Safety performance design

Where the culture and the operating system demand superior safety performance—design and engineering, management and operations, and task performance aspects of safety are well balanced. 

A failure modes and effects analysis is a systematic analytical technique for identifying potential failures in a design or a process, assessing the probability of occurrence and likely effect, and determining the measures needed to eliminate, contain, or control the effects. Action taken on the basis of an FMEA will improve safety, performance, reliability, maintainability and reduce costs. The outputs are essential to balanced and effective quality plans for both development and production as it will help focus the controls upon those products, processes, and characteristics that are at risk. It is not the intention here to give a full appreciation of the FMEA technique and readers are advised to consult other texts. 

The Guide to Process Safety is designed to help with implementation of the Responsible Care Process Safety Code (SOCMA, 1999). The guide presents voluntary, proactive initiatives for the continuous improvement of process safety performance. 

Involves a detail review of planning, design, procurement, fabrication, and installation functions to achieve the best overall project safety performance, lowest CAPEX, and the shortest reasonable schedule... 

Because there is always risk when equipment, instrumentation, and human activity are involved, there is no method of making a plant completely safe. However, facilities can be made inherently safer by careful examination of all aspects of design and management, using modem techniques that are now available. If we are to improve our process safety performance and our public image, inherently safe process design coupled with inherently safe process management is imperative. 

The preliminary principles forged at this multidisciplinary conference are intended for engineers to use as a guidance in the design or redesign of products and processes within the constraints dictated by business, government, and society such as cost, safety, performance, and environmental impact. 

The American Chemistry Council represents the leading companies engaged in the business of chemistry. Council members apply the science of chemistry to make innovative products and services that make people s lives better, healthier, and safer. The Council is committed to improved environmental, health, and safety performance through Responsible Care , common sense advocacy designed to address major public policy issues, and health and environmental research and chemical testing. The business of chemistry is a 450 billion enterprise in the United States and a key element of the nation s economy. It is the... 

Engineered barriers constitute a basic element in the conceptual design of repositories for radioactive waste in deep geological media. For the safety performance of a repository, it is very important to understand, on the one hand, individual processes in the barrier and the host medium in the near-field zone and the coupled mechanism, on the other hand, to parameterise all physical variables for the long-term modelling. 

Each of these approaches is based on certain principles that can enhance effective safety performance. 9.2.3. Workplace and Job Design... 

Designing for successful occupational health and safety performance requires a systematic approach. This includes understanding that the workplace is a system where changes in one element lead to influences on the other system components. It also means that efforts to make improvements must... 

The assumption in this chapter is that the system design exists when STPA is performed. The next chapter describes safety-guided design using STPA and principles for safe design of control systems. 

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