We use cookies on our website to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze traffic to our website. To provide you with a convenient online experience and to improve our communications, please click "ACCEPT ALL". By doing so, you consent to the processing and sharing of your information with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. You can revoke your consent at any time in the settings .
Data protection declaration
Settings

Incident Investigation: A Key Element in Effective Process Safety

Incident Investigation: A Key Element in Effective Process Safety

Incident Investigation: A Key Element in Effective Process Safety

A corrective view of this misunderstanding lays bare the value of investigating incidents and near misses, and demonstrates how the results of these investigations can be used as drivers for process safety risk reduction.
Heinrich’s pyramid has been very popular for a century as a tool to describe the numerical relationship between incidents with varying degrees of severity. The correlation can even be extrapolated into process safety, considering major incidents. The numerical correlation between the different severity levels is useful to describe reality, but cannot be used as a driver to change it.
A sound organizational process safety system is key in reducing the risk of a catastrophic event to tolerable levels.
To download the full PDF Whitepaper, please fill the form below.