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  • Using Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) to Improve Compliance

    Each pillar will have a PDP (Policy Deployment Plan (for example, there will be one for safety, security For example, How much does security support safety? What we are evaluating is each function’s contribution to overall safety, security, and so on.

  • How to Manage Risk during Organizational Changes

    Safety regulations and guidelines across North America call out for the need to manage risk due to organizational Ensuring that safety critical roles are effectively maintained when changes are made to either personnel or positions is an essential requirement for every process or pipeline safety program. For example, introducing travel bans may impact the ability to conduct field safety assessments. Are safety critical positions identified and are roles effectively transitioned?

  • Overcoming Compliance Silos

    Compliance programs tend to be distributed across functional groups such as: quality, process safety, occupational safety, regulatory compliance, environment, and so on. In the book entitled, "Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety" published by the Center for Chemical James Reason introduced the Swiss Cheese model to illustrate how even small holes in safety barriers While safety efforts may be applied individually to each activity more effective safety performance is

  • Catastrophic Harm

    Investigations into the explosion are on-going and lessons learned will no doubt be used to improve safety This is the usual process by which safety improves. When this is reduced to zero then the scope can be broadened bringing in more data to help improve safety recommend Sparrow's book, "The Character of Harms" for both regulators and operators looking to improve safety

  • Rasmussen's Risk Management Framework

    contributes to keeping the value chain safe from various risk including: quality risk, occupational safety provides useful insights when it comes to understanding risk across social-technical boundaries to achieve safety This is similar to Safety II (Holnagel, 2017), and Deming's work that defects are caused by normal causes

  • Ethical Compliance

    Whether you consider compliance in terms of safety, quality, or professional conduct, these are all closely in the control actions to adjust the management system and stay within compliance be it performance, safety You can replace the word ethical with "safety" or "quality" or "environmental" which are more concrete value creation system, according to this law, the system will always optimize away from "quality", "safety This may help explain the tensions that always exist between production and safety, or production and

  • Critical Defeats - Managing the Last Line of Defense

    Process safety refers to a systematic approach within industries to prevent and mitigate the occurrence The primary goal of process safety is to ensure the protection of personnel, the environment, and assets To minimize the likelihood and consequence of accidents, safety barriers (i.e. guardrails) are put in Examples of safety critical equipment include: Safety instrumented systems DCS or PLC shutdowns and What safety critical equipment is missing from the procedure?

  • The Effects of Cyber Risk on Compliance Programs

    This should increase the level of concern as to an organization's ability to operate safety should a similar to the WanaCry worm could disrupt an organization's ability to: Shutdown a process Make safety However, aligning cyber security with process safety programs continues to be an important challenge perfect time to review and evaluate the effectiveness of your cyber security, emergency preparedness, and safety

  • Compliance 1 and 2

    to the difference between total quality management (TQM) and quality control & assurance (QC/QA), or Safety 1 and Safety 2 from the safety domain.

  • What is Management of Change

    is required by EMP-RMP, OSHA 1910.119, NEB, API RP 1173, CSA Z767-17, ICH, and now part of ISO 45001 Safety to plan, implement, and manage change to prevent or mitigate unintended consequences that affect the safety Here is a list of examples: covered processes covered pipeline segments high consequence areas safety critical roles or positions safety critical procedures safety critical equipment or assets and so on API Recommended Practice 1173 – Pipeline Safety Management 8.4 Management of Change (MOC) 8.4.1 General

  • Don't Make This Costly Mistake With Your Compliance Controls

    In fact, failing to recognize the nuanced differences between compliance requirements in areas like safety Consider the common control around "training requirements": Safety Training : Focused on preventing workplace training" program may fulfill the letter of the law, but leaves gaps in critical areas like workplace safety with you to: Identify the distinct properties, dependencies, and risk implications of controls across safety

  • Integrative Compliance: Embedding Regulatory Obligations in Operational Capability

    A promise to "conduct safety inspections" might be fulfilled by human operators. Enhanced production processes simultaneously improve compliance outcomes like safety and quality. When you improve safety processes, you build safety compliance capability. When you enhance production efficiency or operational delivery, do compliance outcomes like safety and choose between efficiency and compliance outcomes, between innovation and regulation, between speed and safety

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