Working groups have been formed to develop solutions to industry-wide health and safety issues. The working groups in progress are noted below. Once a working group has completed their task the outcomes from the group are published as guidelines.
Process Safety
It is generally accepted that 'process safety' is about preventing incidents that, while having a low likelihood of occurrence, are associated with severe potential consequences.
The Process Safety Working Group is focused on broadening the understanding of process safety risks in the industry. We collaborate on methodologies to manage controls that both assist in preventing those risks from occurring and reduce the consequences if they do.
The group includes companies in both Australia and New Zealand.
Latest News
A Guideline for Development of Major Incident Bowtie Diagrams has been written and published in the link below. This guide has been developed in collaboration with StayLive members from Australia and New Zealand and seeks to establish a common approach to major incident bowtie diagram development across industry that is aligned with international good practices.
An on-line training module for Process Safety Awareness has been published as a generic introductory module for the electricty industry.
The Team
Chair: Leigh McLellan (Mercury)
Team: John Lilly, Rachelle Meijer, Brendan Bleasdale & Robert Ochtman-Corfe (Contact Energy)
Bevan Lange (Eastland)
David Lynch & Luke Godsall (Genesis Energy)
Prakash Gautam (Manawa Energy)
Justin Lloyd (MB Century)
Kent Mahon (Mercury)
Nathaniel Janke-Gilman (Meridian)
Shane Minty (Origin Energy)
Michael Harris (Snowy Hydro)
The Opportunity
- Increase and maintain the visibility of process safety management in the electricity industry.
- Share learnings from the implementation of a process safety management system.
- Support best practice delivery of process safety across the industry.
Outcomes and Benefits
- A Guideline for reporting Process Safety Thresholds for the Electricity Industry (based on API RP754). Complete
- A Guideline for Safety Critical Elements (SCE) which includes clarifying the definition of an SCE and identifying these within a facility. Complete
- A Best Practice Guide for Sustained Process Safety Culture and Awareness including a toolkit that companies can draw from to keep their process safety cultures alive over time. Complete
- A Guide to the maintenance of Fire Systems. Complete
- Process Safety induction module to complement traditional Occupational Health and Safety Inductions. The module introduces Process Safety, outlines key Process Safety tools and systems, and takes learners through a range of scenarios relevant to the energy industry. This is a generic module, noting that most companies will also have comprehensive Process Safety Management Systems which need to be adhered to. Complete
- A Guideline for Development of Major Incident Bowtie Diagrams. The guideline is to help define major incident for facilities not designated MHFs and outline a process for identifying major incident scenarios. Complete
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