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HSE management system
Developing a Health, Safety and
Environment (HSE) management
system.
Cost pressures are driving organisations to become
HSE policy even leaner and more efficient. Ever-present
regulatory pressures, the growing trend toward self-
Management certification, and emerging international standards
Review
standards HSE management systems are also necessitating
organisational change.
An international oil refinery based in South Korea
ABB HSE
underwent an insurance assessment, one finding
management
Letter of Good practice was that their arrangements for safety management
system
assurance guidance needed to be reviewed. Our reputation led the client
to contact ABB for help.
The key challenge was to get buy-in from the whole
of the refinery team. ABB helped to guide senior
System
Auditing management through the development and
procedures
implementation of their improved health, safety and
environmental management procedures.
Solution Teams gathered information from across the range
ABB’s expertise in helping clients to adapt and of operating and support departments throughout
develop their own HSE management systems are the refinery, including identifying existing
recognised by both national regulatory bodies and procedures. If any were equivalent, they were
operating organisations. Our HSE management compared and contrasted with ABB’s relevant model
system framework is based on the ‘virtuous circle’ procedures.
shown overleaf. The HSE policy of senior
management is cascaded through the organisation Armed with this information, the team initiated
by management standards, guides and local discussions involving the relevant managers, to
instructions. The operating unit responds by agree where improvements could be made. Where
auditing compliance which provides the basis for no equivalent procedures existed, the teams
their letter of assurance back to senior developed new procedures, and then introduced
management. them to the management and the operating staff.
The approach taken for this project was to focus on The inevitable debate and counter proposals about
three key factors in managing health, safety and each procedure was itself a vehicle for adjusting
environmental risks: attitudes to safety. In the final phase, our client
trained all refinery staff in those procedures
-- Clear leadership from senior management relevant to them.
-- A systematic and structured HSE framework
-- Practical customised local implementation of Benefits
appropriate systems and procedures -- Safety compliance
• ABB ensured the client met all the criteria for full
Leadership compliance required by their insurers
Commitment from the top was vital in encouraging -- Effective management
active participation by all staff in the subsequent • The client implemented a HSE management
customisation process. To begin to generate this system which is appropriate for his business
commitment the team coached the refinery’s senior -- Raising awareness
management in the underlying concepts of ABB’s • We also helped to raise client awareness of
HSE management system. health, safety and environmental issues;
minimising the potential for incidents
The HSE management framework
ABB HSE management framework is supported by a
range of model procedures which can be tailored to
meet specific client needs / standards. To ensure
that the framework best meets client’s needs the
process is customised for each client. This process
was adopted with our client as described below:
Customising process
Two small teams of technical staff were allocated
from different departments to prepare and
recommend new drafts based on ABB’s model
procedures and guidance. This began with
allocating responsibilities for the studying of each
procedure to the teams, and to prioritise the order
in which they would be addressed. Next, the teams
translated each of the procedures into their native
language.
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