Owning the Process Safety Moment: Real-Time Risk Management and Response

摘要

During operations, critical events occur where action must be taken or a decision made that can influence an event outcome. Owning these decisive moments involve actively reducing risk exposure, avoiding potential events and quickly minimizing the impact of a realized event. Process safety analysis documents such decisive safety moments using models such as “bowtie” diagrams. The oil and gas industry is taking positive steps to analyze the critical safety processes, develop the associated bow-tie frameworks and adopt a multi-barrier policy. The steps are in the right direction, but stop short of providing the measurable assurance that delivers true ownership of safety moments. Bow-tie models articulate the “what” of process safety management. Owning the decisive safety moment involves taking the paper-based processes and barriers and bringing them to life in a real-time managed environment. Therefore, processes and barrers must be tracked and controlled using a real-time management environment. This paper presents how to transform paper-based risk management tools into a real-time environment to increase performance, lower risks, and reduce incidents.