PSM · Foundation · ½ day

Process Safety Leadership for Managers

What site and business leaders must know, ask and do to prevent a major accident

Duration½ day
LevelFoundation
FormatOn-site · virtual
CodeTR-D10
PSIPHAProceduresMOCMIAudit 14 ELEMENTS · RBPS 20
Course flyer

Process Safety Leadership for Managers — one-page catalogue.

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Process Safety Leadership for Managers — one-page course flyer
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At a glance

What you will be able to do.

Site managers, department heads, business-unit leaders and board members with accountability for process safety; new managers moving into hazardous-plant roles

After Texas City the Baker Panel found that leadership had measured the wrong things and asked the wrong questions. This half-day session gives leaders a working understanding of major-accident hazards, the barriers that control them and the management system that keeps the barriers working, then focuses on their own role: the questions to ask on a site visit, the indicators to review, the signals of a decaying programme and the decisions on budget, staffing and production that shift risk.

  • Explain the site's major-accident hazards and the barriers that control them in their own words
  • Read process safety indicators and ask the questions that test barrier health
  • Recognise the warning signs identified by the Baker Panel and CSB: normalised deviation, backlog, overrides, production pressure
  • Set the tone: visible commitment, resourcing, response to bad news
  • Make production, cost and staffing decisions with process safety risk explicit
  • Leave with a personal list of actions and questions for the next quarter
Course outline

Day by day

Session 1

Texas City, Buncefield and Deepwater Horizon: what leadership did and did not do · major-accident hazards and barriers · the PSM system in one page · leading indicators and what they really say · the leadership questions

Session 2

Warning signs of a decaying programme · culture: reporting, response to bad news, challenge · resourcing and competency decisions · site walk and conversation practice · personal commitments and follow-up

Standards referenced
CCPS Risk Based Process Safety (Process Safety Culture, Leadership)
OGP Report 452 Process Safety: Recommended Practice on Key Performance Indicators
EI Process Safety Management Framework
API RP 754
Seveso III Directive
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