Process Safety Management Auditing

Service summary

An assessment of existing management arrangements intended to control significant process hazards. The audit examines the integrity of operating practices, technical interfaces and change controls across selected process activities.

Findings give management a structured view of process safety governance and implementation. The service does not undertake plant design, quantitative risk modelling or engineering approval unless separately and appropriately contracted.

Key objectives

• Assess process safety management implementation
• Examine management of change controls
• Evaluate operating and integrity evidence
• Identify weaknesses in incident learning

Methodology

Selected hazardous processes and lifecycle events are traced through established process safety controls and their supporting technical records.

• Agree process boundaries, hazard profile and applicable management criteria.
• Review process safety information, assessments and incident history.
• Select changes, maintenance events and critical operating activities.
• Examine operating procedures, competence and authorisation evidence.
• Trace mechanical integrity, protective-system and change-control records.
• Evaluate incident investigations and completion of required actions.
• Report management control findings and technical evidence limitations.

Key outcomes

References: [G04]

• Process safety management report
• Change-control and integrity findings
• Operating discipline evidence
• Documented escalation priorities