Requirements management

Good management requires the ability to stay current with technology. Eor this reason the EDS has been designed on a hardware platform (Eigure 4-99) that provides expansion capabilities for new hardware and software packages. The many available packages include ... 

As a set of minimum standards, ISO 9000 addresses the business community. It was intended for purchasers as a means for them to obtain products and services of consistent quality from their suppliers. In place of purchaser-specified general quality management requirements, ISO 9000 became the common requirement and hence eliminated the need for such requirements. As a consequence, it provides suppliers that meet its requirements with a demonstrable capability that others may not possess and hence such capability becomes a persuasive marketing tool that will increase market share. ISO 9000 was also intended for application to all types of industry and therefore did not contain requirements for any specific industry sector or type of products or services. Partially due to the scope of misinterpretation and the degree to which particular industries have common supplier requirements, certain industry sectors perceived the need for harmonizing such requirements in a form that added to those requirements in ISO 9000. 

The management requirements are specified, such as points of contact, program plans, work breakdown structure, progress reporting, meetings, reviews, interfaces. 

Define the quality management requirement for assuring the quality of the work. 

Problem solving in quality management requires everyone involved in the process to be represented and be part of developing a solution. This, combined with quality management tools, ensures that the chosen solution is workable and that fixing one problem does not give rise to another. 

Better measurement of performance. A common frustration in PSM and ESH is that end-of-pipe measurement is all that is available and it is too late to correct a problem once the incident has occurred. Quality Management requires that we seek out in-process measures and leading indicators of performance that will warn of potential problems before they exhibit themselves as incidents. 

Use Fishbone diagrams to identify all the process needs. This will draw heavily on the work to identify the PSM and ESH programs and elements and the Quality Management requirements. It will also identify any special expertise, information or equipment needs. Fishboning is described in several of the quality management references given in Chapter 1, and an example is provided in Exhibit 5-4. 

Measurement of performance. Quality Management requires that measures of performance be established for every activity. These measures include end-of-pipe measurement, such as amounts of material released into the environment or injury rates, and in-process measures of how efficiently you are managing, such as time to review safety improvement proposals or total resources expended on PSM. Each team should be required to identify potential performance measures for the processes they are developing and the activities these processes manage. Many of the end-of-pipe measures will already exist these should be critically examined to ensure that they truly measure performance and are not unduly influenced by other factors. For example, the number of accidents in a fleet of road vehicles is almost directly dependent on the number of miles driven with no improvement in performance, a reduction in miles driven would reduce the number of accidents. 

As described in the previous chapter, Quality Management requires that measures of performance be established. These measures are intended to be used to monitor quality and improvement in performance. 

Effective risk management requires not just an understanding of overall risk, but also an understanding of the underlying contributors to that risk. Once these contributors are identified, management can establish appropriate administrative or engineered systems to ensure that the contributors are adequately controlled. 

Persons who handle used oil are subject to specific management requirements depending on the extent of their used oil recycling activities. The following handlers are subject to used oil management standards 2... 

Although different used oil handlers may have specific management requirements for their oil, all handlers must... 

The standards include full operation and management requirements for permitted facilities (new) and less stringent provisions for interim status facilities (existing). The TSDF standards require facilities to comply with... 

Because hazardous waste combustion units are a type of TSDF, they are subject to the general TSDF standards in addition to combustion unit performance standards and operating requirements. Combustion units are also subject to specific waste analysis, inspection and monitoring, and residue management requirements. 

Nance, R. and Balci, O. (1987) Simulation model management requirement, in Systems and Control Encyclopedia Theory, Technology, Applications (ed. Singh), Pergamon, Oxford, pp. 4328-4333. 

Process security and process safety have many parallels and use many common programs and systems for achieving their ends. Process security management requires a systems approach to develop a comprehensive security program, which shares many common elements with process safety management. 

Inventory management requires the starting inventory within the first planning period called carry-over inventory Kn, V pJ eI12, t,sT. 

Using lists of chemicals is an inadequate approach for regulatory coverage of reactive hazards. Improving reactive hazard management requires that both regulators and industry address the hazards from combinations of chemicals and process-specific conditions rather than focus exclusively on the inherent properties of individual chemicals. (CSB 2002b)1... 

For processes already covered under the OSHA PSM Standard, do the safety management requirements of the standard adequately address reactive hazards If not, what should be added or changed ... 

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