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    Addressing leadership shortcomings has not been easy, as whilst there are any number of training courses available for engineers there is very little on offer for senior leaders of major hazard organisations, despite the fact that understanding the risk from a major accident is just as important as understanding every other type of business risk, if not more so.

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    Health and Safety Executive

    Process Safety Leadership: Engaging with Senior Managers


    Ian Travers
    Head of Chemical Industries Strategy Unit Hazardous Installations Directorate

    Corporate Responsibility

    We live in an age of corporate social responsibility Successful businesses demonstrate that they take good care It is becoming a case of who cares wins Good words, corporate branding, commitments made in policy statements or glossy brochures is not enough it is delivery that counts

    Successful process safety management is essential for business success

    Failure in process safety management can never deliver sustainable business success The consequences of getting control of major hazard wrong is extremely costly Getting it right pays large dividends

    Process Safety

    Process safety is shorthand for the ways in which major hazard risks are controlled one companys accident is everyones problem root causes are often common across all organisations. only as good as the weakest in your sector

    Process Safety Leadership:



    Successful process safety management is essential for business success Leaders: need to understand major hazard risks within their companies Should ensure process safety management is managed in a systematic way identify vulnerability and be sceptical should focus on major hazard safety outcomes Should work together, across industry, to share lessons and good practice

    So leadership is vital but what does it consist of?

    The vision of the organisation. The way in which: Process safety is given the right degree of attention and focus; Process safety considerations feature in key business decisions, and Understanding of major hazard risk and the importance of critical control measures is communicated and championed. what we do when no one is looking or checking up on us.

    Engagement with Senior Managers

    Operators, managers, engineers, contractors and members of the Board all have a role Senior managers who make the big decisions and plant managers who make the day to day decisions have the most important role Engineers and safety professionals who have expertise need to engage with senior managers in improving understanding of process safety risks. Use of non-technical terms and presenting issues in a plane everyday way is important

    Management systems were both deficient and not properly followed, control room staff had little control over flow rates and timing of receipt and did not have sufficient information to manage precisely the storage of incoming fuel

    A culture where keeping the process operating was the primary focus and process safety did not get the attention, resources or priority that it required

    Leaders Need To Understand and Assess the Risks

    What hazards are present What are the challenges to plant integrity/containment How can this give rise to a major accident What is the likelihood and what are the consequences

    Manage process safety in a systematic way

    Based on a recognised PSM standard, eg CCPS guidelines Multiple layers of protection based on James Reasons Swiss cheese model Tailored to the risks not one size fits all Systems designed to manage conventional safety dont easily transfer to major hazard risks PSM must be dynamic and never fixed

    People

    Processes

    Plant

    Process Safety Control Measures (Barriers) Preventive Barriers Mitigation Barriers

    MAJOR HAZARD

    Loss of Containment

    Outcome

    Determine the Control Measures (Barriers)

    Identify Vulnerability

    Know exactly how the plant containment might fail Know what the critical control measures are Recognise that people are the weakest part of a PSMS

    Risk Profile

    Control measures tailored according to the riskprofile. More emphasis, more in-depth control in parts of the process where numerous challenges to integrity and consequences are significant

    People are the weakest part of a PSM system

    Senior Executives because: Dont understand risk Trust absolutely the system design Make business decisions without understanding the impact on process safety management Dont know how to challenge what they are being told Have a strong bias towards messages about success

    Focus on Process Safety Outcomes

    Leaders should: focus on process safety outcomes and not draw comfort from the complexity of the control measures and the systems Question perfection - never fully believe that risks are being adequately controlled should actually know based on information from Key Process Safety Indicators KPIs Identify failings and act quickly and decisively dont just measure and feel good

    PSM Senior Executive Training

    Addressing leadership shortcomings has not been easy, as whilst there are any number of training courses available for engineers there is very little on offer for senior leaders of major hazard organisations, despite the fact that understanding the risk from a major accident is just as important as understanding every other type of business risk, if not more so. The good news is that industry and the regulator have recently come together to develop recognised training standards in process safety leadership and process safety management for everyone from front line operators to the chief executive of a major hazard organisation.

    OECD Guidelines on Process Safety Governance June 2015

    A team of international experts in process safety and leadership have written guidelines focused on helping chief executives and senior leaders recognise their impact upon process safety. These guidelines are designed to be readily adopted within existing corporate governance programmes such as Responsible Care, or can be used as a standalone set of principles by major hazard organisations, where the stakes are high and consequences extreme.

    How engineers can help: Top Ten Tips for Success

    Present process safety risks as business risks rather than relying solely on complex technical arguments when speaking to senior leaders Keep process safety on the agenda at all meetings, and offer to present process safety updates to senior management meetings. Avoid jargon!

    10 Top Tips

    Help senior executives to understand the basics of process safety management and take business decisions in the light of the potential impact on safety Ensure that senior leaders understand that process safety risk management needs a systematic approach based on several layers of protection, and that a one size fits all is not adequate.

    10 Top Tips

    In simple terms describe the risk profile for your part of the business and highlight the most critical control measures Explain that despite having expertise and diligence in risk assessment and design of protective measure nothing is ever perfect and flaws will appear, systems deteriorate, often without any immediate adverse impact but this erosion of the protective measures often goes unnoticed or checked and indeed tolerated

    10 Top Tips

    Make the case for focused process safety performance information being provided to the management team Provide real and focused evidence and data that highlights where systems have deteriorated in a format that can be readily understood by senior managers and include the potential consequences, backed up by previous real-life incidents, where possible

    10 Top Tips

    Show senior leaders the TCE article Advise your most senior manager(s) of the availability of the Process Safety Leadership training course

    Safety resources Loss prevention bulletin from IChemE

    Improving process safety by sharing experience www.icheme.org/losspreventionbulletin

    Safety and Loss Prevention Special Interest Group


    Forthcoming event Accident consequence modelling in the process industries latest development, 21 February 2012 http://www.icheme.org/SafetyConsequenceModellingFlyer

    Training courses
    Train from the top down with Process safety and the board at executive level to graduate level with Fundamentals of process safety www.icheme.org/courses

    Thank you .. Any questions?

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