A Call to Action Next Steps for Vision 20/20

Process safety is important to our individual health, to our company’s success, and to our region’s business economy. Companies that handle toxic, flammable, and explosive materials understand the importance of process safety and risk management. So do regulators. So should the community and other stakeholders. Individually these stakeholders have been working for years to improve process safety performance. Accidents continue to occur. It’s time to leverage our resources, knowledge and skills to all strive for a common goal of great process safety performance. CCPS’s Vision 20/20 describes that vision. It calls for effort from individual companies and effort that goes well beyond any individual company, indeed beyond the industries.
The purpose of this paper is to share CCPS’s Vision 20/20 with the 10th Global Congress on Process Safety and to begin the process of engaging the broader community in the vision and the steps to achieve it.

Keywords: process safety, vision, culture, competency, learning, standards