Operations Practices
Our operations practices services enable plant management and staff to increase their awareness of how culture, organization structure and policy, workplace design, management systems and use of technology impact performance. Establishing effective operations can reduce the likelihood of abnormal situations and process safety incidents.
Operations Practices Assessment
Our effective operations practices assessment service compares your practices against the typical industry practice as well as the industry best practices. Our team can assist you in the implementation of solutions that deliver improved process safety and profitability to your operations.
Our assessment service examines the quality of operations practices in five specific areas:
- Staffing and procedures
- Knowledge and skill development
- Team situation awareness
- Operator alertness and focus
- Continuous improvement
Use of Procedures
An effective procedural practice enables plants to achieve effective and efficient routine operations, minimize human-induced disturbances, and enable swift responses to critical or emergency events.
Our procedure design service assesses opportunities to enhance procedural operations and guides the development of procedural content, format, and deployment mechanisms. Our team member, Peter Bullemer, is lead author on the ASM Consortium Guidelines on Effective Procedural Practices. Our procedure design services can help plants achieve compliance with these recommended industry best practices.
Excellence in procedural practices starts with a reasonable policy on what activities need procedural support and requires development of an effective management system to define procedural content, deploy procedures appropriate to the context of use and monitor their effectiveness.
