Process Safety committee

The SOCMA process safety committee informally shares information on incidents at member facilities, but it does not offer a formal incident reporting mechanism such as the ACC PSCMS. 

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The points of agreement of Chemical Process Safety Committee meetings should be captured in meeting minutes. In some organizations a review team of senior management reviews the minutes and approve the conclusions. Once the minutes are accepted, the commitments made by various participants should be recorded and the progress of each recommendation should be periodically reviewed until such items are accomplished. 

Periodic compliance questionnaires should be sent to the operating unit to review the progress on those recommendations that were made to reduce risk, but were not required to be or completed before startup. It is necessary to verify recommendations have been completed and this must be acknowledged in the records. Recommendations which were further studied and later deeded impractical or capable of creating additional troubles must not be allowed to remain in limbo. These items should be resubmitted to the process safety committee for reevaluation. 

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Safe handling practices are essential at all stages of production, from the laboratory to the manufacturing operations. The safety committee should inspect and advise on processing equipment and be responsible for providing personal protection, eye wash fountains, safety showers, etc. 

The safety review report is distributed to the committee which meets to work its way through the report, section by section, discussing safety concerns and potential improvements to the process or procedure. An individual must be designated to take minutes at the meeting and record suggested modifications. If the review concerns an existing process, the committee should perform a site visit to examine the actual equipment. 

Stanley Grossel, President, Process Safety Design, Inc. Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Member, American Chemical Society Member, The Combustion Institute Member, Explosion Protection Systems Committee of NFPA (Section 26, Process Safety)... 

CIA 1990. A Approach to the Categorization of Process Plant Hazard and Control Building Design. Prepared by Working Group 3 of the Major Hazards Steering Group. Issued by the Safety Committee of the Chemical Industry Safety and Health Council of the Chemical Industries Association, Eondon. 

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), a directorate of AIChE, was established in 1985 to develop and disseminate technical information for use in the prevention of major chemical accidents. The CCPS is supported by a diverse group of industrial sponsors in the chemical process industry and related industries who provide the necessary funding and professional guidance for its projects. The CCPS Technical Steering Committee and the technical subcommittees oversee individual projects selected by CCPS. Professional representatives of the sponsoring companies staff the subcommittees, with a member of the CCPS staff coordinating the activities of the sub-committee. 

An important part of (name s) mandate from the Committee is to assure that our plan for managing process safety reflects our businesses diverse needs and takes full advantage of our resident experience and specialized expertise. To do this, (name) needs your help effective implementation of PSM can only be achieved as a team effort. For this reason, we have encouraged him to identify and call on experts throughout Company X to work with him. 

Please join me and the Management Committee in congratulating (name) on his new assignment, and in supporting our commitment to exceiience in process safety management. 

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) wishes to thank all the members of the Technical Management Su ommittee who provided guidance in the preparation of these materials. CCPS also wishes to express its appreciation to members of the Technical Steering Committee for their advice and support. 

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) wishes to thank the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) and those involved in its operation, including its many sponsors, whose funding made this project possible the members of its Technical Steering Committee who conceived of and supported this Guidelines project and the members of its Human Reliability Subcommittee for their dedicated efforts, technical contributions, and enthusiasm. 

Used by permission and courtesy of the Committee on Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. 

Daniel A. Growl is the Herbert H, Dow Professor for Chemical Process Safety at Michigan Technological University. The author of numerous books and instructional materials on process safety, he also serves on several committees of the AICHE/CCPS. 

Joseph F. Louvar retired as director of BASF s Chemical Engineering Department to become a professor at Wayne State University, specializing in chemical process safety, risk assessment, and the design of experiments. He has authored many publications on process safety and chairs the Undergraduate Education Committee of the CCPS. 

We also continue to acknowledge and thank all the members of the Undergraduate Education Committee of the Center for Chemical Process Safety and the Safety and Loss Prevention Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. We are honored to be members of both committees. The members of these committees are the experts in safety their enthusiasm and knowledge have been truly educational and a key inspiration to the development of this text. 

Safe Automation and ANSI/ISA 84.01-1996 served as significant technical references for the first international standard, IEC 61511, issued by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). In the United States, IEC 61511 was accepted by ISA as ISA 84.00.01-2004, replacing the 1996 standard. In 2004, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recognized IEC 61511 as a consensus standard for the process industry. IEC 61511 covers the complete process safety management life cycle. With its adoption, this standard serves as the primary driving force behind the work processes followed to achieve and maintain safe operation using safety instrumented systems. 

Association (ABMA), recommendations for boiler-water limits, 23 221t American Chemical Society Committee on Nomenclature and Notation, 17 385 American Chemistry Council (ACC) 14 204 codes of management practices, 21 580 Process Safety Code, 21 831 Responsible Care initiatives, 25 337 American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH),... 

Each major company site has a hazard review committee to administer the standard and guideline. The committee includes representatives from process safety, chemistry, reactive chemistry, manufacturing, process engineering, pilot-plant operations, and the technology center. 

When a customer requests production of a chemical, the steering committee reviews the inquiry and determines the initial feasibility of production within 1 to 2 weeks, the committee renders a go-no go decision to the customer. Process safety plays a significant role in the decision process. 

In addition to the publications cited above, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) committee and the American Petroleum Institute (API) recently have addressed various aspects of blast protection technology relevant to this report, tn particular, CCPS has developed (iuidetinexfor Evaluating (he Characteristics of Vapor ( loud Explosions, hi ash hires, at id... 

The approach described is appropriate for assuring process safety for the preliminary design and is commonly used in industry where hazardous materials are handled. The committee further notes that a full-scale quantitative risk assessment (QRA) will be required in conjunction with the completion of the final design to assure that all process safety issues have been fully addressed. 

The investigation committee method is another unsuccessful approach. This unstructured approach is historically significant and was judged inadequate for investigating process safety incidents because it produced incomplete and inconsistent results. It often did not find the root cause level or all the root causes. 

Logic trees are committee-based investigation toois that use a muitipie cause, system-oriented approach to determine root causes integrated with process safety management program. Exampies fauit tree, event tree, causai tree, and why tree. 

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