Categorisation of Recommendations

Our objectives made it clear that we expected the decision making on recommendations to be influenced by whether the consequence identified was a safety issue or not. In many situations identifying environmental consequences can also be of importance in decision making. Our procedure therefore has to ensure that the correct categorisation is applied to each recommendation, and passed on to management. We also require our HAZOP Leader to carry out 'off-line' checks for this while checking the recommendations against their objectives.