Commitment to Process Safety

The Cornerstone of process safety excellence. A workforce that is actively involved and an organization that fully supports process safety as a core value will tend to do the right things in the right ways at the right times-even when no one else is looking.

Process Safety Management in the Energy Sector

Mar 22, 2010
Marc McBride
This paper describes experience of application of the principles of process safety management within Centrica plc, an integrated energy company with operations in North America and Europe. The paper describes the key challenges for implementation of process safety requirements in this sector, the...

Journey towards PSM Excellence

Mar 22, 2010
Ravi Ramaswamy
This paper describes the experience, learning and major challenges in implementing Process Safety Management at Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) India. The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and...

How to Evaluate Process Safety Culture

Mar 22, 2010
Jerry Forest
At first glance it may seem that organizational culture is subjective and therefore difficult to measure. Indeed, even the definition of culture falls into the soft side of process safety. This paper will show that an objective approach can be taken to survey and define process safety culture. With...

LNG Safety - II

Apr 29, 2009
Morshed Rana, Ruifeng Qi, Sanjeev Saraf
This session presents advancements in LNG safety in LNG baseload and receiving terminals, LNG ships and other related areas. LNG Vapor Dispersion Consequence Modeling with CFD Codes ·<span style="&'font:" 7pt="" 'times="" new="" roman';&'=""> Have You Considered High-Pressure LNG...

Managing Organizational Change

Apr 29, 2009
George Melham, John Wincek, Paul Davidson
Management of Change has long been recognized as a fundamental cornerstone of a process safety program. Through the years, most companies have evolved a mature system to manage technical changes -- equipment, materials, and technology -- in their facilities. In recent years, the effects of, and...

Fire, Explosion, & Quantitative Analysis

Apr 28, 2009
Pablo Zunana
Fires and explosions result in the largest losses in process safety accidents. The increased sensitivity by industry, regulatory, and public sectors to recent events as well as challenging market conditions has caused industry to scrutinize their existing approaches and develop balance between...

Process Safety Metrics and Culture

Apr 28, 2009
Charles Soczek, Corey Shelton, Mike Broadribb
This session features presentations focusing on using the new CCPS Process Safety Metrics and other metrics to drive continual improvement in a company’s process safety culture and in overall incident reduction performance. Emphasis is placed on papers that describe actual experience with...

Safety Culture and Operational Discipline

Apr 27, 2009
Mark Paradies, Stephanie Payne, Tulanda Brown
This session focuses on the cultural aspects of a successful Process Safety program. Papers that are presented cover new and innovative ideas on corporate-wide and site-specific safety culture improvements, developing or improving operational discipline, and other approaches addressing the “human...

Implementing PSM Globally

Apr 27, 2009
Christie Arseneau, David Cummings
In the last several years there have been numerous changes in technical and analytical methods, process safety management systems, regulations, globalization and consolidation, new and increased accountability to public and regulatory entities, and changing market conditions. Papers in this session...

Auditing Process Safety

Apr 27, 2009
Adrian Sepeda, Mark S. Dreux, Michael Green
The 2nd Edition of the CCPS Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems is currently being prepared. This session will include papers that address management systems for ensuring effective audit processes. Topics in this session may also include developing internal audit program;...

Guidelines for Performing Effective Pre-Startup Safety Reviews

March, 2007
This book provides guidance to those with responsibility for scheduling and executing a Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR). It outlines a protocol and tool for use by project or turnaround teams, to effectively and efficiently schedule and execute a PSSR. Integrates PSSR throughout the project/...

Safe Design and Operation of Process Vents and Emission Control Systems

March, 2006
Process vent header collection systems are subject to continually varying compositions and flow rates and thus present significant challenges for safe design. Due to increasingly demanding safety, health, environmental, and property protection requirements, today's industrial designers are faced...

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