Process Safety Performance Indicators
Measuring barrier health rather than counting the injuries you already knew about
Personal injury rates say almost nothing about major accident risk, as Texas City demonstrated. This course covers the tiered indicator structure in API RP 754, how to select leading indicators that reflect barrier health, and how to report them so they change decisions.
This course sits alongside our Process Safety Management Systems consulting work, so what is taught is what we do.
Who should attend
Course content
Every module is taught with worked examples and exercises drawn from real plant, and adapted to your own process where the course runs in house.
Why injury rates mislead
- Texas City and the divergence between personal and process safety performance
- Lagging and leading indicators defined usefully
- What a metric does to behaviour once it is reported upward
The tiered structure
- Tier 1 and Tier 2 loss of primary containment thresholds
- Tier 3 challenges to safety systems
- Tier 4 operating discipline and management system performance
- Consistent classification across sites
Selecting leading indicators
- Barrier health as the organising idea
- Overdue inspections, deferred maintenance, bypass hours and alarm load
- Study action closure and management of change backlog
- Choosing few enough indicators that they get attention
Reporting and response
- Presenting trend rather than single period counts
- Setting targets that do not incentivise under reporting
- Escalation thresholds and who acts
- Board and executive level process safety reporting
What you receive
- An indicator set specification with definitions
- A classification guide for tier thresholds
- A reporting dashboard specification
- Assessment result and attendance record
What changes afterwards
- Leadership sees process safety performance rather than injury statistics
- Barrier degradation becomes visible before it causes an event
- Classification is consistent enough for sites to be compared
- Indicators drive action instead of filling a monthly report
Standards and references
We teach Process Safety Performance Indicators against API RP 754 process safety performance indicators for the refining and petrochemical industries and the codes listed with it, at the edition current when you run it.
Run Process Safety Performance Indicators for your team
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