Safe Work Practices (SWP)
Work place fatalities and injuries continue to occur with hot work incidents, nitrogen asphyxiations, confined space, line opening and other activities because of unsafe work practices.
This website and its content are designed to reach, and provide value to, a very broad audience including operations, maintenance and engineering personnel in the process industries (Chemical, petrochemical, electronics, natural gas and others). In addition to appealing to larger, more established member companies, this information has been tailored to also reach both large and small, domestic and international.
Specific notes and potential vulnerabilities are presented, allowing users to personalize safe work practices in order to raise a sense of vulnerability with respect to potential hazards. It is intended to appeal to management personnel as they attempt to justify the investment within their organization.
Are you a subject matter expert in the following areas? If so, please contact Dr. Anil Gokhale at anilg@aiche.org for more information.
- Access to Hazardous Areas
- Electrical Safe Work
- Radiation Source Handling
Safe Work Practices
Core Elements for Each Safe Work Practice
Each Safe Work Practice (SWP) will contain information related to the following eight elements.
| Safe Work Practice | |
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1. Fundamental Intent |
Define the fundamental intent of the safe work practice, the purpose it can serve, and the benefits intended to provide. Draw veterans back-to-basics and provide a solid foundation for those in the developmental stages of their program. As part of each fundamental intent statement, include the reasons why we have the safe work practice. This is done by focusing on the following consequence categories: personal injury (safety / human health / on-site and off-site), property damage (fire or explosion), commu-nity impact (personal injury / property damage / evacuation / shelter-in-place), environ-mental impact (on-site /off-site), and business impact. |
2. Need / Call to Action |
Develop and publish specific notes and potential vulnerabilities al-lowing users to personalize the safe work practice in order to raise a sense of vulnerability with respect to potential hazards. This element intended to appeal to management per-sonnel as they attempt to justify the investment within their organization. |
3. Potential Hazardous Consequences |
Identify potential hazards and consequences that exist with performing work related to the safe work practice. Enable users to understand potential pitfalls and challenges so that pertinent incidents and effective practices may be better appreciated and understood |
4. Strategies & Effective Practices to Manage and Mitigate Hazards |
Provide information and details regarding effective practices developed and implemented within industry to strengthen safe work practices and minimize related issues. |
5. Possible Work Flow |
Identify key actions necessary to implement a comprehensive safe work program. Enable users to understand key actions and required roles and responsibilities to best leverage identified strategies and effective practices. |
6. Incidents |
Provide a listing of incidents that have identified root and contributing causes associated to each safe work practice. Briefly describe the incident and provide detailed insight into the safe work practice issues. |
7. Reference Materials |
Provide a listing of related materials and information sources that readers can refer to in order to gain further information and insight into intent, incidents, and effective practices. |