Safety management system effectiveness

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 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. 

This book addresses the design, development, and installation of process safety management systems, but does not address subsequent operation and maintenance of those systems. The book s goal is to help you put together a workable, effective program and put it in place within your com pany or plant. 

Accountability is the obligation to answer for one s performance with respect to expectations, goals, and objectives. It is an important element of an effective process safety management system. To improve safety, the risk associated with human errors must be reduced. The work situation is the predominant cause of human errors and management has control over the work situation. 

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. 

OSHA Process A U.S. regulatory standard that requires use of a 14-element Safety management system to help prevent or mitigate the effects of... 

The authors of the Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety (KBPS) (CCPS, 2007a) described the need for constant vigilance as the price of maintaining an effective process safety management system. An operator not only must be vigilant (aware of both past and current performance), but must not assume that current performance will be maintained, much less improved, without intentional evaluation of critical parts of systems and their performance. Performance measurement and metrics are a critical part of the RBPS system. 

Both internal and external metrics are valuable. Internal metrics provide information to those throughout the organization with the information needed to evaluate the progress and effectiveness of the process safety management system. External metrics allow outside stakeholders to evaluate the organization s performance and to hold those within the organization accountable for unacceptable performance, (See Chapter 7 for a discussion on accountability.)... 

Thorough and effective analyses of workplace incidents are critical components of a comprehensive safety management system. Yet, many incident analysis processes (i.e., accident investigations) fall short. They frequently fail to identify and resolve the real root causes of injuries, process incidents and near misses. Because the true root causes of incidents are within the system, the system must change to prevent the incident from happening again. 

Rather than discussing the implementation of various regulations or seeking to evaluate the effectiveness of safety management systems against templates of best practice, it considers how people think about safety, what it means to them and how they go on to collectively use those ideas in their everyday work. This could also be deemed an evaluation of construction site safety culture, a notoriously problematic term and one that is discussed in more... 

Ahmad, K. and Gibb, A. (2004) Towards effective safety performance measurement evaluation of existing techniques and proposals for the future. In S. Rowlinson (ed.). Construction Safety Management Systems, pp. 424-42. Spon Press, London. 

The action principle of safety culture, principle of attitude and behavior and accident triangle principle can explain the action principle zero accident . Improving the safety management system, correcting people s unsafe behavior, controlling near misses and other small incidents are the effective way to achieve zero accidents objective for enterprise. 

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