The UK Strategy for skills in Process Safety Management 2012 â 2014

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Contents Background ................................................................................................................................................2 The Process Safety Management Project ..................................................................................................3 The PSM Project contribution to competence management ....................................................................4 Programme Achievements .........................................................................................................................5 The PSM Project Board priorities ...............................................................................................................7 Increasing awareness of Process Safety Management. .............................................................................8 PSM Project Board .....................................................................................................................................9 PSM Expert Panel .......................................................................................................................................9 THE UK STRATEGY FOR SKILLS IN PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT 2012 – 2014: A SKILLS BLUEPRINT FOR INDUSTRY PROGRESS REPORT APRIL 2013 1
Background Following the incidents at Buncefield and Texas City late in 2005, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) continues to press the UK Process Industry to fully address Process Safety Management (PSM) and its implementation in their organisations. Much has been done by many interested stakeholders during the last several years to try to engage the sector in this important matter. In January 2007, the publication of the Baker Report on the Texas City explosion brought PSM into sharp focus and revealed major failures in the understanding of PSM and the responsibility for it by the senior executives in the owner company. The formation of the Process Safety Leadership Group (PSLG) in September 2007 was designed to meet the need for an effective framework for interaction between industry, trade unions and the COMAH Competent Authority (CA); a framework in which they could carry out a dialogue to jointly develop, progress and implement meaningful, effective recommendations and practices that improve safety in our industries. The PSLG membership, with senior representatives of the relevant trade associations, the CA and trade unions, also sees a need to raise the profile of process safety leadership throughout the petrochemical and chemical industries in response to criticisms by both the Baker Panel (Texas City) and the Major Incident Investigation Board (Buncefield) that leadership in this area was lacking and a contributory factor to these events. The HSE held a “Leading from the Top” seminar in April 2008 and has produced a number of PSM publications. The Process Safety Forum was formed to facilitate the sharing of lessons learned and best practice across the Chemical, Nuclear, Tank Storage and Upstream / Downstream oil sectors. The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) followed with an in-depth review of best practice across the country and produced its own PSM Guidelines later that year, and UKPIA launched its Process Safety Leadership Commitment, signed by all major oil companies. In the last two years, the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and other respected bodies and consultants have developed courses and have established regular Process Safety seminars to encourage businesses to engage in PSM. However, the uptake by industry has been fragmented and points to the weaknesses which may exist in PSM at senior executive level in many of our companies, with the issue compounded by the uncoordinated delivery of numerous PSM topics by many providers to a variety of audiences. THE UK STRATEGY FOR SKILLS IN PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT 2012 – 2014: A SKILLS BLUEPRINT FOR INDUSTRY PROGRESS REPORT APRIL 2013 2 PROGRESS REPORT MARCH 2013
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