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 Mon 25/11/2002 14:29

My name is Boel Engelbrecht I am employed by Emergency Management, Sasol Synfuels in Secunda. My fire chief, Pine Pienaar, forwarded your contact details to me. I am an Emergency Management Engineering technician. We are at present busy to re-evaluate the design of our control room doors. These control rooms are typically what one would expect to find in a petrochemical plant were the control room might be subjected to over pressures up to 5psi. These control rooms are also utilized as emergency assemble points during gas releases.

We would like to compare our approach to that of the major petrochemical industries abroad. Would it be possible for you to forward the design criteria and the civil design philosophies used by the major companies e.g. Exxon, ICI, Chevron and BP. looking forward to your assistance.

Thank you

In the UK the Chemical Industries Association have written guidance on:

'The Location and Design of Occupied Buildings on Chemical Manufacturing Sites' 

This is an excellent document and one which may prove helpful in your quest for standards which should be applied for control room buildings.  It may not be as specific as you require, however, it does give useful general requirements.  I have listed below the Contents.  If you wish I will arrange to have a copy sent to you.

Would this be helpful?

Contents

1          Introduction

•           Policy                         
•           Purpose and scope of the guidance          
•           How to apply the guidance            

2        Hazards to people in buildings       

3          Assessing the hazards         

•           Vapour cloud explosion
•           BLEVE           
•           Pressure burst         
•           Exothermic reactions    
•           Toxic gas           
•           Fire         
•           Pool fire
•           Jet fire     
•           Flash fires
•           Fire balls

4      Application to new permanent buildings.

5      Application to existing buildings - an overview of risk assessment.

6      Individual risk tolerability

Appendices

1       Explosion hazards

•   Introduction                   
•   Assessment of explosion hazards .
•   Mitigation and improvement measures     for buildings subject to overpressure
•    Example calculation                                       

2         Vulnerability            

3        Thermal radiation hazards .

•   Assessment for pool fires       
•   Mitigation            
•   Example

4          Toxic gas  

•  Assessment
• Mitigation      

5       Temporary buildings    

Hope this is of help