Fire protection systems are vital in hazardous areas. TfA Project Group has extensive experience in hazardous area design; we know what is needed to protect your assets. With our in-house Fire Engineering specialist, we can provide reliable and effective solutions that will ensure the safety of your facility and your personnel.
We are well versed in the latest standards, codes of practice and incident investigation findings so your facility’s fire protection system design will be compliant and incorporate the most recent learnings in this constantly evolving design field. Many of us have experience in operational roles for major oil companies where fire awareness and fighting accreditation is mandatory, invaluable experience that will benefit your facility.
HAZARDOUS AREAS
TfA are certified Hazardous Area Designers with decades of experience designing, commissioning and operating hazardous area facilitiies across the nation. TfA’s expertise minimises your projects compliance risk, providing you with security against signicant schedule delays from unanticipated design and installation audit requirements and costly variations from designs performed by inexperienced non-experts. We can also assist you with AS1940 compliance audits.
TfA can classify hazardous areas within your existing installation or develop layouts for new facilities that minimise the hazards from explosive atmospheres, ongoing maintenance costs and risks to operators. TfA are intimately familiar with legislative and code requirements, and can ensure your installation is correctly classified, equipment appropriately specified and compliant installation performed ensuring your project is delivered on time and on budget.
HAZOP/CHAZOP
TFA has experienced facilitators capable of conducting Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOPs) and Control Hazard and Operability Studies (CHAZOPs). Risk mitigation is of paramount importance to each TFA designer, as we regularly design installations with inherent hazards which need to be minimised.
TFA brings experience from previous roles in operations and commissioning to give context to the HAZOP review process. Our expertise in hazardous areas and with dangerous goods ensures your project applies cutting edge learnings from incident investigations, minimising risk to your operational team.
Our 3D design platform and familiarity with HSSE code requirements and guidelines ensures the design and review processes capture all relevant operational concerns.
