Hazard Analysis (PHA/DHA/CHA)

ioMosaic Makes Compliance Easy

Our engineers have completed hundreds of PHAs, DHAs, and CHAs for oil fields and pipelines, refineries, pharmaceutical facilities, LNG plants, sterilization facilities, explosive manufacturers, specialty chemical plants, pulp mills, solar power plants, coal-fired power plants, and many more businesses. We can help you comply with internal company standards and global industry standards.

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Process Hazard Analysis

A PHA is required by OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) regulation for PSM-covered processes and NFPA regulations. It is critical to pinpoint weaknesses in the design of facilities and processes that could lead to chemical releases, fires, or explosions. ioMosaic delivers practical, locally compliant solutions to our clients' safety and risk concerns. Protect your most important resources ― your people, your plant, your stakeholder value, and our planet.

Dust Hazards Analysis

A DHA is required by the NFPA 660 Standard for Combustible Dusts, applicable to any facility that handles combustible dust or particulate solids. A catastrophic incident can easily occur without risk management. With a quality DHA from ioMosaic, you can ensure that any design flaws are surfaced and that recommendations are made to address unacceptable risks identified during a DHA.

Construction Hazard Analysis

A CHA is a best practice process to successfully identify and manage process safety type risks associated with construction, high risk maintenance and non routine activities on or near process safety or other high risk assets. A CHA from ioMosaic can help you understand the risks and make decisions to manage it before the work is started to minimize the potential for an incident.

 

How We Can Help You

ioMosaic pioneered many of the current risk assessment techniques for processes that handle hazardous chemicals.

Our experts support every aspect to ensure that your facility runs safely and efficiently.

Expertise to help you minimize your exposure to fire, injury, property damage, and litigation.

Integrating best practices with cost-effective solutions to address program deficiencies.

Helping manage risk with facility siting studies, assessments and recommendations.

Senior knowledgeable engineers facilitate hazard analyses in nearly all sectors of the process and processing industries.

Decades of experience leading incident investigations for process industry companies.

We prepare expert opinion reports and provide expert testimony for process incident cases.

Experienced engineers who have performed LOPAs on a wide range of facilities and terminals.

Our experts are at the forefront of pipeline Process Safety Management proficiency.

Proven track record of performing QRAs for facilities, pipelines and transportation routes.

Well versed in assisting global companies with their sustainability reporting communications.

Decades of experience mitigating hazards for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

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Featured Case Studies

Industrial Gas Facility PHA Revalidation Case Study

In accordance with OSHA PSM regulations, a global manufacturer of industrial gas needed to revalidate their Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) using an on-site and remote approach. This PHA study focused on identifying any significant safety and environmental impacts associated with the facility's liquid nitrogen / gaseous nitrogen system, and the gas, monitoring, and ventilation system. Read the case study to learn the advantages of working with ioMosaic.

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A U.S. manufacturer of pharmaceuticals needed to conduct a process hazard analysis (PHA) of a new alcohol process for them which utilized a variety of highly hazardous materials including hydrogenation, potent compounds, flammable liquids, toxic, and water-reactive chemicals.
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An international personal products manufacturer needed to complete process hazard analyses of their alcohol processes to meet regulatory and company requirements. The process hazard analyses could not be completed until all necessary process safety information was compiled.

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A global chemical manufacturer with a facility in Brazil that manufactures soil fumigants, fungicides, biological inoculants, and specialty fertilizer products needed to conduct a remote Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA). 
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Boost Productivity with PSMPro®

It is critical to identify flaws in the design of facilities and processes that may result in chemical releases, fires, or explosions. Watch a demo of PSMPro and see how this powerful suite of time-saving tools can help you conduct a quality risk analysis. You'll love this software's many features, including a variety of pre-populated compliance templates.

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Our Team

Georges A. Melhem, Ph.D., FAIChE

President & CEO The founder of ioMosaic and internationally renowned expert in the areas of pressure relief and flare systems design, chemical reaction systems, process safety and risk analysis. Read more...

Neil Prophet

Senior Vice President and Partner He brings over 20 years of experience in pressure relief and flare systems design project management and engineering expertise for chemical, pharmaceutical and petrochemical companies. Read more...

Katherine Anderson, CCPSC

Senior Principal Consultant Experienced project leader in hazard identification, evaluation, functional safety, process safety and risk management. Read more...

John Barker, Ph.D.

Director The head of our international offices in the U.K. and the Kingdom of Bahrain and an expert in risk management for oil, gas and transportation. Read more...

Dianne Coon, CSP

Principal Consultant A CSP Certified Safety Professional with 32 years of experience in process safety and health, and safety and environment (HSE) management. Read more...

David Blake

Senior Safety and Risk Management Consultant Over 30 years of experience in process safety and risk management for the chemical processing and government industries. Read more...

Peter Stickles, P.E.

Principal Consultant Senior authority with over 50 years of experience in chemical process safety, petroleum refining and petrochemical technology, and process design. Read more...

Enio Kumpinsky, Ph.D.

Principal Consultant Senior authority with over 35 years of diversified experience in process safety in the chemical manufacturing industry. Read more...

Hamed M.H. Al Nahawi

Senior Consultant Chemical engineer focused on pressure relief and flare system design and analysis for large chemical and petrochemical companies. Read more...

Anna Shinkawa

Senior Safety and Risk Management Consultant Over 12 years of experience managing and executing PRFS design, risk analysis, and PSM audits for chemical and petrochemical companies in the U.S. Read more...

Christian Sarno

Senior Safety and Risk Management Consultant Focuses on quantitative risk assessment (QRA), facility siting, pressure relief and flare system (PRFS) design and analysis for chemical and utility companies. Read more...

Judy A. Perry, CCPSC

Principal Consultant A Certified Process Safety Professional with over 35 years of diverse expertise in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as over 30 years in process safety and operations management. Read more...

Karen Jawich, PMP

Safety and Risk Management Consultant Chemical and HSE engineer experienced in risk assessment, environmental safety, and auditing in Europe and the Middle East. Read more...

Featured Resources

The Impact of Quality on the Effectiveness of Process Hazard Analysis

Despite investment of considerable resources to conduct process hazard analyses (PHAs), many companies are still experiencing a high rate of incidents and find that the causes of these incidents have not been identified and/or addressed in their PHAs. Read this white paper to learn why quality issues can have a serious impact on the effectiveness of PHAs.

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Featured Services

Compliance Auditing

Integrating best industry practices into the performance-based expectations of PSM compliance programs with cost-effective solutions to address program deficiencies. Read more...

Facility Siting

Our experienced personnel help manage risk with facility siting studies, plant facilities assessments and recommendations. Read more...

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