Guidelines for Integrating Management Systems and Metrics to Improve Process Safety Performance

By CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

This book combines the synergies between performance improvement systems to help ensure safe and reliable operations, streamline procedures and cross-system auditing, and supporting regulatory and corporate compliance requirements. Many metrics are common to more than one area, such that a well-designed and implemented integrated management system will reduce the load on the Process Safety, SHE, Security and Quality groups, and improve manufacturing efficiency and customer satisfaction. Systems to improve performance include: process safety; traditional safety, health and environment; and, product quality.

Chapters include: Integrating Framework; Securing Support & Preparing for Implementation; Establishing Common Risk Management Systems – How to Integrate PSM into Other EH; Testing Implementation Approach; Developing and Agreeing on Metrics; Management Review; Tracking Integration Progress and Measuring Performance; Continuous Improvement; Communication of Results to Different Stakeholders; Case Studies; and Examples for Industry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Feb 3, 2016
• ISBN: 9781118795101

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PREFACE

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has been closely involved with process safety and loss control issues in the chemical and allied industries for more than four decades. Through its strong ties with process designers, constructors, operators, safety professionals, and members of academia, AIChE has enhanced communications and fostered continuous improvement of the industry's high safety standards. AIChE publications and symposia have become information resources for those devoted to process safety and environmental protection.

AIChE created the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) in 1985 after the chemical disasters in Mexico City, Mexico, and Bhopal, India. The CCPS is chartered to develop and disseminate technical information for use in the prevention of major chemical accidents. The center is supported by more than 150 chemical process industries (CPI) sponsors who provide the necessary funding and professional guidance to its technical committees. The major product of CCPS activities has been a series of guidelines to assist those implementing various elements of a process safety and risk management system. This book is part of that series.

The CCPS Technical Steering Subcommittee overseeing this guideline was chartered to review and update the 1996 CCPS book, Guidelines for Integration of PSM, ES&H and Quality. This guideline has been written to reflect the increased attention for security at facilities handling hazardous materials and to capture the recent advances in understanding how process safety performance improvements can be measured with a combination of leading and lagging indicators. Since the management programs for the process safety, occupational safety and health, environmental, quality and security groups have developed separately in many organizations, this guideline has been written to help organizations identify metrics which affect process safety performance across the SHEQ&S groups. Integrating these metrics will reduce an organization's overall operational risks.

You can access tools, templates and documents for Guidelines for Integrating Management Systems and Metrics to Improve Process Safety Performance at the CCPS Website:

http://www.aiche.org/ccps/publications/metrics-tools

1 INTRODUCTION

Since its founding in 1985, the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) of the AmericanInstitute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has promoted the enhanced management of chemical process safety. The CCPS has always recognized that good safety performance is achieved througha combination of technology and management excellence.

The management programs for the process safety, occupational safety and health, environmental, quality and security groups have developed separately in many organizations. CCPS recognizes that significant overall operational risk reduction occurs when these programs establish common management systems and metrics across the groups managing them. Hence, merging the similarities and common needs of these different programs will lead to more efficient and effective management within the organization. This guideline provides both small and large organizations with approaches to help identify and evaluate and leverage the common systems and metrics across the groups based on the hazards and risks being monitored for each