Best Practice Management of Change PSSR Process

摘要

Management of Change (MOC) and Pre Start-up Safety Review (PSSR) are still the mostchallenging elements of OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard, the EPA'sRisk Management Program (RMP) rule, and now, the US Department of Interior'sBureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement's Safety and EnvironmentalManagement Systems (SEMS). Even though the PSM standard has been around since1992 and the industry has been managing change for several decades, we still can get itwrong, sometimes with disastrous results. The mindful or diligent efforts of manyworking in concert are necessary to ensure that change is identified, analyzed andexecuted in a quality way. Just when we get it right on paper and get the workforce upto-speed, we have employee turnover, neglect and sometimes regulatory change. Newactors and a constantly changing script make it hard to manage change efficiently andeffectively. This paper discusses how the chemical process industry has defined theMOC and PSSR best management practices and how they should be automated.Management of Change (MOC) and Pre Start-up Safety Review (PSSR) are still the mostchallenging elements of OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard, the EPA'sRisk Management Program (RMP) rule, and now, the US Department of Interior'sBureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement's Safety and EnvironmentalManagement Systems (SEMS). Even though the PSM standard has been around since1992 and the industry has been managing change for several decades, we still can get itwrong, sometimes with disastrous results. The mindful or diligent efforts of manyworking in concert are necessary to ensure that change is identified, analyzed andexecuted in a quality way. Just when we get it right on paper and get the workforce upto-speed, we have employee turnover, neglect and sometimes regulatory change. Newactors and a constantly changing script make it hard to manage change efficiently andeffectively.Many high-profile companies have addressed this challenge by creating and automatingstandard processes across their manufacturing or production facilities. MOC and PSSRare two of these major processes that have been successfully automated. Technology hasbeen used to automate each step of the MOC workflow, enabling the collection of change