(100b) Management System Relevance in Achieving Desired Process Safety Performance

Management System Relevance in Achieving
Desired Process Safety Performance

John T. Remy

Consulting Process Safety Engineer

LyondellBasell Industries

Channelview, TX 
77530

(281)  862-5046

john.remy@lyondellbasell.com

ABSTRACT

Although a company's Process Hazard
Analysis (PHA) program is often viewed as the primary means of driving process
safety performance, in reality a broad range of management systems must be in
place and effective in order to achieve sustainable success.  This presentation will document how
LyondellBasell utilized historical process safety incident data to identify those
management systems that have been most leveraging to process safety
performance, to define opportunities for management system improvements, and to
determine if there were activities or practices which impacted process safety,
but for which no corporate management system requirements were defined.  For those management systems identified as
most leveraging to historical process safety performance, a focused examination
utilizing subject matter experts was conducted to understand the factors
leading to non-ideal compliance with requirements or expectations.  Additionally, year-by-year trend analysis was
utilized to assess if company initiatives designed to improve specific aspects
of process safety performance were effective.  
Lastly, site-specific data analysis was performed to highlight areas of
success and to focus future improvement efforts.     

This paper will outline the approach
utilized for the study and share high-level results.