Auditing for Process Safety and Risk Management
Learn the fundamental skills, techniques and tools of auditing and how to perform your facility’s Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk Management Program (RMP) audits. Consistent use of the techniques presented can significantly improve your audit and your process safety management performance. Attendees will learn how to perform an audit for compliance and for best practices, proper documentation of findings and recommendations, and reporting. The course includes the characteristics of a good process safety management system to provide auditors with a benchmark for audits (using AcuTech’s PSM Index™).
AcuTech was the contractor selected to write the revision of the Center for Chemical Process Safety’s (CCPS) Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems in 2010-2011 and the course is based largely on the revised book, which includes the PSM program elements published in CCPS’s Risk Based Process Safety book. AcuTech consultants are BEAC Certified Process Safety Auditor™ (CPSA™) professional designation. The Certified Process Safety Auditor credential demonstrates one’s understanding of important Process Safety elements and regulations.
- Understand how to effectively manage an audit program for PSM/RMP including:
- How to establish audit criteria, protocol, audit scope and frequency.
- Audit reporting and follow-up of recommendations.
- How to develop an effective audit capability.
- The fundamentals of preparing for, conducting, and closing out an audit.
- Learn about OSHA’s compliance priorities including citations, interpretations, and cases and EPA’s third party audits.
- Gain insight to key focus areas for PSM improvement.
- Learn about relevant recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices (RAGAGEP).