Facility Level responsibilities

Process Safety Specialists—those at the corporate and facility levels responsible for the process safety system including tailoring the system to specific facilities and using metrics to monitor and maintain or improve process safety performance. 

Association-level reports. In many countries, it is a Responsible Care requirement that participating facilities provide key performance data to the national association, which publishes an annual Responsible Care report. These data are usually presented at the association level, and are not made publicly available at the facility level.38... 

Each site organization has a chemical coordinator, who is a trained, facility-level person, responsible for day-to-day chemical safety and OSHA HazCom compliance issues. The chemical coordinators are matrixed to the CCMC for guidance and training. They also attend monthly meetings organized by the CCMC... 

B) Employee members of TSD facility emergency response organizations shall be trained to a level of competence in the recognition of health and safety hazards to protect themselves and other employees. This would include training in the methods used to minimize the risk from safety and health hazards in the safe use of control equipment in the selection and use of appropriate personal protective equipment in the safe operating procedures to be used at the incident scene in the techniques of coordination with other employees to minimize risks in the appropriate response to over exposure from health hazards or injury to themselves and other employees and in the recognition of subsequent symptoms which may result from over exposures. 

Emergency response plan procedures may need to be evaluated against new material hazards introduced by the toll. This is primarily a concern when the toller is handling a feedstock or product that introduces hazards that may not have been present previously at that facility. Most emergency response plan procedures are written at a high enough level of detail that they will be unaffected, but it is necessaiy to evaluate the plan s adequacy. 

The audit includes a review of the process safety information, inspection of the physical facilities, and interviews with all levels of plant personnel. Using the procedures and checklist, the team systematically analyzes compliance with the PSM Rule and any other relevant corporate policies. The training program is reviewed for adequacy of content, frequency and effectiveness of training. Interviews determine employee knowledge and awareness ofthe safety procedures, duties, rules, and emergency response assignments. The team identifies deficiencies in the application of safety and health policies, procedures, and work authorization practices to determine live actions. 

How many formal checkpoints does this system require For example, a system for maintaining MSDSs may require multiple reviews of each new entry, or be consolidated as a single person s responsibility. Results may be forwarded to a centralized checkpoint, or may remain at the facility or division level. 

Definition of Responsibilities Facility personnel understand their roles and responsibilities in achieving the desired level of PSM performance. Appropriate checks and balances have been establish to minimize confiicts of interest. Internai coordination and communication mechanisms exist. 

The level of briefing which an owner can give is variable, depending on his resources and his detailed knowledge of building or facilities requirements. The most important point here, however, is clarity. The brief may have to be simple, but it must be clear - it must also be clear who has the responsibility for developing it. 

Assessment of Exposure-Response Functions for Rocket-Emission Toxicants (1998) Review of a Screening Level Risk Assessment for the Naval Air Facility at Atsugi, Japan (Letter Report) (1998)... 

Threats of Concern Terrorist acts can be the most problematic to defend against since they may be more extreme or malevolent than other crimes focused on monetary gains or outcomes with less malicious intent. Plus terrorists may use military tactics not often provided for in base chemical facility design. Chemical facility security must be considered in context with local and national homeland security and law enforcement activities, as well as with emergency response capabilities. There is a practical limit to the ability of a chemical site to prevent or mitigate a terrorist act. Above a certain level of threat, the facility needs to rely on law enforcement and military services to provide physical security against extreme acts of intentional harm. The security posture must be risk-based, and so extremely robust security measures are not always applicable or necessary. 

In this case study we have not adopted any particular component architecture such as Cat One (see Section 10.8.1, Cat One An Example Component Architecture). So our connectors have been limited to standard requests or responses between large-grained components rather than higher-level facilities such as events, properties, and workflow transfers. 

There should be specific responsibility assigned for the maintenance of historical records. Issues of importance, which should be addressed by the management system, include specifying who will keep the records, where and how they will be maintained, and how they can be retrieved and used at both the facility and company-wide levels. In addition, there should be adequate consideration for backing up critical records and protecting the records against loss. 

Monitoring threat information should be a regular part of a security program manager s job, and utility-, facility-, and region-specific threat levels and information should be shared with those responsible for security. As part of security planning, chemical facilities should develop systems to access threat information and procedures that will be followed in the event of increased industry or facility threat levels, and should be prepared to put these procedures in place immediately, so that adjustments are seamless. Involving local law enforcement and FBI is critical. 

Since SYSCO does not itself manufacture, a quality assurance team of more than 180 professionals determines specifications for each own-brand item and also sets criteria for raw materials and for the standards that manufacturers and processors must follow for food safety, quality, and consistency, as well as for social responsibility and supplier codes of conduct. This quality assurance team identifies and establishes supply sources and audits those suppliers to enforce SYSCO s strict standards for various factors like facility conditions and sanitary measures. Inspectors are at the plants as bacon comes off the production line, or follow produce from field to cooler to assure proper holding temperatures and product integrity. SYSCO s program is unmatched in the food industry. The number of people and level of resources committed to supporting the integrity of the products are far superior to those of other industry competitors, who may devote merely a handful of personnel to these tasks, if they are undertaken at all. 

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