Process Safety Management, Systems and Leadership
Thanks to robust systems, leadership commitment, and decades of learning from past events incidents are rare. However, this rarity breeds complacency: the urgency to invest in Process Safety Management (PSM) diminishes. Challenges are worsened by high energy costs and economic constraints; borrowing and inflation.
"Rare = Safe" is a dangerous illusion. Effective PSM systems must counterbalance it. We advocate for effective leadership and gap analysis as a critical means of maintaining effective PSM, in the relative absence of hazardous industry incidents.