The Power of Positive Process Safety Culture – How Can We Get There!

Most facilities strive for occupational health and safety excellence but, although it appears they have excellent safety programs in place, incidents still occur. During this presentation, the authors will explore a key factor to achieving and maintaining safe operations – a heathy Process Safety Culture. The presentation will discuss the features of best-in-class safety culture and how to develop and maintain it. The authors will discuss the role of management, and importance of resource allocation, communication, training, and continuous improvement to develop and implement a sound culture of safety.

The first step in developing a culture of safety is understanding its current state by conducting a gap analysis. The authors will discuss the tools to conduct the gap analysis and identifying the areas for improvement. The authors will further discuss the top-down and bottom-up approach to identify the gaps in a company’s safety culture and understand their goals and objective to achieving best-in-class culture. Further metrics for continuous improvement and verification will be discussed. These metrics will depend on current state of the culture whether it is reactive or proactive. This will help the audience to benchmark their safety culture and in exploring room for improvement in their current safety programs in their journey to becoming the best.