Chemical Safety Board Recommendations and CCPS

AIChE and its Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) have been working actively for more than 20 years to help industry continually improve process safety performance. We support the work of the Chemical Safety Board to gather learning from process accidents and communicate these to industry.  The following are links associated with this activity.

Scott Berger testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee:

Berger Senate Testimony

With the recent release of the CSB recommendations stemming from the BP Texas City incident, our work is more relevant than ever.  

The CSB made recommendations to CCPS which are being addressed as follows:

• Guidelines for Management of Change for Process Safety (April 2007)
• CCPS is beginning a project to address the issue of how to integrate process safety during mergers & acquisitions. 

CCPS understands that companies will soon be working to internalize and act on the learnings from this incident. Here are some resources that can help:

• Guidelines for Risk-Based Process Safety (Release date March 30, 2007)
• The CCPS Business Case for Process Safety
• BUILDING PROCESS SAFETY CULTURE: Tools to Enhance Process Safety Performance
• For information on the CSB recommendations or CCPS projects, please call Roxy Schneider at 646-495-1372.