Process Safety Management

Explore process safety management fundamentals that reduce hazardous discharges across industries, from pharmaceuticals to oil and gas, focusing on terminology, risk mitigation, and global incident trends.

Learn how process safety management uses systematic risk assessment to prevent releases of hazardous substances through asset integrity, early warning, design, and maintenance across industries.

Assess how aging assets and legacy gear raise loss-of-containment risks, trigger unplanned shutdowns, and drive production losses, and review risk assessment, safety management, and safe behavior programs.

Define process safety and occupational safety, compare practitioner roles and responsibilities, and examine global incidents in Incheon, Visakhapatnam, and West Java to highlight risks and importance.

Understand the difference between process safety and occupational safety, highlighting workplace focus and broader environmental risks. Explore how professionals prevent catastrophic incidents from hazardous releases and other major safety hazards.

Explore major process safety incidents, from the Union Carbide MIC tragedy to ammonium nitrate explosions, highlighting negligence, monitoring failures, and their wide-ranging human and industrial impacts.

Compare CCPS 1989 elements, OSHA 1992 PSM standard, and Energy Institute 2010 framework, and learn how RBPS and process hazard analysis guide duties for employers and contractors.

Explore OSHA's 1992 PSM standard for managing hazards of highly hazardous chemicals by integrating technology, processes, and management practices, and performing process hazard analysis.

This lecture discusses CCPS guidelines for process safety management and risk-based process safety, emphasizing four pillars: understanding hazards, committing to process safety, managing risk, and learning from experience.

Energy Institute's high-level process safety management framework provides a simple, unified approach for leadership, risk identification and assessment, risk management, and evaluation and improvement across energy sectors.

Explore the 14 elements of process safety management and how hazard analysis, training, permits, written procedures, incident investigations, and emergency response support safe, worldwide operations.

this lecture highlights employee participation in process safety management and ensures access to hazard analyses, control mechanisms, and safety information for all workers and contractors.

Identify and analyze hazards using methods such as FMEA, fault tree analysis, and what-if checklists, then develop operating procedures from process data and hazard assessments for safe startup and emergencies.

Provide process safety management training for all operators, covering health and safety and emergency operations. Include refresher training every three years, hazard evaluations, hazops, permits to work, and contractor duties.

The pre-startup safety review analyzes initial startup and operations to ensure a safe transition, verifying design, up to date equipment, procedures, management of change, staff training, and hot work permit.

Develop an emergency planning and response framework covering chemical releases, early warning methods, alarms, evacuation plans, assembly points, drills, compliance audits, and trade secrets right to know for worker safety.

Explore four process-based strategies: standards-based, compliance-based, continuous improvement, and risk-based, while understanding hazards, monitoring leading and lagging indicators, and conducting periodic management reviews to raise the bar in process safety.

Standards-based strategy relies on established codes and consensus standards, offering prescriptive safety methods while increasingly incorporating performance-based and risk-based updates to address evolving knowledge.

Assess how a compliance-based strategy uses regulations to set minimum accident-prevention standards for workers, the public, and the environment, and why a compliance-only approach may require beyond-compliance risk management.

Drives a continuous improvement based strategy in process safety management by linking business processes to lagging indicators, raising the bar through feedback and management system modifications.

Implement a risk-based strategy for process safety by integrating regulatory standards, leading and lagging indicators, and regular management reviews to monitor risk and predict performance.

Explore the foundations of process safety management and risk-based process safety, including hazard identification, risk analysis, operating procedures, safe work practices, change management, permits, and performance evaluation by external auditors.

Strengthen process safety management by adopting risk-based process safety and strengthening management systems. Address recurring technical and cultural root causes that undermine safety performance.

Commit to process safety by strengthening a top-down safety culture, aligning standards, building competency, involving the workforce, and conducting stakeholder outreach to inform the public and responders.

Identify process safety hazards and analyze risks to define reductions, minimize effects, and lower the frequency of incidents. Manage knowledge for process safety operations with accurate, current information.

Explore how to manage risk in process safety via operating procedures, safe work practices, acid integrity and reliability, contractor management, training, change management, operational readiness, operational conduct, and emergency management.

Investigate incidents and near misses to determine root causes, assess incident trends, and share lessons learned, using leading and lagging indicators, audits, and management reviews to drive continuous improvement.