The Need for Developing a Plan

An effective implementation plan for any new management system must consider a number of different issues  

This chapter addresses all these issues. As with several of the earlier chapters, the overall approach to developing a plan should be modeled on that described in Chapter 5 of the CCPS publication Guidelines for Implementing Process Safety Management Systems. The approach recommended there is summarized in the following paragraphs. 

Even if you do not adopt a company-wide approach, you are likely to benefit from some central coordination to help share experiences and knowledge between locations. A company-wide approach is more likely to be adopted if  

Facility-specific approaches tend not to succeed where the overall status of PSM and ESH needs improvement or is immature in its development. Local staff do not have the necessary knowledge or experience to develop and implement the integration project. 

This topic is also addressed in Chapter 3, Section 3.6. 

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