An essential guide that offers an understanding of and the practices
needed to assess and strengthen process safety culture
Essential Practices for Developing, Strengthening and Implementing
Process Safety Culture presents a much-needed guide for understanding
an organization's working culture and contains information on why a good
culture is essential for safe, cost-effective, and high-quality
operations. The text defines process safety culture and offers
information on a safety culture's history, organizational impact and
benefits, and the role that leadership plays at all levels of an
organization. In addition, the book outlines the core principles needed
to assess and strengthen process safety culture such as: maintain a
sense of vulnerability; combat normalization of deviance; establish an
imperative for safety; perform valid, timely, hazard and risk
assessments; ensure open and frank communications; learn and advance the
culture.
This important guide also reviews leadership standards within the
organizational structure, warning signs of cultural degradation and
remedies, as well as the importance of using diverse methods over time
to assess culture. This vital resource:
- Provides an overview for understanding an organization's working
culture
- Offers guidance on why a good culture is essential for safe,
cost-effective, and high quality operations
- Includes down-to-earth advice for recognizing, assessing,
strengthening and sustaining a good process safety culture
- Contains illustrative examples and cases studies, and references to
literature, codes, and standards
Written for corporate, business and line managers, engineers, and
process safety professionals interested in excellent performance for
their organization, Essential Practices for Developing, Strengthening
and Implementing Process Safety Culture is the go-to reference for
implementing and keeping in place a culture of safety.
