A mix of voluntary reporting, with light enforcement of minimum reporting limits, has worked in a great many companies, large (50,000+ employees) and small. But there are a lot of concrete things the company has to do to achieve high rates of reporting of near misses. An achieveable target appears to be about 50 near [...]
First, note that Process Safety has been around about as long as Occupational Safety at some companies. For instance Dow Chemical and others have implemented process safety since about 1900, and Olin and Monsanto and others since the 1970s. It certainly didn't start with the BP TX city refinery accident in 2005. In fact, there [...]
Our staff has led and documented more than 10,000 PHA/HAZOPs of entire units in the past 20+ years. During those great many HAZOPs and What-Ifs and FMEA (we use various PHA methods as needed) we (the team) determine in the PHA meetings if we need a SIF and if so, what is the SIL necessary. [...]
This question was posted elsewhere... The short answers: PHA/HAZOP (qualitative methods) with a good team of experts can judge the risk of 950 to 980 out of 1000 hazardous scenarios LOPA can help reach a risk-based decision on the rest QRA is almost never needed (though many times others will require you to use such [...]
Many of us do not consider PSM part of HSE. Yes, both are trying to save lives, but they attacked nearly independent issues in different ways. And they use staff with greatly different backgrounds. Further, PSM, if implemented right, will greatly reduce operational and quality losses, since it focuses in process improvements. HSE Example: For [...]