Premier Consulting Services

A professional consulting group focused on the high-knowledge base specialized field of "Safety and Reliability" consulting services for the chemical, refining, utility, pulp & paper, manufacturing and nuclear industries.

Established initially in Baton Rouge - Louisiana in 1991, our consulting staff is selected from senior field-experienced engineers in safety and critical control.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, USA, Premier Consulting Services (PCS) is built on 405 years of combined on the job experience in process safety from over 20 experts, accumulating over 1 million hours in this field.

PCS has received world-wide recognition as the leading safety consulting group by industry leaders, safety regulatory authorities, environmental regulatory authorities and risk insurers.

PCS services and projects span geographically from USA, to Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Taiwan, Qatar, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, U.K., Brazil, Germany, Russia, Japan, Korea and several other countries around the Globe. PCS will be on the moon with the first process or nuclear plant.

At Premier Consulting Services, loss prevention and risk management is the number one priority. Process up time and on-line reliability is a close number two. Effective safety instrumented systems design must balance the requirement that the process fail-safe when hazardous conditions exist, with the need for maintaining operability and lifecycle costs, while adhering to applicable safety and environmental standards.

PCS scope of services cover an ample range:

• Critical safety site assessments.
• National and international regulatory compliance verification.
• PHA / safety instrumented function (SIF) review
• Safety integrity level (SIL) assignment
• Safety requirements specification (SRS) development
• SIS device selection / proven-in-use / minimum hardware fault tolerance.
• Safety instrumented system (SIS) conceptual design.
• QRA and Safety integrity level (SIL) verification.
• Functional safety assessment
• Safety audits
• Corporate engineering guidelines development.
• SIS process maintenance procedures
• SIS testing and bypassing procedures development
• Management of change (MOC) procedures development
• Process safety management (PSM) program development
• Risk management program (RMP) development
• Competence assessment / certification programs
• Safety and reliability seminars
• Safety and reliability training classes.
• SIS incident and root cause analysis / legal consultation