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Written by Bryan Haywood

Parent Category: Safety Info Posts

Category: Chemical Process Safety (PSM/RMP)

Published: 01 August 2013

A common situation we find is that facilities struggle to understand how their "initial start-up" procedure for a new piece of process equipment can/will differ from their other start-up procedures for the equipment (e.g. normal, after a turnaround, after an emergency shutdown, etc.). Recently I have learned of a process used on galvanized condenser coils/tubes that will aid in the "prevention of premature failure of the protective zinc layer on a hot dip or mill galvanized steel"... Galvanized Steel – Passivation. The facility which I was working with just happened to mention it as they had just added some new condensers. Having never heard of it, we took about 30 minutes to discuss if this "treatment" was part of PSM/RMP and where it would fit into PSM/RMP management systems. As it turns out, it has very STRONG linkage to the PSM/RMP efforts and for those that agree that it is part of PSM/RMP, it is a PERFECT example of how an "initial start-up" procedure will be DIFFERENT from the other start-up procedures.

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