ISC Produces Inaugural Guidance Works

Major hazard industries will benefit from new process safety competencies and lead metric guidelines that represent current thinking and industry best practices. The guidelines are the inaugural works produced by the Institution of Chemical Engineers Safety Centre (ISC). Guidance publications, "Process Safety Competency – a Model 2015" and "Lead Process Safety metrics – selecting, tracking and learning 2015," were written by ISC member companies offering practical and useful workplace guidance.

The process safety competency guidance expands on the established work of others. However, existing documents have tended to be generic and stop short of actually defining different levels of competency for different roles within an organization. The lead process safety metrics guidance focuses on the operational phase of an organization. It will help to develop consistency in lead process safety metrics that will allow for effective benchmarking.

ISC director, Trish Kerin, says these first edition documents are the result of 12 months of work by a wide range of industry members. She adds that these are living documents that are expected to evolve over time and be updated in the future. Further guidance documents are expected to be published in the future once a need is identified by ISC members.

“We invite organizations who have an established sound process safety competency system and metrics, to please share your example to help us improve this guidance for everyone,” says Kerin.

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