Process Safety Culture & Management of Change
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Process Safety Culture
• Basic building block of PSM
• Combination of policy and behavior
• Positive and negative safety culture
• Key indicators for safety culture
• Improving the safety culture
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Positive and negative safety culture
• People work safer because they • People feel safety is not important
want to • Lack of policy implementation and
Positive
• Strong Safety
safety policyCulture Negative Safety Culture
leadership
• Safety runs through the • The momentary benefit is the
organization priority
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Process Safety Culture
• Indicators
Staff turnover Accidents
Increase
Productivity Sickness rate
Decrease
Profitability Absenteeism
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Improving the safety culture
Management and
01 leadership commitment 1
2 Competent workers 02
Effective
03
communication 3
Cooperation and 04
4 consultation
05 Training 5
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Management of Change
(MOC)
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Management of Change (MOC)
• Change for continuous improvements
• Is the MOC really required?
• Types of changes
• Every change has some impact
• Managing the impact is important
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Is MOC required
Management of Change
• Types of changes Does this
No Is it policy or No
involve changes personnel
of facility change
• Facility
• Procedure Yes
• Personnel Yes
Will it
Yes result in No
change
• Is the MOC really required? of facility
MOC not Yes Are changes No
replacement in Conduct MOC
required
kind?
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Impact of Change
• Every change has some impact
• Intentional but not thought out – Piper Alpha disaster
• Informal change – Texas city explosion
• Common reason – CHANGE NOT MANAGED!
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Management of Change
Risk Assessment
Segregation
Competent People
Review
Emergency procedures
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Thank You!
&
Stay Safe!
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References
ELBANHAWI, H., 2022. Process management system - PSM. [Online]
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OSHA, n.d. [Link]. [Online]
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[Accessed 2023].
RRC International, 2023. NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational
Safety and Health. s.l.:s.n.
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