Thomas Hoffmeyer

Specialist in risk assessment and functional safety for power plants and related technologies. Comprehensive experience in process safety from early design phases to implementation/commissioning and finally operation and maintenance. I have facilitated more than 40 HAZOP/HAZID workshops within multifuel power plants, waste to energy plants, district heating, biomass storage and handling systems. The risks assessment has been carried out for end user, EPC and equipment suppliers. I am an all-round specialist within control systems for power plants, including in particular control systems for boilers and operating systems for burners and is experienced within the fields of design, planning and commissioning of failsafe systems for power plants, heat accumulators and district heating systems. I have extensive process knowledge within process plants like boilers, burners, fuel mills, large biomass fuel storages and handling systems, district heating including heat accumulators and pump stations. My key competencies are: • Functional safety and functional safety management • Functional safety assessment • Hazard and risk assessment (HAZOP, HAZID) • Risk acceptance criteria (RAC) • Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) • Safety integrity level (SIL), assessment and verification • IEC/EN 61508 & IEC/EN 61511 • Life cycle approach • Pressure Equipment Directive (PED)