(173a) Process Safety Management:  It's Not Just for Chemcal Plants!

Presented By

Richard W. Sarnie, CSP, P.E., ARM-E

Director, CCPS Projects

Center for Chemical Process Safety

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

In this presentation Mr. Sarnie will discuss lessons learned and relearned over decades in manufacturing and cold storage facilities on preventing and mitigating process safety incidents (LOSS OF CONTAINMENT EVENTS) and how these lessons learned can and should be applied across many types of manufacturing and cold storage operations such as the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industry. He will:

• Present a rationale as to why a risk-based rather than regulatory-based approach to managing process safety and other risk exposures is prudent
• Discuss the continuing movement by many organizations to more formal and comprehensive enterprise risk management systems
• A review of the typical steps or phases an organization usually takes in developing and improving management system processes
• Provide an overview of chemical industry best practices for managing process safety (with a focus on AIChE CCPS recommendations as described in the CCPS Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety and many other CCPS books)

• Describe numerous process safety management system deficiencies (root causes) associated with serious chemical process safety incidents that have repeatedly occurred during the last 50+ years
• Discuss how proven process safety management practices and use of multiple layers of protection can help better manage risks in manufacturing and cold storage facilities.