Culture:General issues applying to Process Safety.

:
The degree to which the workforce feels empowered as to Process Safety and
ownership of Process Safety;

The extent to which the workforce feels free to report safety related
incidents, near misses, and concerns without fear of retaliation;
o What is the near miss reporting system?
The Process Safety awareness, knowledge and competency of the
workforce;
o Is there a formal competency requirement for operators with a
requirement for periodic revalidation?
Relationships and trust between different constituencies, including
management and the workforce, management and contractors and
contractors and the workforce
Whether deviations from policies are tolerated
The extent to which safety related information flows freely among all levels
of the facility.
o To what extent are operations people involved in the actual formal
study of risk
Whether the workforce has a shared belief that safety comes first,
regardless of financial, scheduling or cost objectives
The extent to which the workforce is vigilant about process safety risks,
continuously tries to reduce them and seeks to learn from incidents and
near misses.
o Does the workforce understand the process risks and the role they
have in managing them or what can go wrong if they make a
mistake?

Identifiable Safety Values

Supervisory involvement
Procedures and equipment
Worker professionalism/empowerment
Permit to work
Management of Change
Safe Operating Procedures
Corporate
requirements for
Process Safety

Technical standards for

equipment design and
maintenance
Process Safety Management
System
Corporate risk criteria
(severity/frequency)

Process Safety
Management
System

Process Safety
Training

Process Safety
Incident or issue
reporting: Generally
there are legal
requirements for
reporting hazardous
events and injuries.
These do not always
include releases or
events where there
were no reportable
injuries or
environmental
insults.
Self Assessment
and Audit process

Process Hazard Analysis

A process for establishing
Worst Case and Most
Credible scenarios and their
severity
Assessment of likelihood or
frequencies for Worst Case
and Most Credible scenarios
Reactive Chemicals
Fire
Explosion
Toxic release
Static Electricity
Electrical Hazard Zones
Loss of Primary Containment
Electrical Area Classification
Process Safety Reporting system:
Lagging indicators
Leading Indicators
Incident follow up and closure

Self Assessment of facility practices

versus Process Safety
Requirements

Training which is
graduated to be
able to address
needs at each
operational level in
the company. Is
there a means of
determining
competence?
CCPS or API
reporting systems
designed to meet
requirements of
Responsible Care