Process safety, leading and lagging

To provide guidelines and examples of effective practices for the development and use of process safety leading and lagging metrics ... 

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Process Safety in Batch Reaction Systems, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, 1999 Center for Chemical Process Safety, Process Safety Leading and Lagging Metrics, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, 2007 Reason, J., The contribution of latent human failures to the breakdown of complex systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London), series B. 327 475-84(1990)... 

The ultimate goal of the process safety system is to prevent process safety incidents. The Center for Chemical Process Safety s Process Safety Leading and Lagging Metrics Report (CCPS, 2007b) defines a consensus from several chemical and allied processing industries for definitions of process safety incidents and process safety near misses. If an organization adopts these definitions, a... 

Common process safety metrics, such as the number of process safety incidents, can provide a basis for such comparisons among facilities within an organization, among different companies within an industry, and even among different industries. The major goal of CCPS s Process Safety Leading and Lagging Metrics is to create such common definitions. 

Center for Chemieal Proeess Safety, Process Safety Leading and Lagging Metrics, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, 2007... 

As discussed earlier in the book, common metrics are necessary for companies to compare their performance with other companies and overall industry performance. Consensus process safety metrics are only beginning to be adopted within the processing industries. Consensus process safety metrics are being developed, such as those recommended in the CCPS publication Process Safety Leading and Lagging Metrics. Pressure from within the industries and from outside stakeholders will encourage the broader acceptance of current consensus metrics as well as the development of more such metrics. Such metrics will be used not only by companies and industries, but especially by outside parties to evaluate industry-wide performance or the performance of individual companies against the industry as a whole. 

Process safety—and the metrics to identify and track it—can be incorporated into a company s overall sustainability program. Adoption of improved process safety leading and lagging indicators that document improving process safety performance will be important in maintaining the organization s license to operate broadly as well as in a specific location. 

Center for Chemical Process Safety Leading and Lagging The Global CommunityCommitted to Process Safety... 

The immediately preceding quotation is the definition of a leading indicator in the Process Safety Leading and Lagging Metrics paper. 

Process Safety Leading and Lagging Metrics. Center for Chemical Process Safety, an AICHE Industry Technology Alliance, December 2007. Available at http //www.aiche.org/ccps/metrics/index.aspx. 

Process safety leading and lagging metrics Center for Chemical Process Safety 2009 www.aiche.org/ccps... 

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