The Process Safety Professional. The Management Elements. Chapter 4/1

We are releasing sections of the book The Process Safety Professional to our subscribers. We are up to Chapter 4: The Management Elements. The chapter starts as follows.

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We have already seen that process safety programs are typically organized and controlled using a set of management elements. The choice of these management elements and the manner in which they are organized varies — different regulators and companies have slightly different approaches. But, in general, they are quite similar to one another — they are more like dialects of the same language rather than different languages.

As we saw in Chapter 1, one of the first set of management elements was developed by the United States Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) in the early 1990s. Although their list is rather dated, it is still the controlling regulation in the United States. Moreover, as we see later in this chapter, the latest proposals from OSHA to update their standard do not change this list, which is organized around the fourteen management elements shown in Table 4.1.

Table 4.1
The OSHA Management Elements

1. Employee Participation

2. Process Safety Information

3. Process Hazards Analysis

4. Operating Procedures

5. Training

6. Contractors

7. Prestartup Safety Review

8. Mechanical Integrity

9. Hot Work Permit

10. Management of Change

11. Incident Investigation

12. Emergency Planning and Response

13. Compliance Audits

14. Trade Secrets

Because these fourteen elements are rather dated, other organizations have developed newer lists of management elements. The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), for example, has developed the list shown in Table 4.2, which we have already seen as Table 2.1.

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