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Has PSI Become a Data Management Nightmare?

March 19, 20140

Process Safety Information (PSI) is the foundation of any facility’s risk-based and engineering decisions. But too frequently, limitations associated with PSI management create a data management nightmare. Provenance Consulting is proud to host our third sponsored AICHE live webinar to explore this challenge and offer real-world solutions to overcome it.

Join Provenance employee, Scott Kindy —a process safety management expert—to learn what it takes to build a robust PSI management system in your facility. This live webinar takes place on Wednesday, March 26, 2014, from 1:00 – 2:00pm CST.

In 60 minutes, we’ll examine how PSI has a unique and critical purpose within each department and how, as a result, each department maintains PSI separately. You’ll understand the problem with managing PSI in a vacuum and what happens when verified data and information in one system is rarely leveraged to improve other systems. Plus, you’ll see how different departments often make redundant efforts to validate PSI and PSI source documentation. The webinar goes a step further to describe the ideal PSI management system—how PSI should be stored and maintained in one location, easily accessed by the entire organization, accurate and complete, and linked to reliable documentation. By the end of the session, you’ll know how to build this type of ideal system by striving for accuracy, consistency, traceability, and integration within your current systems.

To register for the AICHE event, simply follow the link:

http://www.aiche.org/resources/chemeondemand/webinars/has-psi-become-data-management-nightmare

 

Realizing the Benefits of a Truly Integrated PHA Process

February 19, 20140

Please join Provenance on Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 1:00 pm CST, for a free live webinar where you’ll learn about the benefits and importance of integrating the Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) process with your Management of Change (MOC) process, conducting a PHA on Capital and Plant Projects, and ensuring the adequacy of the PHA team membership. Provenance Consulting Senior Facilitator, Nestor Paraliticci, welcomes you to this one hour webinar.

Apart from the obvious benefit of identifying hazards and mitigating them before the process is built; PHAs can also be used to identify issues with the design, screen out potential surprises and costly system modifications, and help with budgeting and revenue allocation for the project life cycle. In order to accomplish successful integration and realize the inherent benefits, it is imperative to obtain buy-in from the management team and ensure the adequacy of the Process Hazard Analysis team.

To register for the AICHE hosted event, simply follow the link:

http://www.aiche.org/resources/chemeondemand/webinars/realizing-benefits-truly-integrated-pha-process

 

Introduction to Pressure Relief Systems Webinar

December 31, 20130

Please join Provenance on Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 1:00pm CST, for a free live webinar where you’ll receive an introduction (or a refresher!) to the fundamentals of pressure relieving systems including causes of overpressure, determination of relief loads, methods of pressure relief, and how these concepts are tied together by applicable industry codes, standards, and practices.

Pressure relieving systems are an integral part of any process facility, from offshore production platforms to petrochemical complexes, and usually provide the last line of defense against overpressure and loss of containment. Although ubiquitous, pressure relieving systems are not necessarily well understood by all chemical process engineers. Provenance Consulting engineer, Justin Phillips, will touch on the essential principles of relief systems in this one hour webinar.

To register for the AICHE hosted event, simply follow the link: http://www.aiche.org/resources/chemeondemand/webinars/introduction-pressure-relief-systems