The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) publishes a Process Safety Beacon every month. The following is an overview of the Beacons provided by the CCPS.
The Process Safety Beacon is a resource aimed at delivering process safety messages to plant operators and other manufacturing personnel. The monthly one-page newsletter covers the breadth of process safety topics.
The Beacons generally provide a description of an actual incident, an analysis of that incident, and a list of lessons learned. We supplement these analyses with our own interpretation, suing the 20 elements of process safety provided by the CCPS:
- Process Safety Culture
- Compliance
- Competence
- Workforce Involvement
- Stakeholder Outreach
- Knowledge Management
- Hazard Identification and Risk Management
- Operating Procedures
- Safe Work Practices
- Asset Integrity / Reliability
- Contractor Management
- Training / Performance
- Management of Change
- Operational Readiness
- Conduct of Operations
- Emergency Management
- Incident Investigation
- Measurement and Metrics
- Auditing
- Management Review
The Table provides an index for the Beacons. The first column shows the date; the second column the title of the Beacon with a matching link; the third column the relevant substack analysis (also with a matching link); the fourth column shows the PSM element that was strongly relevant to this particular Beacon.
