EHS VI

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The process safety design review is a systematic and planned brainstorming meeting for identification of hazards, the assessment of the risks and reviewing the effectiveness of the risk control measures to make sure the safety of the employee and the equipment. This process usually involves all the safety team coming together and looking at all the issues that have been perspiring and see what they can do to remove the issues and prevent any more problems from coming into effect. “ Procedures spell out the standards and conditions to be followed, and comprehensive procedures assist in creating calm from chaos.” ( D, Ayers) When you think of safety review you think of the safety team reviewing all the issues coming into play from doing tasks. What they will do is open up the policies and look at the equipment and start brainstorming to see what we can come up with and change to better our employees and equipment from harm or hazards. We review the systems for flaws or maybe the company did some changes and bought a new equipment that will need a different system in place so we will review the process. Typically when I do this we will pull in other workers and team leaders to get there ideas since they are the ones having to work in that environment and around that machine. They are the front line workers so there ideas could be better then some of the safety teams ideas since we do not work out in the field or around that machine all the time. “Key leaders from the project team also participate. After appointing a facilitator, PHA review planning begins with a kickoff meeting. Several days are planned for the PHA Review”

( J, Brown. M, Martin) When the process of safety design review we usually take several days to plan and then several days more after to implement the new policies to allow the employees to build new equipment if needed. There are five principles of a safe design, persons with control which those are the ones who have the power to make changes and enforce. The second is the product life style, safe design applies to every stage in the lifecycle from conception through to disposal. It involves eliminating hazards. The third is Systematic risk management, apply hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control processes to achieve safe design. Forth is Safe design knowledge and capability, should be either demonstrated or acquired by those who control the design process. And the last one is Information transfer, effective communication and documentation of design and risk control information amongst everyone involved in the phases of the lifecycle is essential for the safe design approach. If one person on the crew is not informed then the system will fail because then one employee can make the whole team fail. Everything revolves around safety if one person or machine fails we all fail because we are only as strong as our weakiest link. If our weakiest link is in the management then we need to change the system. We have to look at our programs and policies every physical year to see what we can change, remove or improves with because each year there will be new systems coming in and new hires plus new machines that will need to be looked at to see what we may be able to do to keep our employees safe. And this process can take several days to go over with all safety teams and our employees. Gathering information from the employees will better our job as the

safety team because we may not be able to see hazards like the employees that work in the job at all times. The safety design review also needs to apply to all systems including the safety teams programs. If we as safety professionals do not look at our own systems for change then we might be using old out dated systems and end up hurting our self more then we do good. References Ayers, D. (2007, January 1). Designed for safety: by establishing a comprehensive project design review and process hazard review procedure, employees will know what is expected of them from an environmental, health and safety point of view. Occupational Hazards , 69 (1). Brown, J., & Martin, M. (2008, November 1). Designed-in safety: comprehensive review of potential hazards and operational safety designed into power plants is becoming more common. Power Engineering , 112 (11).

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