Process Safety Engineer

B.Venkata Harinath

Dept. Env. Engg, CIFT Building, PDIL, Sindri, JH- India 828122 - +91-943******* ******.********@*****.***

Position

Summary: A competent Process Safety professional with 5 years of rich hands-on industrial experience in chemical process safety management and environment engineering, contributing to the development and deployment of a sustainable and effective risk-based Process Safety Management system to ensure safe operation of the company in order to protect the public and employees, the environment and property.

Skills

Process Safety & Risk Management

Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA)

Consequence and Risk Analysis

HAZID/HAZOP

PHAST and PHAST RISK v6.7

Review of PFDs and PIDs

Safety and Environment standards

Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling

OSHAS, EMS

PSM audits

Work Experience

Projects and Development India Ltd. Process Safety Engineer

2015 – Present

The work profile span from experience with renowned Oil & Gas companies and other process industries is to:

Review process flow diagrams (PFDs) and process piping & instrument diagrams (PIDs) to identify/evaluate major hazards.

Prepare and scribe for HAZOP and HAZID via reviewing the relevant documents (e.g. PFDs, PIDs, process cause and effects, operating philosophy, process control narrative, process safeguarding report, etc.).

Detail or coarse Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) studies onshore.

Perform consequence analysis (fire, explosion, gas dispersion modeling, heat radiation studies and prepared fire zones hazard maps), hazard impact assessment reports and recommendations for safe design.

Perform Risk analysis (individual and societal risk). Incident investigation and root cause analysis.

Process area safety concepts, studies and layouts including firefighting and fire protection, personnel protection, hazardous area classification, passive fire protection and fire zoning, safety sign, escape routes and emergency response studies.

Knowledge in safety performance standards and ability to prepare associated reports.

Fire water flow rate estimation for storage tanks and wagon loading gantry.

Experienced in wide range of safety standards and references such as NFPA, OSHA, OISD guidelines.

Expert in technical software: Phast, Phast risk, AERMOD/ISCST3.

Dalmia Bharat Cement Ltd. Asst.Manager-EHS

2013 – 2015

Conducted and coordinated safety and first aid training to educate workers about safety policies, laws, and practices.

Prepared Hazard identifications and Risk assessment (HIRA) for all the departmental activities.

Conducted environmental & safety audits. Interacted and assisted well during the external audits by regulatory boards/inspectors.

Imparted training to operation and maintenance personnel on environmental and safety aspects and impacts to control the level of pollution as well as ensuring the zero accidents in the plant.

Performed Incident investigation and root cause analysis.

Implemented the Integrated Management Systems (IMS- ISO 9001:2008, EMS 14001:2004, OHSAS 18001:2007) and Work permit systems.

Regularly reported to higher authorities and corporate personnel about the emissions and took approvals for suitable changes made in the process.

Identify and communicate personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements and train the employees to ensure that the PPE requirements are properly implemented and enforced.

Conducted monthly EHS meetings, Workshops, Presentations, emergency exercise drills, weekly EHS meeting & site inductions.

Grass Roots Research Centre India Pvt. Ltd. Asst.Manager-Tech Services

2012– 2013

Prepared and presented Environmental Impact assessment study reports (emission reports, field sampling and testing reports) to regulatory bodies.

Prepared presented Risk assessment studies and Disaster Management Plan (DMP).

Worked out and presented suitable remedial plan and control technologies for pollution prevention of air and water.

Advised project proponent on interpretation and application of regulations and industry practices related to environmental and safety compliance requirements.

Performed emission calculations and dispersion modeling using ISCST3.

Indian School of Mines Environment Engineer (Pursuing)

2011– 2012

Observed the fate and behavior of Ammonical Nitrogen in Coke oven effluents using Activated Sludge Process (ASP).

Setup of laboratory reactors for the treatment of Ammonical Nitrogen.

Estimated and studied the behavior of the pollutant in different HRT’s.

Education & Certifications

Indian School of Mines (now IIT-ISM), Dhanbad, India

Masters in Environmental Science and Engineering

2010 – 2012

OGPA – 7.43/10

CBIT affiliated to Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Bachelors in Chemical Engineering

2005-2009

OGPA – 7.13/10

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