Abstract
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), an independent, non-regulatory federal agency that investigates the root causes of major chemical incidents, has firstly analyzed safety culture as an important element to maintain process safety in the investigation report of “BP America Refinery Explosion” in 2007. On the same year, the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) published Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) in which process safety culture was newly added as an element. The author found six CSB reports which analyzed the weaknesses of safety culture and related them to the essential features of process safety culture in RBPS. Discussions are made on the results of the relations.
Highlights
The U.S Chemical Safety Board (CSB), an independent, non-regulatory federal agency that investigates the root causes of major chemical incidents, has already issued more than one hundred investigation reports since 1998
The author attempted to relate the weaknesses found in CSB reports to the weaknesses in the essential features of process safety culture in Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) so that the ways to improve effectiveness can be utilized
CSB reports containing analysis of safety culture are listed with brief summary of the accidents and the key principles and the essential features of process safety culture in RBPS are introduced
Summary
The U.S Chemical Safety Board (CSB), an independent, non-regulatory federal agency that investigates the root causes of major chemical incidents, has already issued more than one hundred investigation reports since 1998. The author attempted to relate the weaknesses found in CSB reports to the weaknesses in the essential features of process safety culture in RBPS so that the ways to improve effectiveness can be utilized. CSB reports containing analysis of safety culture are listed with brief summary of the accidents and the key principles and the essential features of process safety culture in RBPS are introduced.
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