MOC: A Risk Reduction Tool for Every SH&E Toolkit

摘要

Management of Change (MOC) is the universally adaptable analysis process that emerged from OSHA's Process Safety Management standard (29 CFR 1910.119 in 1992) and EPA's Risk Management Program (40 CFR 68.75 in 1994). MOC is a proactive process for reducing the risk of an incident associated with changes to machinery, equipment, processes and other activities. Under an MOC structure, any changes made to a process-whether it is a new product/process or a not-in-kind replacement or upgrade to existing equipment and/or process-must undergo multistage reviews. What results is a systematic, comprehensive review that is designed to reduce or eliminate opportunities for failures such as permit misses, bad design installation, incomplete/inadequate rollout of the change, or equipment failure up to and including loss of property or life.