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Key Principles of Process Safety for Incident Investigation

Table of Contents

Key Principle #1: Know when an event is a process safety incident or a near miss.................................................... 3
Key Principle #2: Develop and implement a written procedure to investigate process safety incidents and near misses 6
Key Principle #3: The Investigation Team should consist of an appropriate number of trained and competent members
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Key Principle #4: Follow-up on process safety incident investigations by developing and resolving recommendations
into final actions, and implementing the actions in a timely manner ............................................ 10
Key Principle #5: Learn from Process Safety and Near Miss Incidents .................................................................... 14
References and Supplemental Readings .................................................................................................................... 16

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