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Process Safety Culture
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To establish and reinforce high standards of process safety performance through the organisational norms for employee and contractor values and behaviours at all levels in the organisation.
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2
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Compliance with Standards
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To ensure that the facility conforms to the applicable standards, codes and regulations so that the facility operates in a safe and legal fashion.
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3
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Corporate Process Safety Competency
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A key aspect of demonstrating commitment to process safety, the process safety competency element is about developing, sustaining and enhancing organisational competency. This is different to individual competency assurance (which is covered in element 12). The key concern here is the concept of the ‘learning’ or ‘transformational’ organisation
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4
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Workforce Involvement
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Personnel at all levels of the organisation should have roles, responsibilities and opportunities to effectively contribute to process safety programmes. This element ensures that a system is developed for enabling the participation of operators, technicians and contractors in the development and implementation of process safety activities through employee participation
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5
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Stakeholder Outreach
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To ensure that internal and external stakeholders to the organisation are identified, and that their information needs are understood and adequately met.
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6
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Process Knowledge Management
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To enable risk assessment and risk-based process safety. Understanding process risk depends on having accurate process knowledge, and without an understanding of process risk, process safety can never be assured.
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7
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Hazards and Effects Management Process (HEMP)
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To enable risk assessment and risk-based process safety. Understanding process risk depends on correctly and completely identifying the hazards associated with the operation, and accurately assessing the risks posed by those hazards. Without an understanding of process risk, process safety can never be assured.
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8
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Operating Procedures
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A consistent high level of human performance is essential for a successful process safety programme. Up to date clear operating procedures assure that the intended and proven methods and techniques are applied consistently.
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9
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Permit to Work
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To ensure that the risks associated with non-routine work are managed in a systematic way through the application of a permit-to-work system and operations / maintenance procedures (which are described in the previous element)
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10
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Technical Integrity
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To ensure that equipment is properly designed, fabricated, installed and maintained in accordance with recognised standards and codes, and that it fulfils its design intent and remains fit for purpose until removed from operation
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11
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Contractor Management
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To ensure that contracted services do not add to or increase process safety risk by ensuring familiarity with process safety risks and a formalised process to manage contractor activities from a process safety (as well as commercial) point-of-view.
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12
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Training and Performance Assurance
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A consistent high level of human performance is essential for a successful process safety programme. Training and performance assurance provides confidence and demonstration that work tasks will be consistently completed to the required standard, and that personnel have the knowledge and ability to respond appropriately to non-routine situations.
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13
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Management of Change
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To ensure that changes made to plant equipment or technology, or to the Organisation operating the equipment, do not result in the inadvertent introduction of new hazards and risks, or unknowingly increase the risk from existing hazards.
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14
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Operational Readiness
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To ensure that equipment is safe to start-up and operate, and that the activities necessary to ensure continued fitness for service have been put in place. It covers start up of new equipment, modified equipment and existing equipment re-starting after a plant shutdown
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15
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Conduct of Operations
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To create an organisation that demonstrates excellence in the performance of every task, and has zero tolerance for deviations.
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16
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Emergency Management
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To reduce the consequences of a major accident and to save lives, protect property and the environment.
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17
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Incident Investigation
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To learn from incidents and near misses and to prevent them from recurring. Identifying and correcting systemic incident causes will not only help prevent a repeat of that incident but by strengthening the AI-PSM management system can prevent other incidents.
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18
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Measurement and Metrics
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To provide a means for near-real-time monitoring of the performance of the AI-PSM system, and so indicate whether process risk is being managed as low as reasonably practicable and in line with company criteria for tolerable risk.
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19
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Auditing
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To reduce risk by systematically and pro-actively identifying strengths and weaknesses in the implementation of AI-PSM.
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20
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Management Review and Continuous Improvement
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To ensure that the defined AI-PSM activities produce the desired results throughout the facility lifecycle.
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