Assurance

Lead Process Safety Metrics: Selecting, Tracking and Learning, 2015

The ISC has released its first guidance on lead process safety metrics. This document defines a list of agreed and defined lead process safety metrics.

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Lead Process Safety Metrics: Supplementary Guide - Pressure Relief Device (PRD) - Design and Operational Performance Requirements

This supplement document is the first in a series of guidance documents that will focus on providing more clarity on the type of failures/events to be included in your company's metrics and will also aid in the goal of capturing similar data across companies and across industries. This will allow for benchmarking and identification of good practice.

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Lead Process Safety Metrics: Supplementary Guide - Permit to Work

This document is a supplement to the ISC Guidance Document Lead Process Safety Metrics – selecting tracking and learning 2015. This is intended to provide context for the Lead Metric ‘Permit to work checks performed to plan’ and ‘Permit to work on conformance’ and expand on those metrics. This guidance should be used to help identify suitable performance metrics for your system. This is the second in a series of guidance documents that will focus on providing more clarity on the type of failures/events to be included in your metrics and will also aid in the goal of capturing similar data across companies and across industries. This will allow for benchmarking and identification of good practice for us to learn from.

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Lead Process Safety Metrics: Supplementary Guide - Alarm Rationalisation

This document is a supplement to the ISC Guidance Document Lead Process Safety Metrics - selecting tracking and learning 2015. This guidance is used to provide context for alarm rationalisation which can be used for monitoring and managing the lead metric 'critical alarms per operator hour' and 'standing alarm' defined in the ISC guidance document under the human factor element. This supplementary guidance document should be used to improve the understanding of various alarms, handling, monitoring, and meeting the target performance of the alarm management system. The document focuses on providing more clarity on the aspects and challenges in maintaining the alarm management system. This will allow for benchmarking and identification of good practice.

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Lead Process Safety Metrics: Supplementary Guide - Risk Based Audit Programme

This document is a supplement to the ISC guidance document Lead Process Safety Metrics – selecting tracking and learning, 2015. This guidance note is intended to provide context for the lead metric ‘number of process safety related audits to plan’ and ‘number of non-conformances found in process safety audits’ under the element of assurance and expand on those metrics. This should be used to help identify and establish suitable performance metrics for your system. It is intended to complement existing publications on the areas of metrics and auditing by, for the first time, providing guidance to enable a company to measure the effectiveness of its audit programme. This document is not intended to repeat the basics of how to set up metrics or auditing systems. This is the fourth in a series of supplementary guidance documents that will focus on providing more clarity on the type of failures/events to be included in your metrics and will also aid in the goal of capturing similar data across companies and across industries.

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