2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety

(117aw) Why Is There a Regularity of Process Incidents Occurring, or Is It All Just a Re-Occurrence of the Past?

Author

Dickson, B. - Presenter, University of Strathclyde
We attend conferences to hear the experiences of others, learn lessons from past events and take that experience and learning back to our place of work. Yet a simple analysis of suggest there is a plateau in the progress to reducing the frequency of process safety incidents.

So perhaps the question to address is, “Why are lessons not being learnt”?

This paper will highlight various data demonstrating the “plateauing” of performance; highlight particular recurring indicators that need to focused on and look at how learning may be distributed to those that need to increase their knowledge of PSM. There will be a particular emphasis of the use of case studies in this approach.

The paper will particularly interest those still on the learning journey in PSM and those questioning alternative approaches.