Driving Continuous Process Safety Improvement From Investigated Incidents

This book provides guidelines for improving process safety performance by embedding the lessons learned from publicly available investigations and recommends a continuous improvement learning model focused on organizational learning. It also contains an index of more than 400 investigated incidents and introduces the concept of Drilldown to help find lessons that might not have been mentioned before.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 24 June 2021
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

New perspectives are emerging on how to effectively drive changes in companies' process safety management systems. It has become evident that simply learning from process safety incidents alone is insufficient to achieve significant performance improvements. To truly transform, organizations must actively seek out and embed learnings into their programs and systems. This book builds upon previous publications from the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), including "Incidents That Define Process Safety" and "Investigating Process Safety Incidents."

This important book offers valuable guidelines for enhancing process safety performance by integrating the lessons learned from publicly available investigations. It advocates for a continuous improvement learning model that emphasizes organizational learning. The book provides practical examples of how to apply these techniques to drive continuous improvements. Additionally, it includes an extensive index of over 400 investigated incidents, along with the introduction of the concept of "Drilldown," which aims to uncover lessons that may have been overlooked in previous investigations.

Written specifically for safety professionals and process safety consultants, "Driving Continuous Process Safety Improvement from Investigated Incidents" serves as a hands-on guide for adopting a model for successfully driving the learnings from process safety incident investigations. By embracing these new perspectives and implementing effective strategies, organizations can enhance their process safety management systems and achieve a higher level of performance and reliability.

Weight: 592g
Dimension: 158 x 236 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119768661