scholarly journals Managing Employee Participation based on OSHA’s Process Safety Management Requirements

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.26) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Noor Diana Abdul Majid ◽  
Dzulkarnain Zaini ◽  
Azmi Mohd Shariff
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Employee Participation ◽  
Trade Secret ◽  
Emergency Planning ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Compliance Audit ◽  
Implementation Method

A report published on 25 April 2016 stated that OSHA has issued 14 serious violations after an investigation conducted in a variety of industries including manufacturing, water treatment and oil and gas that violated OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard. One of the violations is related to the 29 CFR 1910.119(c)(2) which is employers did not consult with employees and their representatives on the conduct and development of the OSHA’s PSM elements which are process safety information (PSI), process hazard analyses (PHA), training (TNG), mechanical integrity (MI), management of change (MOC), pre-start up safety review (PSSR), contractors (CON), incident investigations (II), emergency planning and response (EPR), compliance audit (CA) and trade secret (TS). 29 CFR1910.119(c)(2) is one of the requirements in the OSHA’s PSM employee participation element. However, companies are still struggling to comply with this regulation due to unclear coverage and the implementation method for achieving compliance. Thus, this paper presents a framework and work-aid tool developed based on OSHA’s PSM 29 CFR 1910.119(c) which are helpful to the industries as they provide structured technique to plan and implement an employee's participation management system to achieve compliance in implementing the OSHA PSM employee participation element.  

scholarly journals A Case Study of Asset Integrity and Process Safety Management of Major Oil and Gas Companies in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Kuok Ho Daniel Tang
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
American Petroleum Institute ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Information Process ◽  
Work Permit ◽  
Oil And Gas Companies

Asset integrity is closely intertwined with process safety where the latter is often perceived to be equivalent or a subset of the former. In Malaysia, the requirements for offshore process safety are set by Petronas assuming exclusive rights to petroleum in the nation. It imposes and enforces these requirements on oil and gas companies entering into its production sharing contracts via the common law. Process safety management in Malaysia is strongly influenced by the US OSHA 3132 with elements comprising process safety information, process hazard analysis, operating procedures, employee participation, training, contractors, pre-startup safety review, mechanical integrity, hot work permit, management of change, incident investigation, emergency planning and response as well as compliance audits. These elements are largely included in the Mandatory Control Framework of Petronas and the trio of design, technical and operating integrity adopted in the process safety management of other oil and gas companies. These management practices align with the reiterative plan-do-check-act model. Process safety performance is also gauged with indicators suggested by international institutions such as the American Petroleum Institute. On top of the Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1996 for onshore processes, this study deems that establishing statutory law for offshore installations will be beneficial to propel offshore safety in Malaysia to a greater height.

Managing process safety information based on process safety management requirements

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Abdul Aziz ◽  
A. Mohd Shariff ◽  
R. Rusli
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Process Safety

Esso Australia's process safety management process

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 570
Author(s):  
Ron Reinten
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
High Pressures ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Process Equipment ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Safety Standards ◽  
Fractionation Plant

Safety is a core value at Esso Australia. We strive to observe the highest standards of safety to ensure that nobody gets hurt in our operations. We believe this goal can be achieved through a broadly shared commitment to personal and process safety—both of which are managed using our operations integrity management system (OIMS). In the Gippsland region of Victoria, Esso Australia operates oil and gas production facilities ranging from sub-sea completions to substantial staffed offshore facilities, an onshore crude stabilisation, three gas processing plants and a natural gas liquids fractionation plant, all interconnected by a network of offshore and onshore pipelines. Every day Esso’s Gippsland operations produce millions of litres of crude oil and millions of cubic meters of natural gas. Having all this fuel energy flowing through these plants each day at high pressures, and widely ranging temperatures, it is imperative that it is safely controlled and contained by the process equipment. How do we do this? With process safety systems. Process safety is a crucial component of OIMS that ensures Esso’s assets are operated and maintained in keeping with corporate and industry safety standards. In this presentation we show how process safety is managed within OIMS and how the people within Esso individually and collectively contribute to it. Our work in this area has recently been captured in a training package that includes a DVD shown at the conference. It was created to raise the awareness and understanding of all Esso employees about the principles that underpin Esso’s approach to process safety. This abstract outlines how we approach process safety across the life-cycle of our facilities and the role people play in managing this very important aspect of our work. Our training reinforces the message that responsibility for effective management of process safety lies with every employee and how OIMS is designed to assist people to achieve the desired results where all risks are appropriately managed. We have sought to connect the concepts used to manage personal safety, which are well understood by the workforce, with those that are needed to understand how to manage process safety.

scholarly journals Trade Secret Model Based on OSHA Process Safety Management Requirement

2016 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 1089-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Diana Abdul Majid ◽  
Azmi Mohd Shariff ◽  
Risza Rusli ◽  
Khairul Imran Azman
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Trade Secret ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Management Requirement

The Formal Adoption of a Process Safety Management Methodology Within an International Oil and Gas Pipeline Company

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Urra
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Pipeline System ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Organizational Governance ◽  
Large Organization ◽  
System A ◽  
International Border

Process Safety Management (PSM) is an integrated approach to managing loss prevention. At Enbridge, as with many organizations, several PSM elements of practice have been implemented with different levels of rigor, maturity and/or alignment with best practices. This paper presents Enbridge Liquid Pipelines’ approach to assess a strategy to adopt a formal PSM system. A description of the current regulation framework for PSM and the drivers for adoption are presented to explain the considerations during the scoping and design of a PSM system for an international oil and gas pipeline system that operates across numerous state and provincial boundaries, and one international border. The paper also discusses the requirements for organizational governance to ensure accountability for and ownership of individual elements of a PSM program throughout a large, geographically diverse organization such as Enbridge. Finally, a strategy to develop and potentially implement and manage PSM in a large organization such as Enbridge is proposed.

The Correlation Analysis of the Big Data for Pipeline Defect

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hewei Zhang ◽  
Shaohua Dong ◽  
Laibin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Correlation Relationship ◽  
Operation Pressure ◽  
The Impact

With the increasing of pipe diameter and operation pressure, the severity of the accident consequences has been increased, especially for the impact on the high consequence area. The safety of oil and gas pipeline is very important. At the same time, a lot of data were produced during the process and the amount of detection data signal has also reached the TB level. However, because the relationship between these data sets has not been established, most part of the “Big Data” in which the safety information of pipeline hidden was ignored and discarded. In order to effectively use the relevant pipeline data of the defects, the mutual information method was adopted to establish a correlation analysis model. Its main purpose was extracting all the factors that lead to pipeline defects from the “Big Data” and determined the crucial factors from them. A pipe segment on a long-distance pipeline with the length of 100km was taken as a case. Based on the correlation analysis model, the crucial factors which had great correlation relationship with pipeline defect were extracted, so as to provide reference to accident prevention. It is a new way of pipeline safety management.

Compliance Audit Model for Managing Process Safety in Process Industries

2014 ◽  
Vol 625 ◽  
pp. 406-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Diana Abdul Majid ◽  
Azmi Mohd Shariff ◽  
Edmund Soon Boon Thiam
Keyword(s):  
Input Data ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Process Industries ◽  
Microsoft Access ◽  
Compliance Audit

Compliance audit for process safety management (PSM) is a technique to verify that the implementation of the PSM program is in compliance with OSHA standards and to identify potential deficiencies in the PSM program used. However, unavailability of an easy audit techniques hinders the compliances to PSM standards in industries. An audit model is introduced based on OSHA PSM standard to provide a standardize format that utilizes the Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) as a basis. A case study based on the training element of OSHA PSM is performed to verify the effectiveness and to ensure the PSM standard compliances. The model is based on Microsoft Access which enables the user to input data, manage and track information. The model is useful to the employee as the weaknesses in the PSM program can be identified and rectified to prevent any major accidents.

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