Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety provides guidelines for industries that manufacture, consume, or handle chemicals, by focusing on new ways to design, correct, or improve process safety management practices.
Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety:
- safety builds upon the original process safety management ideas published in the early 1990s
- integrates industry lessons learned over the intervening years
- utilizes applicable "total quality" principles (i.e., plan, do, check, act)
- organizes it in a way that will be useful to all organizations throughout the life-cycle of a company
Contents
1. Overview of Risk Based Process Safety
- Risk Based Process Safety System Design Strategies
- Risk Based Process Safety Design and Improvement Criteria
- Using Element Chapters to Design and Improve a Process Safety Management System
Commit to Process Safety
2. Process Safety Culture
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
3. Compliance With Standards
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
4. Process Safety Competency
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
5. Workforce Involvement
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
6. Stakeholder Outreach
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
Understand Hazards and Risk
7. Process Knowledge Management
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
8. Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
Operating Procedures
9. Operating Procedures
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
10. Safe Work Practices
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
11. Asset Integrity Reliability
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
12. Contractor Management
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
13. Training and Performance Assurance
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
14. Management of Change
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
15. Operational Readiness
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
16. Conduct of Operations
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
17. Emergency Management
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
Learn from Experience
18. Incident Investigation
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
19. Measurement and Metrics
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
20. Auditing
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
21. Management Review and Continuous Improvement
- Element Overview
- Key Principles and Essential Features
- Possible Work Activities
- Examples of Ways to Improve Effectiveness
- Element Metrics
- Management Review
22. Implementation
- Reasons to Implement a Risk-based Process Safety Management System
- First Steps Toward Implementation
- Start with RBPS Elements that Provide the Greatest Risk Benefit to Your Facility
- Implementation Examples
- Other Applications
- Conclusions
Index