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CEP: Process Safety Beacon - How Do You Measure Process Safety Performance?

Process Safety Beacon

April

2014

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The March 2014 Beacon discussed the relationship between process safety and occupational safety, as well as the importance of both in ensuring a safe workplace. For many years, industry has used established measures of occupational safety performance, such as occupational injury and illness (OII) rate, to monitor the effectiveness of safety management systems. However, these statistics are not good measures of process safety performance.

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