Ranking of process safety cultures for risk-based inspections using indicative safety culture assessments
| Autor: | W. Steijn, Jakko van Kampen, G. Zwetsloot, Sjoerd Post |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Computer science
Process (engineering) General Chemical Engineering media_common.quotation_subject education Energy Engineering and Power Technology 02 engineering and technology Test validity Management Science and Operations Research Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 020401 chemical engineering Ranking safety cultures 0502 economics and business Quality (business) Safety culture 050207 economics 0204 chemical engineering Safety Risk Reliability and Quality media_common Process safety management Process safety culture Inspection strategies Major hazards 05 social sciences Hazard Risk analysis (engineering) Process safety Ranking Control and Systems Engineering External indicative assessment Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 64 |
| Popis: | Although major hazard industries have no legal obligations to demonstrate a good safety culture, it is an increasingly important factor for risk-based inspections. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a relatively simple method for external indicative assessment of the process safety culture in major hazard industries. As a first step, a tool was developed. Second, the tool was successfully tested in a workshop with major hazard inspectors. After this ‘proof of concept’ and a few adaptations to improve the tool, quantitative evaluation and validation were carried out with a representative sample of major hazard inspectors in the Netherlands. In this stage, the tool comprised 30 questions, of which 19 sufficiently frequent valid responses were given for the validity test. The evaluations demonstrate that without specific preparations, inspection teams can use the tool to discriminate between plants with poor or good safety cultures. That is sufficient for ranking as additional input for risk-based inspection strategies. The resulting indicative ‘scores’ for safety culture correlate meaningfully with the quality of process safety management systems and the number of (legal) non-compliances, which were identified by the inspection team at the same occasion. The use of the tool can be further improved by training inspectors, making minor adaptations of the inspection process, and broadening the scope of a few questions. It is expected that external assessments of safety culture will become increasingly important not only for inspectorates, but also for a range of other external stakeholders. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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