Health and Safety Executive

Dryers

The failure modes associated with Dryers are:

The technical measures that may be appropriate for each of these failure modes are identified in each of the above links.

Air Ingress measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving air ingress effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Operating procedures

Explosion relief

Emergency response

Reliability of utilities

Sampling

Isolation

 

Training

Plant layout (escalation)

   

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Corrosion measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving corrosion effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Coatings

Corrosion monitoring

Emergency response

Selection of materials

Inspection

Isolation

   

Plant layout (escalation)

   

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Design fault measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving design fault effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Design codes - buildings

Inspection

Emergency response

Design codes - plant

Relief systems

Isolation

 

Vent systems

Plant layout (escalation)

   

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Erosion measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving erosion effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Selection of materials

Inspection

Emergency Rresponse

 

Leak detection

Isolation

   

Plant layout (escalation)

   

PPE

   

Spill treatment

External event measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving external event effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Design codes - plant

Flood protection

Emergency response

Design codes - buildings

Lightning protection

Isolation

 

Relief systems

Plant layout (escalation)

 

Wind loading protection

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Fire/explosion measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving fire/explosion effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Design codes - plant

Active Fire protection

Isolation

Earthing

Alarms

Emergency response

Inerting

Explosion relief

Plant layout (escalation)

Hazardous area classification

Trips

PPE

Product testing

Vent systems

Spill treatment

Human error measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving human error effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Operating procedures

Alarms

Emergency response

 

Control systems

Isolation

 

Training

Plant layout (escalation)

   

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Impact measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving impact effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Lifting procedures

Leak detection

Emergency response

Maintenance procedures

Training

Isolation

Operating procedures

 

Plant layout (escalation)

Permit to work

 

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Impurities measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving impurities effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Operating procedures

Alarms/trips

Emergency response

 

Relief systems

Isolation

 

Sampling

Plant layout (escalation)

 

Training

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Maintenance faults measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving maintenance faults effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Maintenance procedures

Inspection

Emergency response

 

Leak detection

Isolation

 

Permit to work

Plant layout (escalation)

 

Training

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Overheating measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving overheating effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Design Codes - plant

Alarms

Emergency response

Maintenance procedures

Training

Isolation

Operating procedures

Trips

Plant layout (escalation)

Reliability of utilities

Vent systems

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Overpressurisation measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving overpressurisation effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Design codes - plant

Alarms

Emergency response

Maintenance procedures

Relief systems

Isolation

Operating procedures

Training

Plant layout (escalation)

Reliability of utilities

Trips

PPE

 

Vent systems

Spill treatment

Structural failure measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving structural failure effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Design codes - buildings

Inspection

Emergency response

Design codes - plant

 

Isolation

   

Plant layout (escalation)

   

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Vibration measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving vibration effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Design codes - plant

Inspection

Emergency response

 

Maintenance procedures

Isolation

 

Training

Plant layout (escalation)

   

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Wrong/defective equipment measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving wrong/defective equipment effects of Dryers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Change procedures

Alarms/trips

Emergency response

Design codes - plant

Leak detection

Isolation

 

Relief systems

Plant layout (escalation)

 

Training

PPE

   

Spill treatment

05 May 2006 10:13:16 +0100

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