Use a Comprehensive Database to Better Manage Process Safety (article appeared in August 2001 issue of CEP) CCPS Process Safety Incident Database by Brian Kelly & Rick Vaughan, Exxon Research and Engineering Lessons Learned from Process Incident Databases and The Process Safety Incident Database (PSID) Approach by Adrian L. Sepeda, PE, presented at the 2004 Mary Kay O’Conner Process Safety Symposium and published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials
The anonymity of submitted incident data is carefully protected. The database does not include the name and address of the submitting organization unless that submitting company makes special arrangements to do so. When an incident is drafted by a member company and submitted to the Database Administrator for approval, it is assigned a number as an identifier. To protect the confidentiality of data submitted by participants, a number of special measures are in place as follows: The selection of specific process safety incidents for submission of data is strictly voluntary. Companies have the...
PSID Tutorial: Landing Page, Home Page, and Search Functionality The above training video was recorded on November 9, 2021 and it discusses the upgraded PSID. The required fields in the legacy CCPS database are: brief description of incident (text) full description of incident (text) lessons learned (text) changes made (text) country chemicals involved dollar loss type of operation/unit operation phase of operation initiating event type of incident equipment involved inquires, fatalities, off-site consequences (yes/no) The optional fields for the legacy database are: political subdivision (...
The PSID database provides an industry history with obvious process safety benefits. It supplements a company's internal incident databases, improves hazard assessments, and facilitates due diligence activities. In addition, analysis of the database will benefit the following user groups: Executives: Allows them to focus attention on the types of incidents common to their chemical process and refinery businesses and the need to commit resources to prevent occurrence. Managers: Can determine types of facilities and unit operations which are experiencing losses and may require special...
Who Can Participate? Any non-governmental and non-regulatory CCPS member company is eligible to join. Please contact ccps_psid@aiche.org for more information. Each company's TSC Representative can nominate a PSID Company Administrator, who can then contact CCPS to nominate new General Users. Incident Anonymity: All incidents entered into PSID are vetted by the company's PSID administrator, without the PSID administrator's approval the incident will not be included in the database. Submitted incidents are anonyomized upon entering the system, there are no records of the submitter's company,...
The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) developed the Process Safety Incident Database to collect, track and share important process safety incidents and experiences among project participants. The purpose of the CCPS Process Safety Incident Database (PSID) is to pool process safety incident experience among CCPS participating companies, for lessons learned from the experiences of others without suffering the consequences of failures. PSID is a fully searchable incident database that is accessible on the web and includes more than 710 member-submitted incidents. PSID is very versatile...