Driving Continuous Process Safety Improvement From Investigated Incidents [Hardcover]

New perspectives on how to successfully drive changes in companies process safety management systems

Simply learning from process safety incidents has proven to be insufficient to drive performance improvements. To truly change, organizations must seek out & embed learnings in their programs & systems. This book picks up from previous CCPS books, Incidents That Define Process Safety and Investigating Process Safety Incidents.

This important book:

• Offers guidelines for improving process safety performance by embedding the lessons learned from publicly available investigations
• Recommends a continuous improvement learning model focused on organizational learning
• Provides examples for using the models techniques to drive ?continuous improvements

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.

Written for safety professionals and process safety consultants, Driving Continuous Process Safety Improvement from Investigated Incidents is a hands-on guide for adopting a model for successfully driving the learnings from process safety incident investigations.

Acronyms and Abbreviations xv

Acknowledgements xvii

Glossary xix

Foreword xxi

Executive Summary xxiii

Applicability of this Book xxvii

1 Introduction 1

1.1 The Focus of this Book 2

1.2 Why Should We Learn from Incidents? 4

1.2.1 The Theory of Root Cause Correction 6

1.2.2 Acting on Learning from High Potential Near-misses 7