Effectively Manage Incident investigations Using Process Safety Enterprise®

Process Safety Enterprise^® (PSE), a cloud-based platform, helps manage PSM Incident Investigation, ensuring compliance with OSHA's PSM standard. This white paper details the key features of PSE, including:

• Document Control System: Easily stores and retrieves documents
• Intelligent Form Builder: Creates customizable forms
• Action Tracking System: Manages all tasks related to managing incidents
• Reporting and Dashboard/KPI: Provides real-time insights into activities
• PSM Incident Investigation Workflow: Guides users through documenting an incident investigation, such as the time, date, location, and incident details. Incident classification for Tier 1, 2, 3, and near-miss incidents per API 754 can also be documented.

A case study highlights the consequences of inadequate incident management. It emphasizes how a process to ensure incident investigations could have helped to prevent this disaster.

Introduction

Incident investigation is crucial to OSHA's PSM 29 CFR 1910.119 standard. It ensures that accidents and near misses are promptly investigated, root causes are identified and addressed, and a report is written to document and communicate the findings.

Businesses often encounter challenges overseeing these activities since the incident must be recorded, a team must be formed, data must be captured, root causes must be identified before recommendations can be made and pursued, and impacted personnel must be informed. Overlooking any of these activities can result in root causes that are not adequately addressed, which can lead to future incidents. These incidents can jeopardize the safety of employees, plant assets, the community, and the environment. Production could also be interrupted if an accident occurs.

An effective incident investigation process should include each of the activities above and track them to completion. Training should also be tracked for team leaders facilitating the root cause analysis process. Effective incident investigation systems help companies investigate, understand, and document incidents to prevent future occurrences. This workflow can help companies comply with the PSM requirements of the 29 CFR 1910.119 standard.

For businesses serious about implementing a comprehensive PSM compliance system, ioMosaic offers the Process Safety Enterprise^® (PSE) (Figure 1). PSE is a cloud-based platform enabling easy ongoing management of process safety data, helping businesses achieve compliance, manage risk, and remain competitive. Unlike any other system available in the market today, PSE is a centralized web-based application that integrates all PSM elements and workflows, making it THE ultimate solution for managing PSM incident investigation effectively. This white paper delves into the key features of incident investigation and how it benefits companies seeking to improve and elevate their investigative systems to manage accidents and near misses and prevent future events.

To help you better understand the requirements of the PSM standard, we recommend a PSM Essentials eLearning course like the one offered by Process Safety Learning^®.