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.