This 45-minute self-paced online module provides an overview of monitoring and measuring performance in the context of process safety management (PSM).
This is Module 14 of 15 from the EI's Process Safety Management full training course, designed to provide an introduction to PSM and illustrate how the PSM Framework can be applied to identify address the hazards that are involved in the most industries and provide assurance that risk is being managed to a tolerable level. Each module can be purchased individually, but individuals will benefit most from the full course covering all 20 elements.
Based on content from the EI’s renowned High level framework for process safety management guidance ('PSM framework'), a comprehensive process safety management framework which captures industry good practice in PSM, and taught by a leading expert in process safety and former deputy director of the UK Health & Safety Executive, using recorded presentations and exercises.
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Self-paced Online
45 minutes
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Anywhere
Member price: £0 + VAT
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Non-Member price: £0 + VAT
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Agenda
Purpose:
- To ensure that information and intelligence is provided to confirm that the process safety management system is capable of providing the right level of risk reduction in a sustained way over the lifetime of the facility
- To provide feedback on deficiencies and deterioration in control and mitigation measure in a timely manner to allow for problems to be fixed and lessons applied across the whole business
- To facilitate appropriate monitoring and scrutiny be senior executives, the board and stakeholders (including regulators) that risks are being adequately controlled
- To inform strategic priorities and improvement programmes
Topics covered:
- Identification of vulnerabilities in process safety management systems
- Types of performance monitoring and their respective strengths and weaknesses
- Why and how performance data information should be tailored to the needs and understanding of their target audience, senior managers and key-decision makers
- Incident investigation based on identification and reporting of process safety incidents and not simply lost time incidents and accidents
- Purpose of incident investigation to discover which aspect of process safety management system failed or was inadequate – which barrier failed.
- Outcome-focused auditing as a systematic check
- Importance of period audits by individuals independent to the local facility
- Importance of clearing outstanding actions before audits are conducted
- KPI measures to check the functioning of each component of the process safety management system
- Importance of all sources of performance information being focused on the same set of issues and used to detect as early as possible when systems have started to fail
- Routine provision of information and intelligence from performance management to senior management so that risk-based decisions can be made
What will I learn?
- Three main ways process safety performance should be monitored through incident investigation, auditing and information from KPIs
- The need for a clear definition of a process safety incident to support effective reporting and investigation
- The difference between leading and lagging KPIs and their relative contribution to measuring performance
Who is this suitable for?
- Anyone who would like to develop and expand their understanding of process safety, within the energy sector and the wider network, such as water, power and nuclear sectors
- Anyone involved in major hazard processes, design and operations
- Safety professionals
- Engineers
- Graduates
How good is it?
- Taught by a leading expert in process safety and former deputy director of the UK Health & Safety Executive
- Based on the EI’s renowned High level framework for process safety management guidance document, which provides the energy industry with a consistent and effective approach to answer two key questions with confidence:
- How will we assure the integrity of the operation?
- How will we know we are doing it?
Tutor profile
Mr I Travers AMEI
Ian is a world expert on process safety management, leadership and the establishment and implementation of key performance indicators for major hazard industries, Ian holds the Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Franklin Medal for his outstanding contribution to Process Safety. Ian was the former Deputy Director (Chemical Regulation) UK Health and Safety Executive and has over twenty-five years’ experience in the regulation of chemical and major hazard industries and in the investigation of major incidents to discover the underlying causes. He is an expert on process safety management, leadership and the establishment and implementation of key performance indicators for major hazard industries. Ian holds the Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Franklin Medal for his outstanding contribution to Process Safety. Ian has over twenty five years’ experience in the regulation of chemical and major hazard industries and in the investigation of major incidents to discover the underlying causes. He led the joint HSE and industry response to the major fire and explosion at the Buncefield fuel depot in the UK and established the UK Process Safety Leadership Group. He also chaired the international expert panel to publish the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines on Process Safety Governance which is now the global benchmark on Process Safety Leadership and is also a member of the Energy Institute process safety committee.