Process Safety Metrics Guide (ccps) 2021

Process Safety Progress, 2013

Industry over the last two to three years has put a lot of effort into implementing Process Safety Metrics. This is a good practice but, now that we have metrics data, how are we utilizing them to improve process safety performance? Air Products has been monitoring process safety performance for the last five years using combined Center for Chemical Process Safety and American Petroleum Institute RP 754 metrics. This article will highlight the approach we have applied, both through our lagging and leading indicators, to drive our process safety performance improvement programs. It will review the programs we initiated, leading indicators we identified, and how it also helped to improve our process safety culture. This article will also look at the importance of measuring severity and its impact in driving leadership behaviors. We will also discuss future opportunities to improve process safety performance via metrics analysis and follow-up initiatives.

Process Safety Progress, 2004

This paper advances the thesis that a complete assessment of the chemical process safety must be founded on specific chemical hazards data. Usually, these data can only be obtained from appropriately designed experiments using the correct testing techniques. The basis of safety and the window of safe operations arise from the relevant process safety data.

Organic Process Research & Development, 2022

Metrics & More Article Recommendations M any industrial chemical incidents happen around the world every year, causing fatalities, property damage, and disrupted supply chains. For example, the Tianjiayi Chemical explosion in Jiangsu, China, on March 21, 2019, at a plant producing chemical intermediates caused 78 fatalities, 76 severe injuries, 640 hospitalizations, and an estimated direct economic loss of $300 million. 1 An explosion at AB Specialty Silicones in Waukegan, Illinois, on May 3, 2019, killed four workers. 2 More recently, on July 27, 2021, an explosion at the Chempark complex in Leverkusen, Germany, caused seven fatalities and left 31 injured. 3 While these were local events, process safety incidents like these can have international consequences. For example, the Tianjiayi explosion caused disruptions for many global chemical and pharmaceutical companies who were buyers of the company's products. 4 Systematically studying process safety performance and learning from the past is an effective way to prevent such incidents. 5 But improving process safety does not mean we need to wait to learn when the next explosion, death, or injury occurs. Instead, research that contributes to preventing process safety incidents from ever occurring is regularly published in several journals, including Organic Process Research & Development (OPR&D), ACS Chemical Health & Safety (ACS CHAS), and the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries (JLPPI). These three journals have now pooled their efforts to publish a joint Virtual Special Issue, "Process Safety from Bench to Pilot to Plant." This unique collaboration between American Chemical Society and Elsevier journals highlights work that merges natural, social, management, and engineering sciences. The scope and audience of each journal can be found online. Briefly, OPR&D publishes research on industrial process chemistry to enable safe, environmentally benign, and ultimately economical manufacturing of organic compounds in larger quantities. ACS CHAS publishes work on current and emerging technical, human, and organizational factors affecting chemical risk management, safety information, regulatory updates, effective chemical hygiene practices, safety training, and hazard assessment tools. JLPPI publishes on technical, human, and organizational process safety measures to prevent and mitigate process-related injuries and damage arising from fire, explosion, and toxic release during the use, storage, manufacture, handling, and transportation of hazardous materials. Process safety starts with students, as they are the foundation of the chemical industry's future. Aiming to enhance safety in

Process Safety Progress, 2013

CCPS's Vision 2020 describes the characteristics of companies with great process safety performance in the future. This work is extremely important to the process industries and other industries that handle toxic, flammable, and explosive materials because it establishes targets to which companies will aspire for years to come. In developing the vision, it was also recognized that there are issues beyond the scope of individual companies that need to be addressed to enable improved process safety performance. Therefore, in Vision 2020 there are activities that go well beyond any individual company, indeed beyond the industries. The purpose of this paper is to share CCPS's Vision 2020 with the Global Congress, begin the process of engaging the broader community in the vision and the steps to achieve it, and provide an opportunity for companies to begin comparing their current characteristics to the vision.

SPE Advanced Technology Series, 1996

The paper describes a Process Safety Management (PSM) Plan to satisfy the requirements of OSHA 1910.119 for onshore production facilities and proposed MMS requirements for offshore operations. The information presented will help operators better understand the requirements as they apply to producing facilities and gas plants, and develop a plan to meet these requirements. Background In February 1992, OSHA 1910.119 was promulgated, requiring that a Process Safety Management (PSM) Plan be put in place by May 1992. This regulation applies to processes handling highly hazardous chemicals, including onshore production facilities and gas plants. Offshore, the MMS has requested that operators voluntarily comply with API RP 75, Recommended Practices for Development of a Safety and Environmental Management Program for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Operations and Facilities (SEMP). Many of the requirements for these two regulations are similar, and it is possible for an operator to develop a ...

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Process Safety Progress, 2011

The CCPS Process Safety Beacon is a valuable resource for promoting process safety awareness for front line plant workers. The Beacon is available free of charge and can be shared with colleagues. The purpose, intended audience, and suggestions for use are discussed. © 2011 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog, 2011

Process Safety Progress, 2008

From 1985 to 2000, large western chemical and petroleum companies, collaborating through the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), developed a sophisticated level of process safety knowledge and shared this knowledge in the western world through conferences and English-language books. This approach proved satisfactory to address the process safety needs of a large proportion of global industry existing at the time. However, since 2000, the industry has been expanding significantly in developing regions of the world. Communications in these new regions are complicated by language, time zone differences, and culture. Additionally, as reported by the US Chemical Safety Board, many smaller companies, even in the west, are often unaware of the considerable resources that have been developed. Finally, new engineers entering the workplace around the world are generally unable to travel, to attend courses or technical sessions. And because of the Internet resources available to them during their formative years, they are less enthused about plowing through hardcover books to retrieve information. It is clear that traditional books, courses, and technical sessions do not always successfully reach all of these groups. CCPS has recognized that the communication paradigm must be changed and expanded. This article addresses what CCPS is doing to (a) close physical and language gaps, through on-site participation and translation of key materials, and (b) use exciting new Internet tools to facilitate interactions across distances that meet the needs of new engineers. 2007 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog 27: 2-6, 2008 This article is a summary of a paper recently published. Please see Ref. 1 for a more detailed description.

Process Safety Progress, 2012

A surprising number of process incidents occur due to a lack of general understanding of process hazards and lack of basic hazards assessment, subsequently resulting in the absence of or inadequate Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) to provide appropriate safeguards for minimizing process risks. Comprehensive assessment of intrinsic hazards that are present in a chemical process or facility is one of the first steps necessary in documenting process safety information and technology prior to conducting PHAs and requires much more than, for example, just a review of the material safety data sheets of materials used in the process. This article reviews practical approaches for conducting and documenting intrinsic hazards assessments. 2012 American Institute of

Aiche Journal, 2015