Process Safety Metrics Reporting
CCPS is pleased to release a focused set of three lagging Process Safety metrics to help industry monitor progress and drive improvement in Process Safety Programs.
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Note: Public display of reported metrics data will become available once sufficient data has been collected to obtain statistical significance.
About CCPS Process Safety Metrics
The project to develop the metrics involved a large number of CCPS member companies and external stakeholders. CCPS worked with trade associations and other international organizations and labor to adopt the metrics as a harmonized approach to improved industry benchmarking and transparency of industry performance. In addition to a recommended industry-wide lagging metrics, CCPS suggests leading metrics and near miss reporting definitions.
CCPS specifically recommends that all companies and trade Associations collect and report the three lagging metrics: Process Safety Incidents Count (PSI), Process Safety Incident Rate (PSR), and Process Safety Severity Rate (PSSR). ABIQUIM (the trade organization of Brazil), the Canadian Chemical Producers’ Association, and the American Chemistry Council have all endorsed the use of the CCPS metrics, along with companies on 6 continents. Other organizations are using many elements of the CCPS metrics.
The recommended metrics themselves can be reviewed in the document “Process Safety Leading and Lagging Metrics – You Don’t Improve What You Don’t Measure”. This will be followed with a detailed “Guidelines for Process Safety Metrics” , containing additional information and guidance, is available to individual companies on how to better use metrics to improve their process safety performance. Guidelines for Process Safety Metics will be Published in August, 2009.
This document entitled is now complete and will be published by August 2009. This book is intended to propose industry-wide lagging metrics and suggested leading and other metrics for individual company consideration. CCPS strongly recommends that companies around the globe adopt and implement these recommendations.
While these metrics may not be perfect, CCPS recommends that they be used for 2-3 years to establish a base of experience before improvements are considered.
The Industry-wide Process Safety Metrics Reporting application [Login] [Register Now], on this web page, is intended to provide an opportunity to collect and report the three lagging metrics. The information will be tracked by metric, year, industry type, and regions.
If you have any questions, please contact the administrator, Dan Sliva at sliva@capital.net.