An approach to help a company reduce duplication of its management efforts as it improves its process safety performance is described in the CCPS book “Guidelines for Integrating Management Systems and Metrics to Improve Process Safety,” scheduled to be published in 2015. This article provides an overview for the book, describing how a company can identify and prioritize its process safety‐related risks across its separate safety, health, environmental, quality, and security groups (SHEQ&S), helping ensure that decisions made at any level in the company, whether corporate, regional, or local, do not increase its overall risk. An example showing some metrics affecting process safety performance across the SHEQ&S groups is provided to help the reader apply this approach to their organization. The Guideline addresses the risk reduction efforts and complex interaction between these groups, focusing on process safety‐related metrics that cross the different SHEQ&S group boundaries. This book combines the Plan, Do, Check, Act management life cycle approach, the Bow Tie barrier analysis risk reduction approach, the Risk‐Based Process Safety concepts and applies recent advances for identifying and implementing process safety‐related metrics. The bottom line: A company can improve its overall process safety performance using process safety‐related metrics in an integrated SHEQ&S management system. © 2014 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog 34: 259–266, 2015

What do you consider when buying a used car? Do you have minimum safety requirements for your used car? Similarly, do you have minimum safety requirements for existing equipment in your plant? One of the CCPS Vision 20/20 Industry Tenets is Disciplined Adherence to Standards. In this tenet, Vision 20/20 puts special emphasis on application of standards for existing equipment. Companies with great process safety performance recognize that having minimum standards for existing equipment is as important as having them for new projects. However, identifying and applying relevant standards to equipment that may have been installed decades ago can be challenging. This article will describe how to establish minimum standards for existing equipment and will provide a suggested approach for the implementation of these internal or common industry standards.

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