Safety management system procedures

Introduction Review and audit processes are used in the chemical process industry to evaluate, examine, and verify the design of process equipment, operating procedures, and management systems. These processes assure compliance with company standards and guidelines as well as government regulations. Reviews and audits can encompass the areas of process and personnel safety, environmental and industrial hygiene protection, quality assurance, maintenance procedures, and so on. 

The audit team, through its systematic analysis, should document areas that require corrective action as well as where the process safety management system is effective. This provides a record of the audit procedures and findings and serves as a baseline of operation data for future audits. It will assist in determining changes or trends in future audits. 

Develop specific process safety management systems. Working within the pian, the task groups will develop specific systems and procedures for implementing PSM. The Division A team will focus on its own operations, while (name s) group will direct its efforts toward the other divisions. 

General References Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, Second Edition with Worked Examples, AIChE, September 1992. CCPS, Guidelines for Technical Management of Chemical Process Safety, AIChE, 1989. CCPS, Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems, AIChE, 1993. 

A safety management system for implementing the prevention policy has been put into effect. The policy should include the organizational structure, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes, and resources for determining and implementing the policy. 

Process Safety Management System Sample Administrative Procedure Title Incident Investigation... 

Therefore, if a leak-detection system has been installed to warn of releases of toxic or flammable materials from a plant, the implementation of a process safety management system should include the detection system as part of the process (CCPS 1989 CCPS 1988). In this manner the leak-detection system will be subject to the facility s management-of-change procedures, and changes to the leak-detection system, will be carefully evaluated before being implemented. 

Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, 2nd ed. with Worked Examples, 1992. Guidelines for Implementing Process Safety Management Systems, 1994. 

Will effective procedures guarantee that your plant can avoid all accidents No, they won t and they can t. However, as a component of your process safety management system, effective use of procedures can reduce the ntimber of accidents caused by hiunan error. Sound management practices encourage written procedures, and regulations now demand them for many processes. The purpose of this book is to make your procedurewriting efforts as productive as possible and to create accurate, efective procedures. 

The need to keep procedures up-to-date and accurate is a theme that mns throughout this book. Chapter 2 clearly shows that document control is a key element of process safety, environmental responsibihty, and quality. A workable Process Safety Management system requires that you control the access, review, approval, revision, and maintenance of procedures. If your plant has a Total Quality Management System in place, such as ISO 9000, document control for operating and maintenance procedures is essential to keep your certification current. 

Procedures/responsibilities the CER states a comprehensive health, environment and safety management system is in place describing the principles, policies, procedures and standards that are to be applied throughout the company . 

Organizational behavior is the quality of the safety management system, namely, system files and their implementation status which run a direct result of habitual behavior of the members of the organization. The run behavior of organizational behavior is the root cause of the accident. From the point of view of the coal mine roof accident, organizational behavior errors include two aspects, one is roof safety procedures are not perfect, the other is a point of order problems in the implementation process. 

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