It is the year 2021 and OSHA’s Process Safety Management standard will be 29 years old this May. Most processing facilities have come a long way in improving their process safety, but most still lack a comprehensive WRITTEN management program for their Safety Controls, Alarms, and Interlocks (SCAI). These safety instrumented systems (SIS) play a critical role in almost all of the PSM/RMP covered processes operating today, yet when asked to explain how these systems were chosen, designed, built, and maintained the answers can be quite worrisome. Like all of our process safety management systems, we need them to be documented so that if the current PSM/RMP team wins a lottery and fails to show up to work tomorrow, management is not in the dark when it comes to these critical safety systems. In comes FM Global and their FREE Property Loss Prevention Data Sheets, specifically 7-45 Safety Controls, Alarms, and Interlocks (SCAI). This datasheet can be downloaded and easily revised to form your baseline WRITTEN management program for the Safety Controls, Alarms, and Interlocks (SCAI) already in place in our processes and any new ones that we may find a need for in the future. Heck, this data sheet can even be used for our non-processing equipment that has interlocks associated with them. Here are some HIGHLIGHTS that Global FM explains so well:
FM Global to the rescue once again with their Data Sheet 7-45 – Safety Controls, Alarms, and Interlocks (SCAI)
