Safety reviews, reviewing performance

Safety personnel can help lab safety by providing training, resources, and consultation for a variety of laboratory safety issues, including chemical safety, biological safety, electrical safety, laser safety, radiation safety, and other topics. They can also review the chanical hygiene plan, help develop and maintain laboratory safety manuals, conduct exposure monitoring, inspect fume hoods, and perform safety audits. 

How a product is specified, designed, reviewed and tested has an impact on its suitability to perform safety related tasks. There is an analogy here with PES (Programmable Electronic Systems), for which ISO 61508 asks for justification for die level of rigour applied to development activities. In that context, for sensitive applications, the need for formal methods is to be considered. Although considered, the need for formal methods has been discounted for the ciurent range of Trust applications. 

At first glance, it seems that every industry performs safety and risk assessment differently. On closer look, however, the fundamental precepts are the same The methods are systematic and comprehensive. An industry may favor one method over another, but in most cases, this is mostly out of tradition. Now is a good time to review the way different industries apply safety and try to learn from each other. In most cases, you can literally lift the safety method from one industry and apply it directly to another. 

The review resnlts fall into three key areas organizational design and performance, safety processes and communications, and risk-based managanent system. 

Chapter 3 presents introductory aspects of safety and reliability. Chapter 4 presents a number of methods considered useful for performing safety and reliability analyses in the oil and gas industry. These methods are root cause analysis, hazard and operability analysis, technique of operations review, interface safety analysis, preliminary hazard analysis, job safety analysis, failure modes and effect analysis, fault tree analysis, and the Markov method. 

Methods for performing hazard analysis and risk assessment include safety review, checkhsts, Dow Fire and Explosion Index, what-if analysis, hazard and operabihty analysis (HAZOP), failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis, and event tree analysis. Other methods are also available, but those given are used most often. 

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. 

SHEL (Safety Healthy Environmental and Loss Prevention Reviews) These reviews are performed during design. The purpose of the reviews is to have an outsider s evaluation of the process and layout from safety, industrial hygiene, environmental, and loss prevention points of view. It is often desirable to combine these reviews to improve the efficiency of the use of time for the reviewers. 

Equipment inspec- Reevaluate and possibly reset inspection intervals tion may provide a when equipment is used for handling different poor prediction of chemistry equipment safety, Perform management of change review due to change of material handled or change in process chemistry over the life of equipment. ... 

An overall review of the management of change documentation package should be performed to ensure documentation update items (including material safety data sheets) are addressed and that PHA action items are complete. This can be done by one person but is often best achieved by a PSSR Team. The process needs to account for ... 

When using the checklist, the reviewer should decide m advance which questions would not be applicable to the toller s operations. For example, the environmental and healthand safety issues associated with a toller that will be used solely to conduct packaging will greatly differ from a of a toller that will be used to perform an organic synthesis step. 

The PM is probably ultimately responsible to make sure that all project activities are completed in accordance with requirements as outlined in the HASP. In some cases the PM may be required to perform at least one on-site safety review during the project. The PM is also responsible for making sure that all incidents are reported promptly and... 

We must not forget the client. The client review is an excellent tool that can be used to get the client s first impression of safety performance. This has been shown to be especially effective when conducted on a formal basis after a phase of the project, or the entire project, has been completed. The PM and the SM should arrange to meet the client represen-tative(s) in a face-to-face meeting to discuss safety performance and possibly other parameters of the recently completed job, or phase of job. The information obtained from the review is immediately analyzed. Once analyzed, it can be used to prevent recurrences of identified problems, to publicize good practices and innovative approaches to problem solving, and to perform work more safely and efficiently. 

Establishing clear job procedures is one of the benefits of conducting a JHA, carefully reviewing and recording each step of a job or related task that make up the job, identifying existing or potential job safety and health hazards, and determining the best method to perform the job or to minimize or eliminate the associated hazards. 

After you have generated a list of hazards or potential hazards and have reviewed them with the employee, determine if the employee ean perform the job another way to eliminate the hazards, sueh as eombining steps or ehanging the sequenee. You should be aware if safety equipment and preeautions are needed to eontrol the hazards. 

The information that follows summarizes the findings of audits and site safety and health plan (SSAHP) reviews performed for eleven... 

A deactivated butane pressurized storage facility with two 750 m and two 1,6(X) m spheres was considered for partial activation of the two smaller spheres. A safety review showed that aspects of the facility did not comfily with with current standards of PETROBRAS regarding layout and separation. A PSA was performed with the following objectives ... 

R. P. Clarke. The Performance, Installation, Testing and Limitations of Microbiological Safety Cabinets. Occupational EJygiene Monograph no. 9. Leeds Science Reviews, Ltd., 1983. 

Design analysis procedures (reliability, safety, maintainability, etc.) Supplier/subcontractor performance review procedure Management review procedure Continuous improvement procedure... 

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