Environmental and Safety Consultancy for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants

Where the obligation comes from

For chemical and petrochemical plants the binding constraint is usually not the pollution board - it is the MSIHC Rules. Once a site stores a listed hazardous chemical above its threshold it becomes a Major Accident Hazard installation, and a defined set of studies, plans and notifications follows.

Many sites cross that threshold without noticing, because it is triggered by inventory, and inventory changes with procurement decisions that nobody routes past EHS.

The process safety studies, in order

Environmental obligations alongside

• Fugitive emissions from flanges, pumps and seals - the largest uncounted source on most chemical sites
• Process vents, scrubbers and periodic stack monitoring
• Effluent that is frequently high-TDS and poorly biodegradable, pushing sites towards ZLD
• Hazardous waste under authorisation, including spent catalyst and distillation residue
• Form V and the rest of the statutory filing calendar

Why both disciplines in one firm matters here

A chemical site's environmental case and its safety case rest on the same inventory, the same process conditions and the same release scenarios. When an EIA consultant and a process safety consultant work separately, the two documents routinely contradict each other on exactly those numbers - and that contradiction is what an appraisal committee or an inspector notices. We prepare both from one set of assumptions.