Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)

Essential Practices for Creating, Strengthening, and Sustaining Process Safety Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

An essential guide that offers an understanding of and the practices needed to assess and strengthen process safety culture

Essential Practices for Developing, Strengthening and Implementing Process Safety Culture presents a much-needed guide for understanding an organization's working culture and contains information on why a good culture is essential for safe, cost-effective, and high-quality operations. The text defines process safety culture and offers information on a safety culture's history, organizational impact and benefits, and the role that leadership plays at all levels of an organization. In addition, the book outlines the core principles needed to assess and strengthen process safety culture such as: maintain a sense of vulnerability; combat normalization of deviance; establish an imperative for safety; perform valid, timely, hazard and risk assessments; ensure open and frank communications; learn and advance the culture.

This important guide also reviews leadership standards within the organizational structure, warning signs of cultural degradation and remedies, as well as the importance of using diverse methods over time to assess culture. This vital resource:
_ Provides an overview for understanding an organization's working culture
_ Offers guidance on why a good culture is essential for safe, cost-effective, and high quality operations
_ Includes down-to-earth advice for recognizing, assessing, strengthening and sustaining a good process safety culture
_ Contains illustrative examples and cases studies, and references to literature, codes, and standards

Written for corporate, business and line managers, engineers, and process safety professionals interested in excellent performance for their organization, Essential Practices for Developing, Strengthening and Implementing Process Safety Culture is the go-to reference for implementing and keeping in place a culture of safety.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-AIChE
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1W119010150
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781119010159
• ISBN-10: 1119010152
• Artikelnr.: 47087215

Autorenporträt

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) was founded in 1985 to develop technology and management practices that mitigate or eliminate chemical and petrochemical industry process safety incidents. Since that time, CCPS has published more than 100 books and held dozens of international conferences, each representing the most advanced thinking in process safety. CCPS is supported by the contributions and voluntary participation of more than 200 companies globally. CCPS is also the world's largest provider of undergraduate engineering curriculum materials through its Safety and Chemical Engineering Education (SAChE) program, with more than 160 universities around the world participating.

Inhaltsangabe

Supplemental Material Available on the Web XIII

Acronyms and Abbreviations XV

Glossary XVII

Acknowledgements XIX

Preface XXIII

Nomenclature XXVII

Executive Summary XXIX

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Importance of Process Safety Culture 1

1.2 Definition of Process Safety Culture 2

1.3 Warning Signs of Poor Process Safety Culture 11

1.4 Leadership and Management Roles and Responsibilities 13

1.5 Organizational Culture, Process Safety Culture, and Business Success 15

1.6 Corporate Climate and Chemistry 17

1.7 Summary 17

1.8 References 20

2 Process Safety Culture Core Principles 23

2.1 Establish an Imperative for Process Safety 25

2.2 Provide Strong Leadership 29

2.3 Foster Mutual Trust 32

2.4 Ensure Open and Frank Communications 35

2.5 Maintain a Sense of Vulnerability 42

2.6 Understand and Act Upon Hazards/Risks 49

2.7 Empower Individuals to Successfully Fulfill their Process Safety Responsibilities 54

2.8 Defer to Expertise 57

2.9 Combat the Normalization of Deviance 59

2.10 Learn to Assess and Advance the Culture 67

2.11 Summary 72

2.12 References 73

3 Leadership for Process Safety Culture within the Organizational Structure 77

3.1 Definition of Process Safety Leadership 77

3.2 Characteristics of Leadership and Management in Process Safety Culture 83

3.3 Leadership Vs. Management 96

3.4 Consistency of Process Safety Messages 97

3.5 Turnover of Leadership, Succession Planning, and Organizational Management of Change 98

3.6 Summary 103

3.7 References 104

4 Applying the Core Principles of Process Safety Culture 107

4.1 Human Behavior and Process Safety Culture 107

4.2 Process Safety Culture and Compensation 109

4.3 Process Safety Culture and Ethics 113

4.4 External Influences on Culture 124

4.6 Summary 153

4.7 References 154

5 Aligning Culture with PSMS Elements 157

5.1 Senior Leader Element Grouping 160

5.2 Risk Management-Related Element Grouping 170

5.3 Process-Related Element Grouping 181

5.4 Worker-Related Element Grouping 190

5.5 References 201

6 Where Do You Start? 203

6.1 Introduction 203

6.2 Assess the Organization's Process Safety Culture 204

6.3 Improving the Process Safety Culture of the Organization 225

6.4 Summary 236

6.5 References 237

7 Sustaining Process Safety Culture 239

7.2 Sustainability of Process Safety Culture 241

7.3 Process Safety Culture and Operational Excellence 248

7.4 Summary 251

7.5 References 253

Appendices 255

Appendix A: Echo Strategies White Paper 257

Appendix B: Other Safety & Process Safety Culture Frameworks 259

B.1 The Seven Basic Rules of the USA. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program 259

B.2 Advancing Safety in the Oil and Gas Industry -Statement on Safety Culture (Canadian National Energy Board) 261

B.3 References 271

Appendix C: As Low as Reasonably Practicable 273

C.1 ALARP Principle 273

C.2 References 275

Appendix D High Reliability Organizations 277

D.1 The HRO Concept 277

D.2 References 286

Appendix E: Process Safety Culture Case Histories 287

E.1 Minimalist PSMS 287

E.2 - Peer Pressure to Startup 288

E.3 Taking a Minimalist Ap