Make sure that the system applies to existing equipment.Ensure a system exists to effectively use industry and company standards.

Disciplined Adherence to Standards supports both safe AND reliable operations.

Use of standards promotes efficiency, reduces major accident potential, and minimizes opportunities for error in design, operations, and maintenance.

As industry standards evolve, companies codify significant new learnings in their identified standards for existing equipment.

Companies identify and manage process safety risks arising from gaps against these standards.

Companies also identify, document, and diligently follow a set of standards applicable to existing equipment. These standards for existing equipment set the minimum expectations for design, operations, and maintenance.

Companies identify, document, and diligently follow standards for new designs.

Together, the five company tenets and four societal themes were introduced at the Global Congress on Process Safety in 2013 and at numerous other occasions throughout the year. The four societal themes, if achieved, would also have a significant positive impact on process safety performance. The subcommittee also identified activities that need to occur in the public domain, beyond the tenets that apply to companies.

What will distinguish the companies with fewer process safety incidents from those with more process safety incidents? How can we work together in companies and with all our stakeholders to further process safety performance?Įnvisioning the future, the CCPS project subcommittee members identified five tenets that companies with great process safety performance will live by. In this CCPS project, Committee members sought to envision the process safety future and ask what will be the characteristics of companies with great process safety performance in the future. In 2011, the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) began a project called Vision 20/20.

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