A journey to excellence in process safety management

Often incidents are linked to internal organizational issues; but the journey to excellence in process safety starts with external influences as well as commitment from the highest levels of leadership from within the company. Starting from the importance of appropriate regulations, and how they should be developed, this paper discusses what individual organizations can do in terms of setting and enforcing strict operational discipline, ensuring competency of all personnel, and learning and implementing the learnings from past incidents for pushing forward on process safety performance.