Leading with Safety process

Phase I of the Leading with Safety process belongs exclusively to leadership much (but not all) of phase II can be delegated. 

Step 5 Engage the organization in the Leading with Safety process. 

After we discuss each of the phase II steps we will present a case history that touches on some highpoints of the Leading with Safety process and makes use of the tools we have presented in this book. 

In addition, a regular and systematic review, led by the senior leadership team, is a necessary sustaining mechanism. The review process looks at the implementation of each step in the Leading with Safety process and ensures its integrity. 

Thomas R. Krause, Employee-Driven Systems for Setfe Behavior, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1995 Thomas R. Krause, The Behavior-Based Safety Process, 2nd ed.. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1997 Thomas R. Krause, Leading with Safety, Wiley-Interscience, Hoboken, NJ, 2005. 

Thomeis R. Krause, Ph.D., is chairman of the board and co-founder of Behavioral Science Technology, Inc. (BST). He is the author of several books, including Leading With Safety, The Behavior-Based Safety Process, and co-author of Taking the Lead in Patient Safety. Tom consults with senior executives on leadership, culture and behavior change in the service of safety improvement. 

The Safety Design and Implementation Team is chartered by the Medical Center to plan, develop, implement, and supervise the installation and initiation of our Leading with Safety culture improvement process under the direction and oversight of the Safety Senior Leadership Team. The results of the team s work will be reported to the Medical Center s senior leadership and to the risk management committee of the board of directors/trustees. 

There are a variety of process safety risks one needs to assess with chemical processes. In general, these risks will lead to an evaluation of the potential for the process to have precipitous changes in temperature and or pressure that lead to secondary events such as detonations, explosions, over pressurizations, fires, and so forth. The most cost-effective way of avoiding these sorts of risks is through the adoption of inherent safety principles. Inherent safety principles are very similar to and complementary to pollution prevention principles, where one attempts to use a hierarchy of approaches to avoid and/or reduce the risk of an adverse event. The reader is referred elsewhere to a more complete treatment of this important area of process design. ... 

The research described in this thesis deals with safety management in complex and high-risk organizations. Companies in the chemical process industry handling hazardous substances are chosen as the subject of study. In particular this thesis will focus on the current safety indication process, and how this safety indication process works and its shortfalls. An unreliable indication process, leads automatically to wrong reactions and measures to prevent possible accidents. Increased understanding of this process helps in providing a better basis from which effective measures to prevent accidents can be derived. 

In order to reflect these lead times, the concept of a timestamp is introduced. Timestamp is used in computer science documenting the system time when a certain event or transaction occurs e.g. for logging events (N.N. 2007). In the context of future inventory value planning, the time-stamp marks the period, when the first raw material has reached a certain stage in the value chain network included into a specific product. In the example illustrated in fig. 57, the raw material is processed in the same period to be converted into product 1. Therefore, all four value chain steps indexed from one to four occur in the same period and have the same time-stamp one. Conversion into product 2, however, requires additional time caused by production lead times, safety inventory and/or transportation time, that the steps indexed with five and six have a time stamp of two. The timestamp reflects that the inventory value of product 2 is not based on the raw material costs from the same period but based on the raw material costs from the previous period in order to reflect the lead time. Consequently, value chain indices and timestamps are defined for all steps and can cover multiple periods reflecting that raw materials in a global complex multi-stage value chain network can take several months, until they are sold as part of a finished product to the market. 

A prisoner can be compelled to take psychiatric medication in only two circumstances. First if he suffers from a serious mental illness that renders him mentally incompetent to make his own medical decisions, prison medical authorities are permitted to forcibly treat the prisoner, so long as the treatment is in the best interests of the prisoner and complies with due process. Second, a prisoner whose mental illness leads him or her to engage in dangerous behavior that threatens to harm other prisoners or prison staff, may be forcibly treated with psychotropic medication.This ruling is based on the unique safety and security issues within prisons. 

Safety and loss performance in the chemical industry is the result of the interaction of plant design, construction and maintenance with production processes, and trained people applying a well-developed operating discipline. An accident leading to personal injury, property damage, or product loss invariably is the result of the failure of one or more of these elements. Each factor involved in chemical production—equipment, process, product, and people—may be subject to a variety of failure modes which may lead to accidents. 

Risks linked with chemical processes are diverse. As already discussed, product risks include toxicity, flammability, explosion, corrosion, etc. but also include additional risks due to chemical reactivity. A process often uses conditions (temperature, pressure) that by themselves may present a risk and may lead to deviations that can generate critical effects. The plant equipment, including its control equipment, may also fail. Finally, since fine chemical processes are work-intensive, they may be subject to human error. All of these elements, that is, chemistry, energy, equipment, and operators and their interactions, constitute what we call process safety. 

F. Henselwood, Use of Pareto Shape Parameter as a Leading Indicator of Process Safety Performance, Process Safety Progress, February 26. 2009 (reprinted with permission of John Wiley Sons, Inc.)... 

In order to gain experience in the process outlined in HSG 254 it was agreed that a Hull site plant would be used in the pilot. A review session was planned with operational and technical representatives from the plant together with the local Health Safety Executive Regulatory Inspectors and the author of HSG 254 who lead the review process. 

The other method of analysis of repository safety is concerned with degradation processes that can occur and persist over long time periods. One of the most familiar examples of such degradation is corrosion. On a geologic time scale, an ice age might produce events and processes that lead to long-term degradation. 

The driving force for the development of chemiluminescence-based assays (as well as any other optical or electrical detection methodology) is the replacement of radiolabels both for safety reasons and because of their intrinsic instability. Because the earliest high sensitivity immunoassays utilized antibodies with covalently attached as the label, this has served as a yardstick against which all subsequent assay technologies are measured. For this reason, it is important to understand the detection limits for I. Radioactive iodine is a y-emitter that eventually decays to a stable isotope of lead. The decay process exhibits first-order kinetics so that we can write... 

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