Other Process Safety Elements That May Affect Startup

Other Process Safety Elements That May Affect Startup 

This chapter has touched on the application and importance of nine basic elements of process safety and how they are interwoven in actual practice  

Additional considerations may need to be given to other elements depending on the tolling situation. 

Employee Participation Preparation for startup is an excellent opportunity to document employee participation. If a toller is covered under the OSHA PSM regulation, they must record PHA participants, procedure writers and reviewers, PSSR team members and test run team members. All these roles reflect the true intent of this element of process safety. Eveiyone benefits from intimate involvement in the management system used to protect life and health. 

Contractors If contractors are working at a toller s site, this element of process safety demands that they be informed of any hazards the new toll could present. If contractors are specifically involved with the toll in question and the company is subject to PSM compliance, other aspects of this element must be met. 

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