This book provides guidelines and examples of effective practices for the development and use of process safety leading and lagging metrics; while also providing basic information about process safety performance indicators such as the what, when, where and why they are useful. The book explains how to calculate the three global lagging metrics recommended by CCPS. Finally the book also provides sufficient examples such that readers gain an understanding of how performance metrics can be successfully applied over the short and long term.

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons

ISBN:

9780470572122

Length:

236mm

Width:

160mm

Thickness:

18mm

Weight:

476g

Pages:

178

Illustrations:

Illustrated

• Items on The CD Accompanying This Book. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Glossary. Acknowledgments. Preface. INTRODUCTION. 1.1 An Introduction to Process Safety and Metrics. 1.2 Purpose of This Book. 1.3 Key Audiences for the Guidelines. 1.4 An Organization's Personnel Hierarchy. 1.5 Organization of This Guideline. 1.6 Using This Guideline. WHY IMPLEMENT PROCESS SAFETY METRICS. 2.1 Preventing Process Safety Incidents. 2.2 Benefits from Measuring Performance. 2.3 Tracking Operational Performance and Process Safety Performance. 2.4 Avoiding Complacency. 2.5 Conclusion. PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT METRICS. 3.1 Metrics and the Process Safety Models. 3.2 Other Metric Dimensions. 3.3 Forms of Metrics. 3.4 Characteristics of Good Metrics. 3.5 Conclusion. CHOOSING APPROPRIATE METRICS. 4.1 Process Safety Goals and Objectives. 4.2. Define the Process Safety Goals. 4.3 Define Process Safety Objectives. 4.4 Develop the Metrics Strategy for Improving the Process Safety System. 4.5 Select Metrics. 4.6 Conclusion. IMPLEMENTING A METRICS PROGRAM. 5.1 Management Support and Leadership. 5.2 Develop an Implementation Strategy. 5.3 Develop the Framework for the Metrics Implementation Strategy. 5.4 Implementation Analysis. 5.5 Prepare for Rollout. 5.6 Rollout. 5.7 Reevaluate Metrics Based Upon Experience. 5.8 Conclusion. COMMUNICATING RESULTS. 6.1 Communication Analysis. 6.2 Select Appropriate Communication Characteristics. 6.3 Report Appropriate Data to Different Audiences. 6.4 Tools for Communicating Metrics. 6.5 Conclusion. USING METRICS TO DRIVE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS. 7.1 Identify Weaknesses and Deficiencies in Process Safety Performance. 7.2 Leadership Commitment to Process Safety Performance. 7.3 Hold Responsible Parties Accountable. 7.4 Engage the Public. 7.5 Conduct Periodic Management Reviews. 7.6 Cultivate a Positive Process Safety Culture. 7.7 Communicate Process Safety and Other Organizational Successes. 7.8 Conclusion. IMPROVING INDUSTRY-WIDE PERFORMANCE. 8.1 Performance Benchmarking. 8.2 Metrics Allow Performance Comparisons for Multiple Parties. 8.3 Sharing Data Across Industry Leads to Improved Performance. 8.4 Conclusion. FUTURE TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF PROCESS SAFETY METRICS. 9.1 Improving Process Safety. 9.2 Societal Interests. APPENDIX I: LISTING OF POTENTIAL PROCESS SAFETY METRICS TO CONSIDER (BASED ON THE RISK BASED PROCESS SAFETY ELEMENTS). APPENDIX II: PROCESS SAFETY. PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: BP CHEMICALS HULL CASE STUDY. APPENDIX III: NOVA CHEMICALS UNCONTROLLED PROCESS FIRE AND LOPC METRICS.