Safety is everyone’s responsibility

Good process safety management relies on accurate knowledge of the potential hazards, so that appropriate safeguards can be implemented to mitigate those hazards. Processes must also be regularly reassessed, to ensure new hazards can be properly mitigated. But perhaps the most important (and often underestimated) aspect is monitoring and education, to ensure that those safeguards are actually working – safety procedures are only effective if they are used and followed. And having measures in place that can alert operators ahead of potential hazards is much more important in terms of prevention than being able to rationalise what went wrong after an incident.