Investigation of Process Safety Incidents Implementing Effective Corrective Preventive Actions

摘要

This paper sets out the author's recent experiences with offshore oil and gas exploration and production companies to improve theidentification and investigation of Process Safety Incidents, PSIs. The paper will describe the difficulties that companiesexperience when dealing with relatively simple issues, such as agreeing what a PSI is and how to link the underlying and rootcauses of incidents to weaknesses in the process safety risk controls. The paper will also demonstrate that the actions identifiedafter an investigation do not always correct the causation factors - examples will be provided to illustrate common pitfalls inselecting effective actions after a PSI. The prevention of process safety has significant business benefits and several industryinitiatives currently in place or proposed will be presented.