Loss Prevention Bulletin Improving process safety by sharing experience

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Loss Prevention BulletinImproving process safety
by sharing experience

• Sharing experience and learning from incidents
  has contributed to improved safety performance in
  the process industries.
• This is done via
• Companies internal investigations
• Sharing within industry groups
• Investigations and reports by authorities
• Databases (IChemE, CCPS)
• Loss Prevention Bulletin

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Loss Prevention BulletinImproving process safety
by sharing experience

• Industry must continue to share experience and
  learn from incidents if it is to meet the very
  high standards expected by society.
• This is recognized by
• CIAs Responsible Care
• European authorities such as Seveso II and COMAH.

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Loss Prevention BulletinImproving process safety
by sharing experience

• Corporate memory
• Organizations do not learn from the past.
  Individuals learn but they leave the
  organization, taking their knowledge with them.
• Trevor Kletz, Lessons from Disasters

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Loss Prevention BulletinImproving process safety
by sharing experience

• Corporate memory
• Both individual employees and organizations
  continue to change rapidly.
• Individuals change jobs or retire.
• Companies re-organize or change ownership leading
  to the loss of information.
• There is a strong need for industrial and
  professional memory.

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Loss Prevention BulletinImproving process safety
by sharing experience

• Although industry groups are sharing experience
  this is limited.
• Circulation is generally confined to that group.
• There are limited records produced.
• A mechanism for the wider sharing of information
  is still required.
• Loss Prevention Bulletin can provide this.

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Loss Prevention BulletinImproving process safety
by sharing experience

• What is Loss Prevention Bulletin?
• Published six times per year since 1974
• Over 1000 incidents reported
• Each includes lessons learned
• Peer review of each report
• No cases known where sharing experience has
  caused a problem
• Permanent public record
• International reputation.

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Loss Prevention BulletinImproving process safety
by sharing experience

• Professional memory through LPB
• Build on strengths and experience of LPB
• All articles peer reviewed and contain lessons
  learned
• Covers safety, health, environmental and loss
  incidents
• In public domain
• Available worldwide to both small and large
  organizations
• Available to students
• Established distribution system.

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Loss Prevention BulletinImproving process safety
by sharing experience

• Recent developments of LPB
• Electronic archive of over 1000 incidents
• Keyword search facilities
• Toolbox talks on common hazards.

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Loss Prevention BulletinImproving process safety
by sharing experience

• Professional memory through LPB will always
  depend on industry being prepared to spend a
  small amount of time in sharing experience.

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Loss Prevention BulletinImproving process safety
by sharing experience

• Submission of articles to LPB to retain
  professional memory
• Large or small articles
• Companies can contribute to future theme
  issues
• Articles can be anonymous
• Experienced editors available who can write
  articles based on company report (confidentiality
  agreements if necessary)
• Reports by telephone interview
• IChemE can abstract value from Company Archive
  Records.

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Loss Prevention BulletinImproving process safety
by sharing experience

• Loss Prevention Bulletin
• A demonstration of a responsible and proactive
  approach to safety by theprofession and by
  industry