Useful links
Health and Safety Executive (HSE), UK
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the body responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare, and for research into occupational risks in Great Britain.
IChemE Safety and Loss Prevention Special Interest Group
The Safety and Loss Prevention Special Interest Group provides a network for all those interested in safety within the process industries. Process safety transcends disciplinary boundaries and concerns a wide range of professionals including chemical, mechanical and electrical engineers, pure scientists and even accountants.
Ministry of Manpower, Singapore
The Ministry of Manpower is a ministry of the Government of Singapore which is responsible for the formulation and implementation of labour policies related to the workforce in Singapore.
Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Malaysia
The Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Ministry of Human Resources is a government agency responsible for administering, managing and enforcing legislation related to occupational safety and health (OSH) in Malaysia with the vision to cultivate OSH culture in every workplace and to make every job and task safe and healthy for the worker.
WorkSafe, New Zealand
WorkSafe New Zealand (WorkSafe) is the work health and safety regulator. The focus is to embed and promote good workplace health and safety.
WorkSafe Victoria, Australia
WorkSafe Victoria is the workplace health and safety and workers and is a statutory authority of the state government of Victoria, Australia.
WorkSafe NSW, Australia
WorkSafe NSW (WorkCover) is the New South Wales’ workplace health and safety regulator and offers advice on improving work Health and Safety; provide licences and registration for potentially dangers work and investigate workplace incidents and enforce work health and safety laws in NSW.
WorkSafe Tasmania, Australia
WorkSafe Tasmania is work health and safety regulator for Tasmania. They focus on improving workplace safety, health and return to work.
SafeWork SA, Australia
SafeWork SA is the workplace health and safety regulator for South Australia. Their mission is to provide work health and safety, public safety and state-based industrial relations services across South Australia.
NT WorkSafe, Australia
NT WorkSafe is a division under the Department of Attorney-General and Justice responsible for assisting businesses and workers understand their obligations under work health and safety, dangerous goods, electrical safety, and rehabilitation and workers compensation in the Northern Territory.
Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP), Australia
The Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) is responsible for ensuring the State of Western Australia’s resources sector is developed and managed responsibility and sustainably. They are the State’s regulator for extractive industries and dangerous goods.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a forum to promote policies that will improve the economic and social wellbeing of people around the world and in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems.
Fire and Blast Information Group (FABIG)
FABIG is a non-profit, cross-industry membership based organisation committed to the dissemination of knowledge and best practice and the development of guidance on the prevention and mitigation of fires and explosions and on the protection of facilities and personal against fires and explosions.
US Chemical Safety Board (CSB), USA
The CSB is an independent federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents. It conducts root cause investigations of chemical accidents at fixed industrial facilities.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), USA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is an agency of the United States Department of Labor. Its mission is to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance.
Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), UK
IOSH is the Chartered body for health and safety professionals. It is a non-for-profit organisation. They set professional standards; provide advice and guidance on health and safety issues through their publications.
Energy Institute (EI), UK
The Energy Institute (EI) is the chartered professional membership body bringing global energy expertise together. Its ambition is that energy, and its critical role in the world, is better understood, managed and valued.
The Energy Institute have developed a useful Toolbox which is free to use. It holds incident lessons and safety information shared by global energy companies for you to use at work every day, helping you and your team to get home safe. Developed by the Energy Institute (EI), Toolbox quickly connects you and other users around the world to health and safety insights from leading energy companies partnered with the EI, including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Global Offshore Wind Health and Safety Organisation (G+), Lloyds Register Foundation, Phillips 66, Repsol, Shell and TotalEnergies.
XBP Refining, UK
The lessons learned bulletins developed by XBP Refining Consulting covers incidents ranging from process safety to process reliability. The bulletins are free to download from the document library.
Loss Prevention Bulletin
The Loss Prevention Bulletin (LPB) was first published in 1974 in response to the explosion at Flixborough, the LPB provides a way for the process industries to share information of accidents with the intention that other organisations could learn the same process safety lessons without repeating the same mistake. Subscription to LPB will give you access to this excellent source of reference material.
Lessons Learned Database
The Lessons Learned Database (LLD) is to raise awareness of major incidents in the process industries, promote the importance of root cause analysis and to catalyse cross-sector sharing of lessons learned and good practices.