Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety

The authors of the Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety (KBPS) (CCPS, 2007a) described the need for constant vigilance as the price of maintaining an effective process safety management system. An operator not only must be vigilant (aware of both past and current performance), but must not assume that current performance will be maintained, much less improved, without intentional evaluation of critical parts of systems and their performance. Performance measurement and metrics are a critical part of the RBPS system. 

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This is the basic philosophy detailed in the CCPS Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety (CCPS, 2007a). Focus more priority on improving the elements that apply to the process areas with the highest potential process safety risk. Logically, more metrics (in addition to a base set of key metrics applied to all sites) will likely be used to track performance for those operations with the highest potential process safety risk. 

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CCPS Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety presents a range of metrics for each of the KBPS elements. Each element includes examples for Maintaining a Dependable Practice as well as element-specific suggestions. These metrics are presented as examples, not recommendations or expectations. Practitioners may select from this list or use the list as a point of departure for developing metrics more applicable to their situation. This is a summary listing only for the complete list, see the companion CD. 

CCPS released Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety in 2007. This book expanded the original 12 elements of process safety into 20 elements and included a slightly more in-depth discussion of organizational change. The additional elements were developed from experience gained over the 15 years of formal process safety implementation since their original publication in 1989. 

A cornerstone of a good OCM program is a well-established process safety competency element. This requirement was addressed briefly in the CCPS Guidelines for Technical Management of Chemical Process Safety under the element Enhancement of Process Safety Knowledge and was added as a new separate element Process Safety Competency in the CCPS Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety. 

The comprehensive book Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) [9] sponsored by the CCPS describes twelve features essential to implementing and nmturing safety culture fundamentals in an organization s PSM system. 

Provide Continuous Monitoring of Performance is the final safety culture feature in the comprehensive CCPS book Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety (KBPS) [9], The focus is leading and lagging indicators of a process safety culture (see Fig. 16.7). 

Guidelines for risk based process safety, AIChE s CCPS. Hoboken, New Jersey John Wiley Sons, Inc 2007. 

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) of the American Institution of Chemical Engineers (AlChE) guidance Guidelines for risk based process safety identifies good practice on process safety management. It is structured as follows ... 

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