Driving Continuous Process Safety Improvement from Investigated Incidents

The process described in this book for learning from publicly investigated incidents builds on the traditional method for learning from internal incident investigations. In addition to standalone efforts to learn from external incidents, readers can use this process when learning from internal incidents to add weight to recommendations and ongoing communication efforts. This book contains guidelines for companies to improve their process safety performance when learning from incidents investigated by public organizations. It provides techniques to use reports and videos from public incidents by using different, detailed learning model scenarios. The book provides this learning model guidance for sharing public incident reports and videos. The learning model scenarios in the book include studies from a process with chemical reactivity hazards, operations involving a leaking hose or overfilling, and a company with cultural issues. These studies include a scenario on how to internalize a high-profile incident and one on how to effectively manage population sprawl, as well.