Best Practices in Safety Management

Introduction:

The development of integrated health, safety, and environmental management systems within business processes marks a significant evolution in safety across various sectors. Instead of adhering to rigid, prescriptive standards, organizations have adopted a structured risk management approach supported by systematic risk assessments.

This Best Practices in Safety Management course equips participants with practical experience in implementing advanced safety management techniques and principles across industries. The course covers reactive, active, and proactive performance measures, establishing measurable benchmarks based on industry standards.

Discover how this course will enhance your professional skills and make a significant impact on health and safety in any organization.

Objectives:

At the end of this Best Practices in Safety Management course, participants will be able to:

• Recognize safety practices and codes of practice developed by major industrial organizations, including Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) regulatory guidelines for land-based installations.
• Understand the key elements of safety cases for the construction and operation of fixed and mobile offshore facilities.
• Grasp the importance of incident root-cause analysis and how tools like safety culture assessments can enhance safety, based on best practices from leading organizations.
• Conduct task-based risk assessments, focusing on human error and management system failures.
• Apply best practices from Project Health, Safety, and Environmental Reviews (PHSER) by integrating them with the Capital Value Process (CVP) and the company's HSE system.
• Develop skills in setting, planning, executing, and reviewing safety performance management.

Training Methodology:

• Interactive lectures
• Group discussions
• Case studies
• Business role-playing
• Safety audits and experiments
• Accident analysis workshops
• Peer reviews

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Major Hazards Control Best Practice

• Emergency planning and the COMAH control framework.
• COMAH elements and safety case fundamentals.
• The context and importance of a safety case.
• Relevance of Quantified Risk Assessment (QRA) to COMAH and safety cases.
• HSE management systems and major risks.
• Threat and scenario management: risks and emergency situations.

Unit 2: Root Cause Analysis Best Practice

• Contributions of human factors to incidents.
• Understanding active errors, preconditions, and latent failures.
• Primary and advanced methods of incident investigation.
• Cause trees, sequence of events, and causal factor analysis.
• Linking root causes to proposed solutions.
• Practical exercises and teamwork.

Unit 3: Risk Assessment Practicum

• Defining risk assessment and identifying its limitations.
• Evaluating risk assessment effectiveness.
• Risk assessors and their role in task-based risk assessment.
• Implementing task-based risk assessments with work permits.
• Planning and resource allocation, followed by performance measurement.

Unit 4: Human Error Causation and Job Safety Analysis

• Understanding human error and accident causation.
• Human error types and prevention methods.
• Task analysis and job safety analysis techniques.
• Promoting safety culture through management systems methodologies.
• Enhancing safety culture and the HSE management system.

Unit 5: Best Practices for HSE Reviews on Projects

• Steps involved in project HSE planning.
• The latest BOPH procedures and PHSER within the Capital Value Process.
• Integrating PHSER into the organizational HSE management system.
• Terms of reference, protocol, and documentation for PHSER.
• Reporting and procedures for PHSER compliance.