Process safety
A green dashboard can hide a red risk

Zero injuries does not mean zero major accident risk.
A site can report excellent personal safety results while accumulating overdue tests, containment leaks and forgotten temporary changes. Process Safety Management connects process knowledge, people, equipment and decisions throughout the lifecycle. Management reviews need to examine whether credible major accident scenarios remain controlled, including during shutdowns and reduced staffing. A favourable average cannot provide that assurance on its own.
Bring one credible scenario and the actual condition of its barriers into the review.
What process risk information is missing from your dashboard?
An indicator is useful when its connection to a control, its data owner and the question it raises in review are clear. A favourable measure may coexist with missing information. Discussion should therefore cover data quality and follow-up of weak signals as well as the numerical trend over time.


