Corrective action tracking process

An overview of a problem event reporting/corrective action tracking process. 

Eor the safe operation of hazardous plant, the senior site management team plays an important role in setting the correct tone, ensuring that correct responses are given to emerging issues, and maintain a healthy safety culture. A healthy corrective action tracking process is often a good indicator of these aspects. 

Corrective action tracking provides management with the status of audit issues and agreed-upon corrective actions. It also provides an opportunity, in some cases, to review corrective action at a later date subsequent to completion (e.g., a year later). CCPS (1989) provides more detail on the corrective action process. 

Incident/accident reporting system Is the process in which incidents or notifiable occurrences are reported and corrective action tracked to closure. 

Corrective Action Verification Process, Tracking, and Record Keeping... 

To control the corrective action process, many companies make use of a tracking system. To assist in the tracking of corrective actions, a variety of reporting mechanisms can be used, such as ... 

Setting of KPIs helps the operators to be proactive in taking corrective action to avert problems. Good indicators also help track the impact of business decisions on process safety/integrity related risks. A common set of indicators should be used within the organization in order to allow comparison across various assets at different locations. 

By evaluating the completeness at two different moments, the mnnber of active sensors in the system is observed to decrease from 100 (one-himdred) to 90 (ninety) in less than one month of monitoring, which is an evidence of a reduction in the number of tracking and detection points in the system. By ascertaining the position of the defective sensors, it is possible to verify if these elements require correcting, or not. In this practical case it is not possible to evaluate the impact of the failure of these 10 (ten) sensors. However, to support this study, it is assmned that if more than 5% of the sensors were defective, then the reliabihty of the system would be compromised, resulting in the need of corrective action. The evaluation stage is of fundamental importance for this proposed process, since it... 

Periodic, scheduled facility safety inspections are essential in any operational area, especially where hazardous tasks are performed on a regular basis. Compliance with safety inspection requirements should not be difficult to accomplish since similar requirements should already exist in an established occupational safety program. The facility inspection encompasses all facets of daily operation and considers the human-machine interface a primary candidate area for potential mishaps. Frequent facility inspections are an excellent method of maintaining current awareness of facility conditions and how those conditions affect, or might affect, the safe operation of that facility. A system should be in place to ensure implementation of corrective actions and to track repetitive items. Results of inspections should be properly documented and accountability for discrepant items appropriately determined and assigned in order for the inspection process to be effective. If properly performed, the facility safety inspection is an excellent tool in the overall success of the system safety function. 

Once operational gaps are identified, assessment methods (Chapters 5-8 for energy operation. Chapters 12 and 13 for process operation, and Chapter 16 for utility system operation) are then applied to identify root causes— potential causes include inefficient process operation, insufficient maintenance, inadequate operating practices, procedures, and control, inefficient energy system design, and outdated technology. Assessment results are translated into specific corrective actions to achieve targets via either manual adjustments, the best practices, or by automatic control systems. Finally, the results are tracked to measure the improvements and benefits achieved. 

Corrective action Appropriate inventory segmentation (sufficient visibility) Sufficient Efficient production production capacities capacity utilization Effective, accurate inventory management Effective distribution planning Effective utilization of specific transport modes Efficient distribution processes Eunctioning tracking and tracing No capacity-related problems with service providers... 

Define your safety change process that converts the data into corrective action changes. Then, track those changes and re-measure after they are stable. 

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