Transcription of Key Process Safety Performance Indicators
1 Do you have the right information to enable you tomake business decisions that improve the control ofmajor hazard risks?You will recognise that good leadership is based on makingbusiness decisions in the full knowledge of the factors thatwill be lead to a successful outcome and deliver the intendedbenefits. In the past, information on Safety Performance hasrelied on factors such as lost time incident rates. Whilst thisis a good indicator of how well personal injury accidents arebeing managed, it is a poor indicator of how well majorhazard risks are being controlled. Companies with exemplarypersonal injury incident rates have in the past sufferedcatastrophic failure in the containment of major hazards, withdevastating consequences for the plant, employees, theenvironment and company work on developing Process Safety performanceindicators by the Health and Safety Executive and the UKChemical Industries Association has changed the way thatinformation on major hazard risks can be collected andutilised.
2 Developing Process Safety Indicators A Step-by-Step Guide1sets out a simple methodology that you can useto equip yourself with key information on the Performance ofthe most important protection systems you have in guidance has de-mystified this seemingly complex focused leading and lagging Indicators will give youearly warning when the systems you have paid for,implemented and rely upon for the integrity of business, startto go wrong. This will then give you time to take correctiveaction to avert problems. Good Indicators will also help youtrack the impact of business decisions on Process are some questions to check if you are getting the rightinformation:1Do you rely mainly on personal accident and injury ratesto monitor Safety Performance within your organisation ordo you have specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)for major hazard risks?
3 2 Were you involved in setting the KPIs for your organisationand do the measures you have reflect your understandingof the main Process Safety risks within your organisation?3Do you have a manageable number of KPIs or do you over measure because you find it difficult to identify themain areas of vulnerability within your organisation?4Do you understand what the change in the status of eachmeasure actually means for the control of risk?5 Are you certain that the information KPIs provide leadsdirectly to a change in the way you manage risk?6Do you always expect the status of the KPI to beacceptable or good, or does the culture of yourorganisation encourage upward reporting of bad news?7Do you regularly review the range of KPIs you have toensure that they reflect the main vulnerable areas in yourmanagement of risk?
4 8Do you benchmark your major hazard performanceagainst other organisations in the same or similar sectors?For more information contact visit: and Safety ExecutiveKey Process SafetyPerformance IndicatorsA short guide for Directors and CEOs1 Developing Process Safety Indicators A Step-by-Step GuideHSG254. HSE Books. ISBN 0 7176 6180 6
