Effective engagement on process safety fundamentals in challenging times

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 540
Author(s):  
Olivia K. Cary ◽  
Nick Netscher
Keyword(s):  
Human Performance ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Product Price ◽  
Hydrocarbon Production ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Operations And Maintenance

Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd (EAPL) and BHP Billiton Petroleum (Bass Strait) Pty Ltd own a range of offshore and onshore hydrocarbon production facilities, which have been operated by EAPL for over 50 years. Over this time, EAPL has lived a rich history of process safety experiences, and developed a range of processes and systems to manage process safety risks. Despite technical system refinement and advances across industry we continue to experience process safety events, and manage risks with plant both at the start and end of its lifecycle. Many of our major hazards are inherent to our operations, and do not become lower risk with lower product price or field activity levels. It is therefore critical that we maintain a laser focus on managing process safety risks during this time of unprecedented change, and find impactful opportunities to engage with operations, maintenance and technical teams on their role in process safety. To this end, EAPL have commenced a journey of scenario based process safety management and applying it to our most significant risks. The outcome has been a step change in process safety literacy across our business, an increased awareness of safe operating conditions and a workforce engaged in managing safeguard health. This study shares how a scenario based approach can leverage a traditional safety case and safety management system approach and make process safety personal: Simplifying communication of higher risks and the equipment and processes that keep us safe Clarifying safeguard ownership and responsibilities for safeguard health management Embedding safeguard health management in routine operations and maintenance tasks Strengthening critical safeguards which mostly depend on human performance to be effective

Santos: The process safety management journey

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 571
Author(s):  
Andrew Antony
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Environmental Health And Safety ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Safety Standards ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Separate Identity ◽  
The Right ◽  
Key Aspects

Over the past five years Santos has introduced a new management discipline called process safety. This has been achieved through formalising existing practices, particularly around reliability and maintenance strategy, as well as benchmarking against industry leaders to introduce other aspects such as process safety awareness, design and operating philosophies. During the early 2000s Santos was focussed on establishing a company-wide environmental health and safety management system (EHSMS) and programs to build a safe and environmentally conscious culture. For the first two revisions of its operation, the EHSMS contained safety standards relating to personnel hazards such as heat, driving, heights and chemicals. A vigorous audit program was introduced to assist all operating sites and activities, improving their systems to effectively manage environment, health and safety risks. Santos now recognises that the establishment of a process safety culture involves five key aspects: the right platform to build upon; a separate identity, with specific standards defining requirements; effective integration into existing processes; audits dedicated to process safety that identify a baseline to measure against; and, monitoring processes and personnel safety performance with equal interest.

Process safety management at Woodside – creating a sustainable global approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 430
Author(s):  
Rachelle A. Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
International Industry ◽  
Exploration And Production

Woodside’s Process Safety Management (PSM) Initiative introduced a framework for a holistic, effective and sustainable PSM system. We adapted an international industry standard to develop our own company-specific PSM procedure. Embedding PSM requirements into the existing Woodside Management System and workforce behaviours enables the business to execute consistent, proactive PSM throughout the exploration and production lifecycle – across assets and countries. Change was facilitated through creating a shared vision for process safety, ‘We all own, understand and act to control process safety risks’. We set clear expectations for ourselves and those we work with (our contractors) through defined roles and responsibilities. Fundamentally we moved our mindset to being ‘Line-Led, Risk-Based’, placing high value on visible leadership and operational discipline. Behavioural change was supported with a comprehensive training curriculum aligned to competencies and a coaching program. To facilitate consistent application of PSM across our global operations, we implemented a system using a whole of company approach. A key focus was applying a deep understanding of the hazards and risks in the business to establish a framework for quality multi-discipline risk assessments and risk-based decision making. Implementation included a suite of supporting technical and management system changes to grow a high value process safety culture – where we actively seek out the challenging issues and see the red indicators as opportunity for improvement. Our PSM Initiative empowers sustainable process safety performance through a risk aware workforce where everyone knows their top process safety risks and is required to take action to manage those risks.

Study on Human Errors in Substation Based on GEMS

2014 ◽  
Vol 635-637 ◽  
pp. 1973-1976
Author(s):  
Shi Wei Xu ◽  
Hong Lv
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Reliability Assessment ◽  
Model System ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Safe Operation ◽  
Human Errors ◽  
General Error

The accidents of substation can cause great losses, and human errors are the major factor that affect the safe operation of the substation, so study on human errors is of great significance for the safety management department to formulate countermeasures to prevent malignant electric operation accidents. General Error Model System (GEMS) is a dynamic model that study Cognitive processes of human performance, it has a certain value in terms of human reliability assessment, forecasting and optimization, etc. It offers prediction of human performance under certain operating conditions, it has a certain significance in improving cultivation of designer and strengthening human performance.

An Investigation into the Need of Process Safety Management (PSM) in the Palm Oil Industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 625 ◽  
pp. 458-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamidah Kamarden ◽  
Kamarizan Kidam ◽  
Haslenda Hashim ◽  
Onn Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Hazardous Materials ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Chemical Process Industry ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Process Failures

Palm oil industry (POI) is one of the major industries in Malaysia that contribute more than half of the Malaysia’s export value. Hence, the development of the industry also includes the well-being of the workers in the industry. As a consequence, the POI must adhere to several laws that provide protection for the workers’ safety and health such as OSHA 1994 and availability of guidelines to safety and health management such as OHSAS 18001. However, in terms of process safety, the POI is way lacking behind despite several incidents that show that POI as well is susceptible to process failures that lead to disastrous accidents. Process safety management has been successfully implemented in the chemical process industry (CPI) which is driven by the fact that the process is high risk with the utilization of hazardous materials and likelihood of fire and explosion. Hence, by comparison, it is found that these two industries has some similarity in terms of hazards, however the risk is found to be lower in the POI as compared to the CPI mainly because of the more hazardous materials that are involved in the CPI.

scholarly journals A Journey of Process Safety Management Program for Process Industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
Hanida Abdul Aziz ◽  
Azmi Mohd Shariff
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Process Plants ◽  
Engineering Practices ◽  
Technical Solutions

The growth of process industries and global economies are dependent on technology advances and innovations. However, the effects of these advancements often lead to more complex processes and comparatively severe operating conditions such as high pressure, temperature and reactive chemical with exotic chemistry. With the rapidly increasing scale and complexity of the process, it is becoming harder to control accidents in process plants. In most of the past situations, it appears that accidents could not be controlled solely by engineering practices and traditional occupational safety but should be immersed with safety management programs specifically Process Safety Management (PSM) to enhance the effectiveness of technical solutions. This paper addressed PSM program as stipulated by OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119. The PSM standard was implemented following a number of disasters, including accidents in Bhopal, India (1984) and Pasadena, Texas (1989). In Malaysia, Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards (CIMAH) 1996 Regulation which has the requirements attribute to PSM standard also discussed.

Integrating Performance Indicator Into the Audit Process Safety Management System

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
C. R. Che Hassan ◽  
M. J. Pitt ◽  
A. J. Wilday
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Management System ◽  
Feedback Loop ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Audit Process ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Audit System ◽  
Similar Elements

The development of the audit method has included the identification of possible performance indicators at each level of the sociotechnical pyramid for a range of areas of work in which accidents have been shown to occur most frequently. The measurementof performance indicators is part of a feedback loop which causes safety improvements. Integration of performance indicators into the audit system has been tested at three operating chemical industries in Terengganu and Selangor in Malaysia. A summary of the weaknesses of the similar elements identified in the three audited plants is presented. Analysis on the approach used enables the identification of deficiencies in safety management aspects. Keywords: Accidents, audit, deficiencies, performance indicators, safety management, and sociotechnical pyramid.

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