Fire Safety Concept & Strategy

The document that decides everything downstream — and the one most often written last.

What it establishes

  • The inventory: media, states, quantities, handling operations
  • Hazard identification and the credible fire and explosion scenarios
  • Protection philosophy: prevention, detection, control, suppression, containment
  • Performance targets each system has to meet, and why
  • Interfaces with process safety, emergency response and the operator’s own procedures
  • The design basis handed to the design teams

Deliverables

  • Fire safety concept for the facility
  • Fire and explosion hazard identification register
  • Design basis and performance requirements
  • Protection philosophy documents per unit or area

Where a client already has a concept, we review it against the process rather than against a checklist. That review is usually shorter and more useful than a rewrite.