Anita Puri

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Cell for Industrial Safety and Risk analysis (CISRA), a wing of CSIR came into existence in the year 1985 at the Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai as an advisory body on industrial safety. In 1987 it was transformed into a professional cell with the following objectives: Development of infrastructural facilities and engineering expertise in hazard and risk analysis Creation of information and data base on chemical hazards Training and education on chemical hazards and risks Technical consultancy on hazard/consequence/ risk analysis Research and development in process hazards and cascade or domino effects CISRA enjoys the distinction of working on safety studies for a wide spectrum of chemical and process industries. CISRA group had developed high level expertise in consequence Analysis, Hazard and Operability studies (HAZOP), Fault Tree / Even Tree Analysis, Risk Assessment and equipment and instrument reliability. CISRA so far carried out about 150 consultancy assignments. The projects include major gas processing complexes, petrochemical complexes, refineries, chloralkali plants, pesticide and drug industries, detergent manufacturing unit, cluster of chemical industries, metal powder units, LPG storage and handling with bottling facilities, port installations, transfer operations etc.