional risk analysis resources only when then they are justified, or required. 1600 Tysons Boulevard • Suite 800 • McLean, VA • 22102 | Tel 703.245.3015 | www.acutech-consulting.com PROJECTS: Risk Analysis: • White Paper on Globally Appropriate Criteria for Individual and Societal Risk and a Methodology for Evaluation developed for an international chemi-cal company. • Developed a methodology that is applied to all LNG deepwater port applicants. This transparent method enables the US Coast Guard to analyze risk and justify the final safety and security measures that are required for these projects. Facility Siting: • Numerous studies throughout the chemical and petroleum refining in-dustry following API RP 752 evaluating the risk to building occupants from explosion, fire, and toxic release Consequence Modeling: • Expertise in modeling chemical releases and im-pacts in support of QRAs, refinery upsets, LNG carri-ers and onshore facilities, and other toxic, flammable and explosive hazards. Quantitative Risk Assess-ment: • QRA to evaluate the safety recommendations of an FMEA to address annulus overpressure incidents on the North Slope of Alaska. • QRAs have been con-ducted for world wide chemical, petroleum and hazardous material trans-portation operations. Re-sults have included im-pacts to people and prop-erty, business interruption, and cost benefit analysis of potential mitigation op-tions. Risk Assessment Services AcuTech Uniquely Qualified to Assist Facilities? We are specialists at hazard analysis and risk assessment, and have consider-able experience in assisting companies in understanding and controlling risks. AcuTech’s chemical safety and security advantages include: • Extensive experience leading PHAs including HAZOPs, What-If, What-If/Checklist, LOPAs, SIS, SIL, combined HAZOP & LOPA, combined HAZOP and SIL, as well as FMEA and FTAs. Previous work includes design stage, initial PHA, revalidation, and MOC PHAs. • Members of our staff are recognized experts in their field and have previ-ously worked for a variety of major chemical and petroleum companies, large engineering/construction companies, and federal, state, and local gov-ernment. • Nationally recognized expertise in chemical process security, process safety and risk management with specialization in the petroleum and chemical in-dustries and significant experience in assisting with integrating security, PSM, and RMP implementation for a variety of companies, both large and small. • Extensive Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) experience. Key project leaders have broad based risk assessment experience performing hundreds of assessment projects world wide for chemical facilities, petroleum refiner-ies, petrochemical facilities, storage facilities, and all modes of hazardous material transportation. • Independent Risk Assessment (IRA) contractor to the US Coast Guard (USCG) for six proposed LNG deepwater port (DWP) projects. In addition to the IRAs, AcuTech has worked with the USCG to develop a second phase risk assessment methodology that permits safety and security risks to be evaluated on a consistent basis. This transparent method enables the US Coast Guard to analyze risk and justify the final safety and security meas-ures that are required for these projects. • Use of the latest available computer software for conducting process hazard analyses (quantitative and qualitative), preparing Risk Management Plans, consequence modeling, and implementing expert, real-time emergency re-sponse • Broad experience analyzing petroleum and chemical security vulnerability, including SVAs at sites with marine and offshore operations. • Prime contractor for development of the CCPS© Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites (08/2002), also developed the ACC SVA methodology for Tier 4 sites. • Developed API/NPRA SVA methodology and API Security Guidelines for the Petroleum Industry and the 2nd edition of the API Security Guidelines for the Petroleum Industry to include security for pipelines and other trans-portation modes. • Strong project management skills and a personalized, responsive style of working closely with our clients. We emphasize on-time, cost-effective per-formance, and have a successful track record in meeting this goal. AcuTech has gained this reputation through the services we have provided to some of the largest companies in the industry. 1600 Tysons Boulevard • Suite 800 • McLean, VA • 22102 | Tel 703.245.3015 | www.acutech-consulting.com