Case Study about Scottish Power
Power Generation Company gets to Grips with Process Safety
Energy company Scottish Power set out to learn from others about asset integrity, process safety management and key performance indicators. It looked to the chemical and major hazard industries for good practice. It has taken this learning and good practice and made dramatic improvements in its management of risk, delivering significant cost savings to the business.
Process safety is a priority for the Health and Safety Executive. It is not enough to simply have designed and implemented a process safety management system. Without collecting and acting on information that shows the system is actually working and delivering effective control of risk, you cannot be sure that your major hazards are being controlled and you will be operating blind, hoping and believing that everything is fine but without actually knowing. Reality has a habit of catching up on such companies – frequently with catastrophic consequences. Keep reading…
