Commitment & Culture

CCPS RBPS Element 1.1 PROCESS SAFETY CULTURE

Developing, sustaining, and enhancing the organization’s process safety culture is one of five elements in the Commit to Process Safety Pillar (Foundational Block).

Process safety culture has been defined as, “the combination of group values and behaviors that determine the manner in which process safety is managed”. More succinct definitions include, “How we do things around here,” “What we expect here,” and “How we behave when no one is watching.”

Investigations of catastrophic events, such as the Longford gas plant explosion and the Piper Alpha disaster, have identified common process safety culture weaknesses that are often factors in other serious incidents.

EI PSM Element 1 LEADERSHIP, COMMITMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY

Assurance of the integrity of an organisation’s operations requires visible leadership commitment and accountability at all levels of the organisation.

Management must establish HS&E and process safety policy, provide perspective, set HS&E and process safety performance targets and provide the structure and resources to achieve them.

The following topics relate to this element:

HUMAN FACTORS

Incidents

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