Process including Gas

Process industries are those where the primary production processes are either continuous or occur on a batch of materials that is indistinguishable.  Such industries include food, beverages, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, ceramics, base metals, coal, plastics, rubber, textiles, tobacco, wood products and paper products, etc.

Our involvement with process industries has primarily been associated with major hazardous facilities – those which store, handle and/or process large quantities of hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods including petroleum products.  Our team has also worked in partnership with companies in the food and beverage sectors.

Process industries face an array of risks including fire, explosion and the release of hazardous chemicals.  These are the key risks that the process industry has to mitigate.  There are both on and offsite consequences of any of these risks eventuating, involving safety and of course, damage to a company’s reputation. 

At R2A, we help companies to minimise these risks, using a precautionary due diligence approach to the management of credible on and off-site risks.  For further information on what we do, please contact us.

Project Overview

Expert desktop review of risk based approaches for Energy Safe Victoria (2009).

R2A was commissioned to develop a briefing paper for Energy Safe Victoria reviewing the current risk-based approaches – particularly ALARA or ALARP – being promoted by some for the high voltage-earthing standard EG (o) and the implications behind such approaches.  The review was completed within the context of common law, and as a result, the proposed national model WHS Act is due to be implemented in Victoria by 1 January 2012.