Suggested Employee Safety Review Experience Record

The ultimate responsibility for the safety of a process facility lies with the senior management. A company s senior and local management should therefor ensure the appropriate process hazard analysis reviews are undertaken. (Appendix A provides an example of a typical statement from a company s CEO). 

It is also prudent that the general results of a process hazard assessment technique are explained or are known to management prior to its occurrence, so that their expectations are consistent with those results. Management should fully realize that monetary commitment (manpower and financial expenditures) are required to initiate, perform and follow up the review. 

Management should insist that reviews are conducted in a timely, efficient and cost effective manner. Schedule and cost estimates should be submitted by the project manager for senior management approval where appropriate. Where the use of a consultant is contemplated, whose costs and services may be extensive, competitive proposals should be sought, and the final selection approved by management. 

Team members should be committed to a review once it is scheduled. The team concept suffers if a member is removed for other duties while involved in the review. 

Management should acknowledge the risk results of the process hazard analysis reports. If the risks of the process hazards analysis are not acknowledged by management, review team members will feel their effort has be in vain and that recommendations do not have to be dealt with. Where management does not acknowledge their results, their importance will suffer and therefor the quality will degrade. Eventually this could produce a situation that existed before the reviews were conducted, i.e. hazards and risks are not really known or fully understood. 

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Table 3 Suggested Employee Safety Review Experience Record...

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