Many companies are striving to find new ways to prevent process safety incidents and invest a lot of time and money to develop new technics and initiatives with the aim to improve their process safety management effectiveness. However, they pass by the effective use of an essential and powerful element. Process safety measurement and metrics or KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) as commonly called is an element of the fourth foundational block “Learn from experience” upon which is constructed the risk-based process safety management system.
As stated by Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” Metrics are essential to measuring where improvements are achieved and where more improvements need to be undertaken. However, improvements will not occur simply from developing nice and colorful dashboards or filling plenty of excel sheets. How can this element lead to breakthroughs in performance, resulting in much lower rates of significant process safety incidents? How it can contribute to the success of each process safety team?

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Over the last years, the engineering design of complex technological systems has significantly improved. The human factor has therefore remained a significant factor in overall risk and there is a growing need for tools to better address the human factor especially in major hazard industries such as the nuclear and oil and gas sectors. Human Reliability Assessment is an assortment of methods and models that are used to predict the occurrence of ‘human errors’ which are increasingly being used on its own both as a way to assess the risks from ‘human error’ and as a way to reduce system vulnerability. This session will be dedicated to present and compare the most relevant available HRA techniques and opening up prospects to think about how they could be developed in the future.

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