Process Safety Compliance Does Not Mean You Are Safe?
Abstract
Providing your facility with effective barriers to process hazards and risk involves more that just compliance with current process safety standards. Understanding specific process hazards and risk will provide a clear assessment that provides the site with the identification of appropriate layers of protection. There are many tools that have been effectively used over the years to protect people, environment and property from process failures. Compliance regulations and standards have addresses some, but not all, of these tools. This presentation will illustrate the use of hazard/risk assessment and best practices to reduce the risk to an acceptable level. The major topics are as follows • Risk Assessment – Provide a force ranking of hazards/risk to establish priority. • Leadership – Resources to provide leadership of process safety by the site to corporate management teams. • Analysis – Descriptions of elements that can be used to analysis the process safety program vital signs and needs. • Communication – Methods to be used to ensure the process safety program is know and understood. • Competence – Elements that focus on keeping the workforce competent • Control – Methods to manage and control critical elements that keep the program day-to- day activities efficient.
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PresentationSubject
process safety complianceCollections
Citation
Drake, Tom (2015). Process Safety Compliance Does Not Mean You Are Safe?. Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /193692.