How to Achieve Quick Improvements in Major Accident Prevention

How to Achieve Quick Improvements in Major Accident Prevention

Many companies have adopted continuous improvement as their primary strategy toward pursuing operational excellence in Process Safety.  The CCPS has extended this strategy with its Vision 2020.  However, many companies (or countries) may not yet be ready to strive for the highest levels of process safety performance.  They may need first to take some basic steps to create a solid foundation for moving forward in process safety.

This paper discusses an approach for creating the foundation for an effective process safety management system and specific "plant-tested" practices that can get your facility/company "quick wins" on its initial road toward process safety success:

• Essential features of a fit-for-purpose" PSM system
• Practical tips for implementing PSM so that it will work every day
• Top five things to create quickest/inexpensive improvements in process safety

Essential Features of a Fit-for-Purpose PSM System

This part will highlight the essential features of a PSM system based upon hazards, complexity, resources and culture using the CCPS Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety.

Practical Tips for Implementing PSM

This section will overview key success factors to adopt and failure modes to avoid when implementing or improving a PSM system.  We will highlight aspects from CCPS's soon-to-be-published 2nd edition of Guidelines for Implementing PSM

Top Five Process Safety Improvement Actions

1. Implement a management review process
2. Create, monitor, and react to simple process safety metrics
3. Improve process safety leadership at the shift leader level
4. Make everyone an MOC sensor
5. Do simple, effective root cause analysis to learn from everything

The presentation will give case study examples of each process safety performance improvement tactic.