Safety management well-integrated

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. 

Water and steam are nearly always present in most chemical processes. Their physical properties are generally well understood. Process perils are sometimes related to the infamous deeds of water and steam. The thrust of OSHAs Process Safety Management Law of 1992 focused on the processes that handled a list of 140 highly hazardous chemicals as well as processes that contained an over 10,000 pounds (4,540 kg) of flammable liquids or gases. Even after those chemicals are handled with higher levels of mechanical integrity and additional scrutiny, we will still need to keep our eye on water and its sometimes evil twin, steam. 

The software assurance requirements are not well integrated with the system safety management requirements given in the sister-standard DBF STAN 00-56. 

Although the definition of process safety primarily involves preventing catastrophic incidents, basic worker safety and health receives attention as well when building a rigorous integrated process safety management program. 

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