This 45-minute self-paced online module provides an overview of leadership and culture in the context of process safety management (PSM).
This is Module 15 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.
Format
Length
Date
Location
Member
price
Non-Member
price
Self-paced Online
45 minutes
N/A
Anywhere
Member price: £90.00 + VAT
£90.00 + VAT
Non-Member price: £115.00 + VAT
£115.00 + VAT
Agenda
Purpose:
- To ensure that priorities and strategies are established, championed and implemented and that sufficient resources are provided.
- To ensure that business decisions are made in the light of the implications for risk management and that stakeholders are informed and engaged on the performance of the business in relation to risk management.
- To ensure there is adequate and effective risk communication and visibility of senior managers is maintained to support and deliver a positive health and safety culture.
Topics covered:
- Importance of senior management in high hazard industries making business decisions based on their impact to risk management
- Importance of senior management understanding the basic concepts of risk management in major hazards
- Importance of leaders actively seeking out information on risk management rather then waiting to be told
- Need for leaders to be able to assimilate and understand the implications of process safety performance data when it is provided to them
- Importance of leaders being open to learning from others and to share their own experience
- Positive engagement in risk communication and understanding and its link to a positive health and safety culture
- Importance of leaders developing a continuous sense of risk vulnerability
What will I learn?
- The vital role leadership plays in ensuring process safety risk management
- The link between leadership and safety culture
- The key attributes of effective leadership in process safety management
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.