Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Lessons Learned
WHO WE ARE
30+ 40+
ABS Group provides a range of technical solutions to support safe,
reliable and high performance assets and operations. ABS Group is an
affiliated company of ABS, a leading classification society with over 150
1500+
Employees Countries Years
years of service.
HOW WE SUPPORT OUR CLIENTS
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Introduction
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Where does Safety Culture sit?
Loss of Containment
Accident
Fatalities / Injuries / Pollution
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How do we Improve PSM Performance?
Near Miss
Process Control
2) Implement Robust Safety Issues Leading PSPIs and
Management and Assurance Audits to correct
Systems Management System same level issues
Issues
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Cultural Essential Features (CCPS/ABS Group Model)
Establish safety as a core Units restart before the Pre Start-Up Safety Reviews (PSSRs) are fully signed off.
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value Awards and praise for high production, but none for safe behaviour.
When the CEO comes on-site, discussions are only with the site leadership team.
2 Provide strong leadership
Managers don’t perform weekly safety visits, or reinforce safety messages
No "chronic unease".
Maintain a sense of Individuals cannot answer “what is the worst case scenario for your area?” and what
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vulnerability would be the consequences? “We’ve done it this way for 30 years and nothing has
happened”.
Empower individuals to No-one on the leadership teams (board/senior management team/site leadership team)
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safety responsibilities No-one has hit the “big red button” in the last three years.
Reported safety issues just added to an ever-growing list and disappear in to a black hole.
Provide timely responses to
11 Slow progress on resolving safety actions from RCAs after safety incidents.
safety issues and concerns
Status of progress on safety actions from RCAs not shared with all.
Provide continuous
Process Safety KPIs not collected and shared with all on site.
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No structured management review of (process) safety performance
performance 10
Traditional Survey
Results
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Linking Culture with Performance
Accident
Emergency Response
Inadequate monitoring or auditing
Protection Systems
Trip Systems
Threat
Top Consequence
• Inadequate training Event
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Cross correlating Culture Survey data with PSPIs
Increasing
Significance
PSPIs
Performance to be measured by
the following PSPIs:
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Case Study – Group of Facilities
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Focused Cultural “Fixes”
3) Effectiveness of Cultural
Change programmes can
be monitored.
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Hierarchy of Cultural Issues
Level 1 Performance Action Issue
Continuous Improvement and Responsiveness to Concerns
Monitoring Issue Issue
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Application of Cultural Cause Analysis™
An intermediate cause-
resolved in timely
manner
Procedure Issue C15
Ineffective
Support for programs management
and objectives issue demonstration of
commitment
C63 C64
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Summary
If the right PSPIs are measured at each level of the Process Safety Triangle
then performance issues can be associated with specific cultural features
and then treated
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