OTECSA have been working with PureMalt Products in Haddington since 2019 when we carried out our first HAZOP studies for the site.  As part of major site upgrade projects since then we have been engaged to carry out:

• HAZOP and LOPA studies

• A full site HAZID study

• Consequence analysis studies

• DSEAR Awareness Training

• Site HSE Auditing and Incident Investigations

• Control system support

In 2022 we started working with Brown Forman, who own the BenRiach Distillery, Glenglassaugh Distillery and GlenDronach Distillery as well as a bottling facility at Newbridge, Edinburgh where the world famous Jack Daniels brand is bottled for the UK market.

Our scope of supply to the Brown Forman sites has included:

• DSEAR Risk Assessment updates for all sites.

• P&ID development and improvement as part of site projects.

• HAZOP and LOPA updates as part of site projects.

We have facilitated various process safety assessments including leading HazOp and LOPA studies for the Inchdairnie Distillery site in Glenrothes Fife on their beautiful distillery which started up in 2015.   We have been recently further engaged to carry out DSEAR Risk Assessments, Occupied Buildings Risk Assessments (OBRA) and Hazardous Area Classification Studies for the site.

The Inchdairnie site includes a malt whisky distillation system from malted barley to cask, cask operations, blending operations and cask maturation warehouses.

As part of the design and installation of the stunning new build Tullamore grain distillery, we were responsible for facilitating a HazOp and LOPA programme spanning around six weeks of assessments.  The studies covered the full grain distillation system and built on our experience of other grain systems at the William Grant's Girvan site.

More recently we have been engaged to provide HAZOP reviews and COMAH/ Seveso awareness training for the site operational and leadership teams.

We have been responsible for carrying out various projects at The Royal Mint facility in Cardiff, assisting them with DSEAR compliance .  This has included co-ordination of site wide hazardous area classification activities and carrying out DSEAR risk assessments.  We have also provided project assurance studies such as HAZID and HAZOP for major projects on site.

Having carried out many project HazOp and LOPA studies in recent times for the Girvan site, we were also engaged to carry out a full site DSEAR Risk Assessment update including Hazardous Area Classification to the latest industry standards.  This involved many different types of processes and storage situations, covering combustible solids and dusts from the malt and grain handling processes and flammable liquids and gases from the distilled spirit operations and distilleries on site.

Angus Dundee Distillers are a distillery company based in Scotland, with several malt distilling operations and a central operation in Coatbridge.  OTECSA have provided compliance support to Angus Dundee in the form of hazard studies and LOPA on some of their malt distillery operations.

We have been supporting the Whyte & MacKay site in Invergordon with studies such as HAZOP, LOPA and hazardous area classification as part of major site upgrade projects.  Our work has recently expanded with W&M to provide further compliance support in relation go CoMAH regulations and process safety management.

Grissan are a large biogas and biomethane manufacturer, turning distillery and other by products into renewable energy.  The Grissan portfolio includes biogas sites across Scotland, aligned with some of the biggest names in distilling.  Our work with Grissan has included compliance support in areas such as HAZID studies and ALARP demonstrations.

We have assisted Bio Capital Ltd. who are owners of several biogas facilities in Scotland with updates to their DSEAR and HAC updates for their sites at:

• Barkip, Ayrshire

• Earnside Energy, Perth

• Energen Biogas, Cumbernauld

Following studies on other AD (anaerobic digestion) plants such as Viridor, Glasgow, we expanded our expertise with the Bio Capital sites, and have gone on to carry out further DSEAR assessements for other biogas production sites in Scotland.

We were delighted to get the call to help some friends in the craft spirits industry with various risk assessments of their completely unique craft American Whiskey production facility in Brooklyn, New York.

As part of our role we assisted the distillers with documenting and managing their operating risks for their vacuum distillation process.  As a one of a kind distillery, our approach needed to consider the differing hazards of operating at vacuum conditions, and handling the delicate whiskey without significant heat input.

We first worked with Brewdog Distilling in 2020, as part of their distillery expansion plans.  Our first work with Brewdog was to carry out HAZID, HAZOP and DSEAR Risk Assessment for new distillation equipment being installed in the distillery.

Following this as part of a larger design project being undertaken with IDEA (www.idea-ltd.co.uk), we carried out process design and risk assessment activities including HAZOP and LOPA, and DSEAR and HAC updates for their distillery move project.

We have subsequently been engaged on site to carry out site wide risk assessments as the Brewdog site (brewing and distilling) in Ellon continues to grow and develop.

OTECSA have worked with Atlantic Biogas across all three of their Scottish sites, providing support on DSEAR compliance, and general process safety advice.

The three sites include operations in Ellon, Stracathro and Inchdairnie, with biogas anaerobic digestion plants.

Our work with Atlantic follows various other project successes on anaerobic digestion facilities in Scotland in the past few years.