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June 5, 2024
3:15PM - 4:15PM

The Importantce to Bring PSM to the "Shopfloor and the Field"

Nelson Rodriguez-Garcia, Kuraray

In my experience in the chemical industry, I have had the opportunity to investigate a number of significant process safety incidents. The typical tendency of the team is to find fault quickly in the individual performance and often declare victory of the root cause found.  Many times, we believe that we can “procedure” ourselves out of troubles and situations. While I am in favor of improving procedures and systems, some of the most recent incidents that I have experienced or have had the opportunity to be involved with have revealed a new possible strategy. The level of proficiency or our front-line members is becoming more and more critical. The new concept of productive safety emphasizes the need to understand work as done and work as expected. During investigations we are constantly trying to close that gap. We expect something from people, especially those who run our facilities. Now, how much more important than just following procedures and doing work as expected, is their understanding of PSM? Many of us reserve the PSM conversation to the classroom or the PHA room. But what if all of our colleagues working in the industry were capable of understanding PSM at a deeper level. This presentation discusses various incidents and scenarios where PSM in the front line could have “saved the day”. It is intended to look deeper into our training programs for front line workers, maintenance, and other support organizations to help mitigate some of our concerns about Process Safety. This presentation is great for Plant Leaders, Support organization leadership, Front line workers and many other functions at the Plant. 

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