Guidelines for Defining Process Safety Competency Requirements

By CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

This Guideline presents the framework of process safety knowledge and expertise versus the desired competency level in a "super-matrix" format, vertically and diagonally. The matrix references for potential remedies/required training may be tailored to a company's internally developed training, reference externally available training, or some combination of the two.

Chapters include: Identify Process Safety Roles & Competency Needs; Process Safety Competency Matrix; Individual and Corporate Process Safety Competencies; Conduct Assessments vs. Needs; Develop Gap Closure Plans; and Sustaining Competencies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Aug 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781118795255

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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

GLOSSARY

Competency

A PSM program element associated with efforts to maintain, improve, and broaden knowledge and expertise

Job Role

A position within the typical company or organization that is responsible for a certain set of common tasks and activities (e.g., process safety).

Management of Change (MOC)

A management system to identify, review, and approve all modifications to equipment, procedures, raw materials, and processing conditions, other than replacement in kind, prior to implementation to help ensure that changes to processes are properly analyzed (for example, for potential adverse impacts), documented, and communicated to employees affected.

Organizational Change

Any change in position or responsibility within an organization or any change to an organizational policy or procedure that affects process safety.

Organizational Change Management (OCM)

A method of examining proposed changes in the structure or organization of a company (or unit thereof) to determine whether they may pose a threat to employee or contractor health and safety, the environment, or the surrounding populace.

Process Safety Management (PSM)

A management system that is focused on prevention of, preparedness for, mitigation of, response to, and restoration from catastrophic releases of chemicals or energy from a process associated with a facility.

Proficiency Level

The degree of expertise required for a specific subject area, is defined by how much experience, knowledge and skills someone needs to maintain in order to meet one of the following definitions:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) express their appreciation and gratitude to all members of the Process Safety Competency Project and their CCPS member companies for their generous support and technical contributions in the preparation of these Guidelines.

SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS:

AIChE and CCPS also wish to express their appreciation to Melody Soderberg, Henry Ozog, Elena Prats and Molly Myers of ioMosaic Corporation for their contributions in preparing this book for publication and to Albert Ness of the CCPS for final editing. The collective industrial experience and know-how of the subcommittee members plus these individuals makes this book especially valuable to engineers who develop and manage process safety programs and management systems, including the identification of the competencies needed to create and maintain these