Project 292: Driving Continuous Process Safety Improvement from Investigated Incidents | AIChE

Project 292: Driving Continuous Process Safety Improvement from Investigated Incidents

Project ID 

292

Project Scope 

Over the years, the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has made numerous recommendations to various parties in an attempt to improve Process Safety performance and to ensure that catastrophic incidents are prevented.  This project will take a look at the best recommendations and learnings brought forward by the CSB and will provide content to help companies institutionalize these learnings within their own organizations. The CSB, through using actual incidents, often does a great job as to demonstrating why companies need to take action relative to certain hazards.  This project would then build from this starting point to outline how individual companies could then apply these recommendations within their own organizations:
 
What are the warning signs and metrics that might speak to a company at being at risk of a similar catastrophic event? What changes does a company need to make – where can they find best practices related to the situation, are there applicable regulations? How do they assess the risk and create the case for change, are there long-term engineering solutions, are there short-term administrative controls to consider? How can they evaluate the success of the changes they have made? Are there tools that should prevent these hazards from re-entering their organizations?
 
In addition to addressing a handful of key CSB recommendations, this publication through these examples, will also start to map out processes and approaches that would serve as models to be applied when looking at recommendations and learnings outside of the scope of this publication.  i.e. how do you take an outside learning and drive change within an organization.
 

Accepting Volunteers 

No

Project Status 

Project Complete

Status Updated On 

July 31, 2020