CULTURE TRANSFORMATION - ENCULTURATION TO ACCULTURATION

Enculturation is learning the culture you grow up in and Acculturation is learning a culture different from that in which you grew up. The situation becomes more challenging when you are doing business in a developing country having low literacy rate and high cultural & language barriers. This paper describes the cultural transformation, behavioral systems and improvement initiatives Fatima Fertilizers Limited (FFL) has successfully implemented in past 9 years to improve the safety culture dimensions and to ensure compliance with standards. This resulted in improvement of FFL safety records to world class level. It will also describe the details of implementation process and maturing steps of systems on Behavioral/Cultural aspects and elements such as Process Safety Leadership & Engagement Program, Management Safety Audit Program, Perception Surveys, Operational Discipline & Excellence, Field vigilance & Area audits Program, Line Management Responsibility, Observation Reporting, Analysis & Action Plans and Contractor Safety Management Program etc which resulted in achievement of such remarkable results. The paper also includes the Organizations' vision & future plans on sustaining and further improving process safety culture as per changing & challenging scenarios across the globe especially post COVID-19. © 2022 AIChE Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety, GCPS 2022. All rights reserved.

Leveraging Incremental Online Learning with Leaderful Practices - A Perspective on Achieving Perfect Process Safety Competency

Online learning, commonly referred to as eLearning, is uniquely primed to train and deepen individual and organizational competency more efficiently than traditional training methods. The COVID-19 pandemic created a surge in organizations adopting online learning to substitute for traditional, in-classroom training. The question now becomes how this rapid shift to online learning will continue to change the future of education and training. What impact can we expect this to have long-term on continued process safety training and how we teach the next generation of leaders? This paper examines the role and impact of eLearning on the process safety community and why it can foster a stronger generation of new process safety leaders. Our experience suggests that this shift will facilitate a new model where process safety professionals are empowered by the ability to set their own pace and learn incrementally, accelerating competency levels individually and professionally. A learning management system (LMS) case study demonstrates how incremental online learning promotes competency and leaderful development to strengthen safety culture and performance. This approach complements the Vision 20/20 (as proposed by the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) in 2011) to reach perfect process safety. © 2022 AIChE Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety, GCPS 2022. All rights reserved.

The Next Chapter in Global Compliance Auditing

The recent COVID-19 pandemic spurred evolutionary changes to how risk management programs are executed across the globe. As companies responded to the effects the virus had on their operations, they also had to continue their compliance verifications despite the inability of audit teams to visit sites for a first-hand evaluation of program status. Audit teams were driven to innovate to accomplish their mission. This metamorphosis has forever changed the process by which compliance auditing is conducted. These methodologies continue to evolve as the pandemic endures. This article will discuss the author's views of advancements in compliance auditing as a direct result of the pandemic. It will feature tools that have been developed, including planning tips, audit strategies, auditor utilization, and various concepts that audit teams can employ. The author will explain how she believes these aspects will affect the future of post-pandemic compliance auditing, particularly focusing on auditing for Process Safety Management (PSM) system requirements. © 2022 AIChE Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety, GCPS 2022. All rights reserved.

Applying Human Factors to Modify and Design Healthcare Workspaces and Processes in Response to COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to present unique challenges to healthcare organizations around the world. Members of a provincial Human Factors team supported several workspace design projects prompted by the pandemic. This article highlights some of the challenges identified in a selection of these projects. It also presents the human factors methods and recommendations that were used to improve workspace designs, processes, and patient safety in healthcare environments. © 2023 by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Keeping Process Safety Management Intact during Global Pandemic

Process Safety Management (PSM) is the backbone of any process industry and is fundamental to its businesses, plant reliability, safe operations, employee well-being and prevention of catastrophic events. In order to grow or sustain business and be responsible for its employees' health, good organizations never compromise on the foundation of PSM in their business and operational decisions. But what if a deadly disease alters the way how organizations and systems typically work? Can we quickly adapt to such unprecedented challenges? Are we able to fulfill all requirements of a process safety management system in this extraordinary scenario? The paper will cover this topic in detail and it will shed light on the encountered challenges and tested best practices in order to maintain PSM during a global pandemic. Effects of a pandemic on key important factors related to PSM will be discussed like management of change, employee motivation, process hazard analysis, job supervision, process monitoring, competency levels, training & development etc. Building on similar personal experience, the paper will also cover many interesting methods and suggestions for safety professionals and line managers to successfully adapt to the changes in this scenario while not compromising their process safety management systems. © 36th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference, CCPS 2021 - Topical Conference at the 2021 AIChE Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety.

Work-in-progress: Identifying unit operations laboratory curriculum needs

A knowledge gap exists between what is taught in the undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum and what is needed in terms of knowledge, skills, and attributes for industry. ABET has worked towards characterizing curriculum needs by specifying seven student outcomes that were developed by their more than 2,200 experts from academia, government and industry. While useful in curriculum assessment, these outcomes are broad and do not provide details about what should be incorporated into specific courses. The National Science Foundation and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers surveyed 507 individuals from industry and academia to identify more specific skills needed for graduates going into industry. In addition to process safety and process dynamic knowledge, results suggested the need for skills in communication, critical thinking, teamwork, leadership, open-ended task analysis, problem solving, and time management. These skills are often taught through the unit operations laboratory. Through the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty were forced to evaluate the learning outcomes of unit operations laboratory courses, allowing them to think more explicitly about how to address those gaps identified through the previous study. Moving forward, faculty have the opportunity to redesign the course to meet the needs of industry. Surveying unit operations laboratory stakeholders will offer a more targeted approach to making the necessary changes in course content. This includes surveying 1. Faculty on their perceptions of the key learning outcomes of the unit operations laboratory, 2. Industry on the knowledge, skills and attributes that should be taught in the laboratory, and 3. Students on what gaps exist in the chemical engineering curriculum that could be filled by the laboratory. The results of these surveys will provide information that will help balance the breadth and depth of content necessary while incorporating updates to address stakeholder needs. This work-in-progress paper will detail the development of these three surveys. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022.

Keeping Process Safety Management Intact during Global Pandemic

Process Safety Management (PSM) is the backbone of any process industry and is fundamental to its businesses,plant reliability,safe operations,employee well-being and prevention of catastrophic events. In order to grow or sustain business and be responsible for its employees health,good organizations never compromise on the foundation of PSM in their business and operational decisions. But what if a deadly disease alters the way how organizations and systems typically work? Can we quickly adapt to such unprecedented challenges? Are we able to fulfill all requirements of a process safety management system in this extraordinary scenario? The paper will cover this topic in detail and it will shed light on the encountered challenges and tested best practices in order to maintain PSM during a global pandemic. Effects of a pandemic on key important factors related to PSM will be discussed like management of change,employee motivation,process hazard analysis,job supervision,process monitoring,competency levels,training & development etc. Building on similar personal experience,the paper will also cover many interesting methods and suggestions for safety professionals and line managers to successfully adapt to the changes in this scenario while not compromising their process safety management systems. Copyright © American Institute of Chemical Engineers. All rights reserved.

Analysis of the impact of a pandemic on the control of the process safety risk in major hazards industries using a Fault Tree Analysis approach.

The control of the risks associated with major hazard events is critical to the safe and continuous operation of the process industry. Over the last decades, the process industry has been successful at establishing and implementing robust Process Safety Management (PSM) systems to prevent and mitigate the consequences of such major hazard events. While there exist some industry guidelines developed relatively recently for events initiated by natural disasters and security-related threats, for initiating events like outbreaks of pathogens and pandemics, there is currently a clear lack of understanding of the impact of the restrictions and disruption caused by a pandemic on the ability of companies operating major hazard facilities to keep controlling the risks associated to their hazardous operations. Moreover, there is no industry guideline on how to account for such an impact in PSM systems for process safety hazards. The recent COVID-19 outbreak caused serious disruptions to normal operations that have challenged industry in their ability to control risks. The objective of this paper is to perform an analysis of the impact of a pandemic situation on the implementation of selected elements of PSM systems related to the identification and evaluation of the risks of a major hazard and their control. The approach chosen involves the analysis of the root causes of the failure of the selected PSM elements using a Fault Tree Analysis method. The findings provide the first steps in the establishment of recommendations for the upgrade of PSM systems to face events such as pandemics.