This paper will concentrate on the involvement of fire protection engineering in the mitigation phase of a process safety program.
Fire protection engineers assess the nature and magnitude of hazards and the selection of fire protection strategies which can be applied to reduce the risk to an acceptable level.
While acceptable levels of risk may be implicitly included in codes and standards,engineering analyses may also be conducted to determine the level of risk provided by a potential incident and how such compare to the acceptable level of risk determined by managers. The engineering analysis of risk will need to assess the hazards generated by identified scenarios (as well as the probability of the respective scenarios) and the performance of proposed fire protection strategies in response to those scenarios.