RR909 - Safety performance indicators in the explosives sector - HSE

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Key Messages
n SPIs are a useful tool to enable monitoring of major hazards. Monitoring is a
critical element in effectively controlling major accident hazards. The objective
of monitoring is to:
­ Give critical information about whether major hazards are being controlled;
­ Enable the identification of weak and strong areas of safety via trends in
SPI data.
n The most important consideration is that SPIs are of practical benefit in
informing decisions/ actions to be taken. Collected SPI data is useless unless
it is actually used to monitor and improve health and safety performance.
n When devising your own SPIs remember that they should:
­ Be specific to site;
­ Be focused on key elements of major hazard controls;
­ Inform decisions on actions/improvements;
­ Be simple;
­ Be meaningful.
n An effective set of indicators is likely to include both leading and lagging
indicators.
5 Introduction Developing Safety Performance Indicators in the Explosives Industry