Digest
Measuring process safety performance — Process Safety Beacon, August 2008
Measuring process safety performance — Process Safety Beacon, August 2008
- CCPS
- Digest
- Process Safety Beacon August 2008
- Leadership and CultureProcess Safety
- Process safetySafety-performance measurement
- Downstream and process industries
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Summary
This bulletin explains why traditional injury measures do not adequately assess process safety performance. It distinguishes lagging indicators of past outcomes from leading indicators of management activities believed to predict future performance. Workers are encouraged to understand company measures and report relevant process safety incidents and leading indicators.
Classifications: Process safety; major accident hazards.
Classifications: Safety-performance measurement.
Classifications: Downstream and process industries; refining; petrochemicals.
Summary
Beacon on indicators and metrics used to measure process safety performance.
Process Safety Beacon August 2008. Themes: leadership and culture, process safety.