Essential Practices for Developing, Strengthening and Implementing Process Safety Culture

This book provides an overview for understanding an organization‘s working culture and provides guidance on why a good culture is essential for safe, cost-effective, and high quality operations. It includes a wide range of topics such as defining process safety culture (history, organizational impact and benefits, and role of organizational leadership at all levels); core principles (maintain sense of vulnerability, combat normalization of deviance, establish an imperative for safety, perform valid/timely hazard/risk assessments, ensure open and frank communications, learn and advance the culture); leadership for process safety culture within the organizational structure; applications and work processes; and sustaining process safety culture improvements, warning signs of cultural degradation and remedies, use of applications discussed in earlier chapters , the importance of using diverse methods over time to assess culture.