Health and Safety Executive

Furnace / boilers

The failure modes associated with furnace/boilers are:

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

Corrosion measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving corrosion effects of furnaces/boilers 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 furnaces/boilers are:

Prevention

Control

Mitigation

Design Codes - buildings

Alarms

Emergency response

Design Codes - plant

Explosion relief

Isolation

 

Gas detection

Plant layout (escalation)

 

Trips

PPE

 

Vent systems

Spill treatment

External event measures

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

Prevention Control Mitigation

Design codes - buildings

Flood protection

Emergency response

Design codes - plant

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 furnaces/boilers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Design codes - plant

Alarms

Emergency response

Hazardous area classification

Explosion relief

Isolation

Operating procedures

Gas detection

Plant layout (escalation)

 

Trips

PPE

 

Vent systems

Spill treatment

Human error measures

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

Prevention Control Mitigation

Operating procedures

Alarms

Emergency response

 

Explosion relief

Isolation

 

Gas detection

Plant layout (escalation)

 

Trips

PPE

 

Vent systems

Spill treatment

Impact measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving impact effects of furnaces/boilers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Lifting procedures

Training

Emergency response

Maintenance procedures

 

Isolation

Operating procedures

 

Plant layout (escalation)

Permit to Work

 

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Maintenance faults measures

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

Prevention Control Mitigation

Maintenance procedures

Inspection

Emergency response

 

Permit to work

Isolation

 

Training

Plant layout (escalation)

   

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Overfilling measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving overfilling effects of Furnaces/Boilers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Design codes - plant

Alarms

Emergency response

Operating procedures

Explosion relief

Isolation

 

Trips

Plant layout (escalation)

   

PPE

   

Spill treatment

Structural failure measures

measures to prevent, control or mitigate major accidents involving structural failure effects of furnaces/boilers 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 Furnaces/Boilers 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 furnaces/boilers are:

Prevention Control Mitigation

Change procedures

Alarms

Emergency response

Design codes - plant

Explosion relief

Isolation

 

Gas detection

Plant layout (escalation)

 

Trips

PPE

 

Vent systems

Spill treatment


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