Process Safety Beacon Index

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) publishes a Process Safety Beacon every month. The following is an overview of the Beacons provided by the CCPS.

The Process Safety Beacon is a resource aimed at delivering process safety messages to plant operators and other manufacturing personnel. The monthly one-page newsletter covers the breadth of process safety topics.

The Beacons generally provide a description of an actual incident, an analysis of that incident, and a list of lessons learned. We supplement these analyses with our own interpretation, suing the 20 elements of process safety provided by the CCPS:

1. Process Safety Culture
2. Compliance
3. Competence
4. Workforce Involvement
5. Stakeholder Outreach
6. Knowledge Management
7. Hazard Identification and Risk Management
8. Operating Procedures
9. Safe Work Practices
10. Asset Integrity / Reliability
11. Contractor Management
12. Training / Performance
13. Management of Change
14. Operational Readiness
15. Conduct of Operations
16. Emergency Management
17. Incident Investigation
18. Measurement and Metrics
19. Auditing
20. Management Review

The Table provides an index for the Beacons. The first column shows the date; the second column the title of the Beacon with a matching link; the third column the relevant substack analysis (also with a matching link); the fourth column shows the PSM element that was strongly relevant to this particular Beacon.