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BUILDING PROCESS SAFETY CULTURE: Tools to Enhance Process Safety Performance

On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crewmembers aboard. After extensive investigation, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) concluded that the organizational safety culture gaps contributed significantly to this loss.

Upon review of the The CAIB report, the CCPS Technical Steering Committee concluded that the same cultural factors that impacted NASA could also impact on the chemical and petroleumn industries. CCPS invites chemical, petroleum, and other companies to use these materials to evaluate their company's process safety culture and to develop improvement strategies.

Table of Contents

Front Matter: Foreword, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Copyright Statement, Table of Contents

I.  The Primary Tools:

A) PowerPoint® presentation: Lessons From the Columbia Disaster - Safety and Organizational Culture

B) Self-evaluation tool: Key Lessons From The Columbia Shuttle Disaster (With Adaptation To The Process Industries)

II.  Instructions for Using the Package

C) Instructions for PowerPoint® Presentation

D) Conducting An Organizational Culture Workshop

III.  Background Materials

E)   White Paper: Safety Culture:  “What Is At Stake"

F)   Incident Summary: Columbia Case History

G)  Incident Summary: Challenger Case History

H)  Incident Summary: Piper Alpha Case History

I)   Incident Summary: Flixborough Case History

J)   Videos (Coming Soon)

K) Bibliography

The use of this product in whole or in part for commercial use is prohibited without prior express written consent of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. To obtain appropriate license and permission for such use contact  CCPS.