Safety management efforts

One other notable source has also suggested that the focus of safety management efforts should be on the more significant risks. In August 2006 such a bulletin was issued in the United Kingdom it can be found at http //www.hse.gov.uk/risk ... 

Implementing an inherent safety review process is one mechanism companies can use to institutionalize inherent safety. The review process should integrate well with company systems for process safety management, new product development, and project execution. Safety, health, and environmental considerations in the new product or process development effort can be strengthened via the introduction of the inherent safety review. Companies may also build inherently safer design concepts into their existing process safety management system and process hazard reviews. 

Section 304 of the Clean Air Act Amendments states that employers are to consult with their employees and their representatives regarding their efforts in developing and implementing the process safety management... 

V thout such a commitment from management, process safety management will be far more difficult and time-consuming to implement. An initiative that lacks a collective sense of utgency and priority is likely to be carried out piecemeal, despite the best efforts and intentions of its champion. Over time, piecemeal implementation is a false economy, since it is likely to take longer and cost more most important, it is very likely to be less effective. PSM is a continuous process, not an event, or a series of discrete activities. Without continuity, the process can easily break down. 

Goals such as these can only be achieved through an ongoing, companywide effort. We endorse and promote process safety management as a priority throughout our businesses, and will dedicate the appropriate resources— time, skills, money— to assure continuous improvement. 

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. 

Process Safety Management Initial Planning Effort ... 

This model is unique in its description of what constitutes a management system, and its effort to address the planning, organizing, implementing, and control aspects of process safety management systems. 

Do not underestimate the amount of effort needed to "sell" the need for process safety management. This concept has become widely recognized in... 

There are numerous other CCPS publications that may be helpful in your integration effort. In particular, the selection of measures to monitor the effectiveness of your integration effort and identify continuous improvement opportunities can be enhanced through the use of the results of a CCPS research and development effort to develop performance measures for CCPS s 12 process safety elements. These results will be described in the CCPS Guidelines for Developing Performance Measures for Continuous Improvement of Process Safety Management (scheduled for publication in... 

Until now research efforts in safety management have been focussing primarily on the number of accidents (system failures leading to personal injuries andlor material damages) as the prime index for system safety. There are three main reasons for redirecting our attention in this respect ... 

Advertising successes of the process safety improvement effort demonstrates that improvement is possible. Well-crafted stories also explain the benefits that accrue to everyone in the organization. Of particular interest are stories where a process safety weakness was observed, possibly during a process safety audit, and an improvement effort corrected the identified weakness before it could manifest into an accident. Metrics can validate such improvements. Another example is improved reliability from timely maintenance of safety devices as demonstrated by metrics that educate personnel not only about the hazards, but also about the importance of reliable safety systems in managing those hazards. 

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. 

These ideas of causality also imply that accidents can be used for learning and improvements around safety. At their simplest level, statistics provide focus for interventions that 45% of workers killed in the construction industry during 2013/14 fell from height (Health and Safety Executive 2014) justifiably suggests this is still an area worthy of directed management efforts. 

Evaluations are made of this relationship between the practice of work and the practice of safety, and value judgements not dissimilar to those the Victorian mill owners made between outputs and workforce welfare. Within this comment above, efforts to practice safety are even positioned as more onerous than the work itself, and its negative role alongside that of production is clearly established. This shared understanding of safety will resonate readily for those involved in safety management at the site level. For example, the time it takes to follow safe working procedures is often used to justify violations, and as a site manager, the number of times I heard ... 

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