The Fundamentals of Process Safety Management

This week’s Safety Moment describes the basics of Process Safety Management (PSM) at https://iansutton.com/topics/process-safety-management.

The article describes:

• How PSM programs developed in the late 1980s in response to a number of catastrophic events that occurred at that time.
• The successful decision to make PSM non-prescriptive and performance-based.
• The fact that PSM is about process safety — and why that is such a challenge.

The article then discusses the three words that make up the phrase ‘Process Safety Management’, i.e., ‘Process’, ‘Safety’ and ‘Management’.