Santos: The process safety management journey

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 571
Author(s):  
Andrew Antony
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Environmental Health And Safety ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Safety Standards ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Separate Identity ◽  
The Right ◽  
Key Aspects

Over the past five years Santos has introduced a new management discipline called process safety. This has been achieved through formalising existing practices, particularly around reliability and maintenance strategy, as well as benchmarking against industry leaders to introduce other aspects such as process safety awareness, design and operating philosophies. During the early 2000s Santos was focussed on establishing a company-wide environmental health and safety management system (EHSMS) and programs to build a safe and environmentally conscious culture. For the first two revisions of its operation, the EHSMS contained safety standards relating to personnel hazards such as heat, driving, heights and chemicals. A vigorous audit program was introduced to assist all operating sites and activities, improving their systems to effectively manage environment, health and safety risks. Santos now recognises that the establishment of a process safety culture involves five key aspects: the right platform to build upon; a separate identity, with specific standards defining requirements; effective integration into existing processes; audits dedicated to process safety that identify a baseline to measure against; and, monitoring processes and personnel safety performance with equal interest.

Effective engagement on process safety fundamentals in challenging times

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 540
Author(s):  
Olivia K. Cary ◽  
Nick Netscher
Keyword(s):  
Human Performance ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Product Price ◽  
Hydrocarbon Production ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Operations And Maintenance

Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd (EAPL) and BHP Billiton Petroleum (Bass Strait) Pty Ltd own a range of offshore and onshore hydrocarbon production facilities, which have been operated by EAPL for over 50 years. Over this time, EAPL has lived a rich history of process safety experiences, and developed a range of processes and systems to manage process safety risks. Despite technical system refinement and advances across industry we continue to experience process safety events, and manage risks with plant both at the start and end of its lifecycle. Many of our major hazards are inherent to our operations, and do not become lower risk with lower product price or field activity levels. It is therefore critical that we maintain a laser focus on managing process safety risks during this time of unprecedented change, and find impactful opportunities to engage with operations, maintenance and technical teams on their role in process safety. To this end, EAPL have commenced a journey of scenario based process safety management and applying it to our most significant risks. The outcome has been a step change in process safety literacy across our business, an increased awareness of safe operating conditions and a workforce engaged in managing safeguard health. This study shares how a scenario based approach can leverage a traditional safety case and safety management system approach and make process safety personal: Simplifying communication of higher risks and the equipment and processes that keep us safe Clarifying safeguard ownership and responsibilities for safeguard health management Embedding safeguard health management in routine operations and maintenance tasks Strengthening critical safeguards which mostly depend on human performance to be effective

Safety Management System - Workplace Activities at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, Inc.

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephane Roussel ◽  
Norma Jean King
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Employee Morale ◽  
Automotive Manufacturing ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Illness Prevention

Implementation of a safety management system (SMS) in automotive manufacturing and assembly has been recognized as an effective way to provide a safe working environment for employees, increase employee morale, and reduce corporate costs. Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, Inc. (TMMTX) has implemented a SMS in part of a regional goal initiated by Toyota Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA) to support the OSHA’s Injury & Illness Prevention Program (I2P2). This system provides a systematic way to identify hazards; eliminate or control the risk and incorporate in Toyota Production System. In addition, the established management system provides a framework to meet legal obligations under occupational health and safety regulation. The system implemented provides methods to manage injury and illness related to process safety, ergonomic, and industrial hygiene risks. The system uses joint labor and management teams to identify and evaluate jobs and develop and implement solutions. This paper summarizes the efforts of TMMTX in implementing and maintaining workplace activities that meet the requirements of this safety management system. The methodologies, strategies, and challenges are outlined to provide important links that are critical in sustaining these activities.

The Public Life of Private Law: Tort Law as a Risk Regulation Mechanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas A KYSAR
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Regulation Mechanism ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Environmental Health And Safety ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Tort System ◽  
History Of

AbstractAgainst the backdrop of contemporary climate change lawsuits, this article presents preliminary research findings regarding a remarkable and underappreciated moment in the common law pre-history of modern environmental, health, and safety regulation. The findings complicate the conventional academic story about the limited capabilities of tort law and its inevitable displacement by more institutionally robust and sophisticated forms of regulation. Section I offers a brief introduction, followed in Section II by a review of existing academic literature on the pros and cons of utilising tort law as a regulatory device. As will be seen, the consensus view seems to be that tort law is a clumsy and imperfect mechanism for addressing most environmental, health, and safety risks. Section III argues that the debate over tort law’s potential as a risk regulation mechanism ignores the distinctively private law history and character of that body of law, essentially asking tort to serve a purpose for which it was neither intended nor designed. Section IV then presents a case study of nuisance litigation in which the tort system achieves a remarkable and underappreciated risk regulation effect precisely by focusing narrowly on the traditional task of adjudicating alleged wrongs between private parties. Section V concludes.

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