Establish Success and Failure Criteria

Improvements in safety and environmental performance will come only slowly. Major accidents are rare, even with poorly managed programs, and any reduction in these will be evident only after several years. Areas where early improvements might be expected are spill response and occupational injuries where improved processes should be effective soon after installation. Work place exposure and environmental emissions may improve over a period of several months. 

The team should be realistic about the time required to see improvements in end-of-pipe measures in most cases the pilot project success will be measured on efficiency improvements and other in-process measures alone. In this case it is important to demonstrate that all PSM and ESH issues are being managed. You should consider having a management systems audit (validation) conducted by a group independent of the integration project team. This may be done in conjunction with the next scheduled audit. This may be a corporate or divisional audit function or a consultant engaged specifically for this task. 

If there are no existing measures of PSM and ESH, do not panic Use the results of an independent audit of the management systems conducted before and after the pilot study or use the results of existing audits. 

The results of the pilot study will be most credible if success criteria are established ahead of time. This avoids the temptation to adjust criteria to demonstrate success. Success criteria should be related to the benefits of integration previously identified. Ideally they should be able to provide an indication of the economic benefit achieved. For example, reduction in 

Key measurements relate to the improved use of resources, that is the cost of managing PSM and ESH and maximizing the benefit of all ESH activities. Indicators of this are  

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