Learning from experience

A company which is committed to a risk based approach to process safety will have in place a management system which examines, reviews and acts on both internal and external sources of information relating to process safety experience. 

For example:

• Investigation of incidents (and near misses).
• Application of process safety lessons learned to their process safety systems and culture.
• Continual measurement of process safety performance and improvement in areas that are risk significant.
• Constant review of management systems to ensure they work as intended and a facility is effectively managing risk.

 Chilworth can help its organisation with learning from past process safety experience by:

• Providing assistance with the development of incident investigation procedures, including training in writing work practices for incident investigation.
• Conducting investigation of process safety incidents and near misses to identify and address root cause.
• Helping develop suitable leading and lagging metrics.
• Evaluating of existing process safety metrics through on-going PSM audits and gap analysis.
• Evaluation of existing systems including the provision of training in writing work practices and procedures for Process Safety Compliance Audits, including management audits.
• Help with development of PSM auditing programmes and evaluate existing safety management systems.
• Conducting pre-audit assessments to ensure companies are ready for regulatory inspections.