
Process Safety Management and Human Factors
A Practitioner’s Experiential Approach
- 1st Edition - November 18, 2020
- Latest edition
- Editor: Waddah S. Ghanem Al Hashmi
- Language: English
Process Safety Management and Human Factors: A Practitioner's Experiential Approach addresses human factors in process safety management (PSM) from a reflective learning approa… Read more

- Covers the evolution and background of process safety management
- Shows how to integrate and augment process safety management with operational excellence and health, safety and environment management systems
- Focuses on human factors in process safety management
- Includes many real-life case studies from the collective experience of the book's authors
Plant and Operational Managers; Senior PSM experts; HSE and Safety Engineers; HSE Managers; Industrial/Occupational Ergonomists/Hygienists; Industrial/Occupational Physiologists working in the field of Safety and Organisational Safety Culture Development; Technical, Asset Integrity and Process Optimization Specialists and Managers. Human Factors Practitioners
1. Introduction to process safety management in a practical context
1.1 Prelude 
1.2 Introduction
1.3 The rise of process safety management 
1.4 Process safety management and human factors 
References 
2. Introduction to human factors and the human element
2.1 Introduction 
2.2 Terminology and scope 
2.3 Why and how human factors are important 
2.4 Managing human failures 
2.5 Safety critical tasks 
2.6 Human factors in design 
2.7 Conclusions 
References 
3. Leadership and process safety management 
3.1 Introduction 
3.2 Process safety elements: leadership 
3.3 Understanding the leadership challenges 
3.4 Process safety leadership: a model 
3.5 Monitoring and managing process safety management performance 
3.6 Way forward and chapter concluding remarks 
Further reading 
4. The awareness of risk, complacency, and the normalization of deviance
4.1 Introduction 
4.2 Toward understanding deviation 
4.3 What does complacency mean for process safety? 
4.4 Complacency and the normalization of deviance 
4.5 The elements of Situational Complacency 
4.6 David’s story 
4.7 Conclusions 
4.8 Final thoughts 
References 
5. Competence assurance and organizational learning
5.1 Introduction 
5.2 Assuring human performance 
5.3 Competence and human performance 
5.4 Wider organizational learning 
5.5 Concluding remarks 
References 
6. Integration of human factors in hazard identification and risk assessment
6.1 Introduction 
6.2 Human factors engineering in design and operational phases 
6.3 Task design 
6.4 Procedures 
6.5 Human resources 
6.6 Physical exposures 
6.7 Fitness for duty 
6.8 Incident investigation 
6.9 Safety culture 
6.10 Conclusions 
Further Reading 
7. Inherent safety impact in complying process safety regulations and reducing human error
7.1 Introduction 
7.2 The causes of accidents in chemical process industries 
7.3 Inherently safer design in process safety management 
7.4 Reduction of human error through inherent safety 
7.5 Case study 
7.6 Conclusion 
References 
8. Asset and mechanical integrity management
8.1 Preamble 
8.2 Process safety model 
8.3 People_process_technology alignment to achieve process safety excellence 
8.4 Asset integrity management 
8.5 Industry case studies 
8.6 Human factors 
8.7 Way forward and chapter concluding remarks 
References 
9. Management of change
9.1 Introduction 
9.2 The cases for change 
9.3 Scope of a management of change 
9.4 Change versus "replacement-in-kind" 
9.5 Management of change review process 
9.6 Management of change closure 
9.7 Management of organizational change 
9.8 "Minor" change 
9.9 Concluding thoughts: modern trends in risk tolerance 
References 
10. Management of risk through safe work practices
10.1 Introduction 
10.2 Human factors in risk management 
10.3 Behavioral safety 
10.4 Human performance gaps 
10.5 Risk management through safe work practices: safe system of work, operating procedures, and safe work practices 
10.6 Overview: establishing an effective safe system of work 
10.7 Developing an internal document management system and document
framework 
10.8 Safety programs 
10.9 Summary 
References 
11. Process safety information, hazard control, and communication
11.1 Introduction 
11.2 Process safety information element 
11.3 Implementation framework for process safety information 
11.4 Human errors applicable to process safety information 
11.5 Concluding remarks 
Acknowledgment 
References 
12. Prestart-up and shutdown safety reviews
12.1 Introduction 
12.2 Why is a prestart-up safety review required? 
12.3 Prestart-up safety review considerations 
12.4 Key roles and responsibilities in prestart-up safety reviews 
12.5 Prestart-up safety review team 
12.6 Prestart-up safety review team composition 
12.7 Prestart-up safety review team leader 
12.8 Process safety management assessments 
12.9 Implementing a prestart-up safety review 
12.10 Generating and approval of the prestart-up safety review plan 
12.11 Executing the prestart-up safety review 
12.12 Field and physical inspections 
12.13 Approval of the prestart-up safety review report and corrective actions 
12.14 Corrective action management 
12.15 Prestart-up safety review completion and closure 
12.16 Conclusion 
Appendix 1 
Reference 
13. Contractor management
13.1 Introduction 
13.2 Overview of contract life cycle 
13.3 Reasons for contracting work 
13.4 Developing the scope of work 
13.5 Internal/external prequalification 
13.6 Site visit verification 
13.7 References checks 
13.8 Selection of contractors: criteria and weighting and contractor selection criteria 
13.9 Stakeholder weighting assignments 
13.10 Health, safety, and environment evaluation 
13.11 Veto rights 
13.12 Commercial assessment 
13.13 Risk ranking of contractors 
13.14 Contract execution 
13.15 Contract/project kick-off 
13.16 Contractor premobilization 
13.17 HSE Alignment Workshops 
13.18 Site-specific training implemented 
13.19 Contractor mobilized 
13.20 Contractor performance management 
13.21 HSE audit: 30 days’ postmobilization 
13.22 Leadership visibility 
13.23 Listening moments 
13.24 Contractor audits 
13.25 Corrective action management 
13.26 Contractor relationship management 
13.27 Contract closeout 
References 
14. Emergency response management and control
14.1 Introduction 
14.2 Why have emergency response plan 
14.3 Scope of the Incident Management System or emergency response plan 
14.4 Integrated "all-hazards" approach 
14.5 Organizational principles of all-hazards approach 
14.6 Emergency response priorities 
14.7 Emergency management principles 
14.8 Objectives-driven response 
14.9 Incident action plans 
14.10 Common and consistent terminology 
14.11 Manageable span of control 
14.12 Organizational response structure 
14.13 Scalable response 
14.14 Response triggers 
14.15 Managing incident response through the utilization of the planning cycle 
14.16 Business continuity 
14.17 Plan linkage 
14.18 Application of the Incident Management System in varying response frameworks 
14.19 Single command 
14.20 Coordinated command 
14.21 Coordinated command structure 
14.22 Expectations and assumptions for the effective operation of the ERP or IMS 
14.23 Human factors in emergency response planning 
14.24 Concluding remarks 
Further reading 
15. Human performance within process safety management compliance assurance
15.1 Introduction 
15.2 Sociotechnical systems and human failure 
15.3 Gaps within process safety management assurance 
15.4 How to assure human performance 
15.5 Concluding remarks 
References 
16. Regulating PSM and the impact of effectiveness
16.1 Introduction 
16.2 Purpose of regulations 
16.3 Prescriptive and performance-based regulations 
16.4 Impact of effectiveness of PSM regulations 
16.5 Challenges of having too many regulators 
16.6 Chapter concluding remarks 
References 
17. Readying the organization for change: communication and alignment
17.1 Introduction 
17.2 Key elements of organizational readiness and alignment 
17.3 Creating a shared PSM vision 
17.4 Sharing the vision 
17.5 Aligning the organization—organizational change management 
17.6 Conducting the stakeholder impact assessment 
17.7 Managing organizational change 
17.8 Communication methodologies 
17.9 Seven best practices in organizational change management 
17.10 Summary 
References 
18. Do we really learn from loss incidents?
18.1 Introduction 
18.2 Barriers to learning 
18.3 How to learn more effectively from external incidents 
18.4 How to make effective recommendations 
18.5 Concluding remarks: lessons from history 
Acknowledgement 
References 
Further readings 
19. Gauging the effectiveness of implementation and measuring the performance of PSM activities
19.1 Introduction 
19.2 PSM assurance 
19.3 Design of PSM 
19.4 Supervision of PSM 
19.5 Verification of PSM 
19.6 Metrics for PSM 
19.7 Audits of PSM 
19.8 Verification workshops 
19.9 Validation 
19.10 Management review meetings 
19.11 Operational intelligence 
19.12 Closing thoughts 
References 
20. Human errors, organization culture, and leadership
20.1 Introduction 
20.2 Human error and organizational culture 
20.3 The human paradoxes leading to incidents 
20.4 Closing thoughts 
Epilogue 
Appendix 1: Sample PSSR checklist and report 
Appendix 2: Reference list and international standards and codes
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- Published: November 18, 2020
- Language: English
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