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Background
1 The United Kingdom Petroleum Industry Association (UKPIA), Oil & Gas UK, Nuclear Industry
Association (NIA), the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) and the Tank Storage Association
(TSA) have various initiatives in place to progress process safety in their industry sectors. OGUK
has ‘Step Change to Safety’, CIA ‘Responsible Care’ and NIA, UKPIA and TSA are well advanced
in their programmes to make process safety commitments a reality. In addition, UKPIA, CIA and
TSA are members of the Process Safety Leadership Group Steering Committee, which was
established to succeed the Buncefield Standards Task Group originally formed in the aftermath of
the Buncefield incident.
2 The Baker Report on the Texas City incident and its criticisms of the lack of leadership in
process safety, echoed by the MIIB reports into the Buncefield events, has acted as a wake
up call to the high hazard sector in its approach to the subject. Following the HSE-sponsored
‘Leading from the Top’ conference in April 2008, PSLG held a practitioners workshop in October
and CEO workshop in November. All involved challenged the industry and its trade associations
to put in place measures to ensure the sharing of best practice and learning from incidents across
sectors as well as within sectors. Hence, CIA, OGUK, UKPIA NIA and TSA have established the
Process Safety Forum to bring together the trade association experts to facilitate that sharing and
learning.
Aims of the Forum
3 The Process Safety Forum (PSF) has been set up to provide a platform whereby initiatives,
best practice, lessons from incidents and process safety strategy can be distilled and shared
across sectors; to influence our stakeholders (including the Regulator); and to drive the
process safety management performance agenda. The Forum may, from time to time, make
recommendations to industry via the trade associations on directions of travel that would likely
benefit all sectors.
4 Outcomes:
a shared understanding of the current initiatives in place and immediate future plans in all
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sectors on process safety;
identification of barriers to sharing of best practice and incident learnings in sectors and
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facilitating the development of recommendations for improvement;
identification of initiatives to enhance process safety leadership across sectors;
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a shared understanding of effective process safety performance indicators;
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stakeholders (including the Regulator) are informed and engaged. Messages are collective
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where appropriate and individual where necessary.
Appendix 8 Process Safety Forum:
Governance and terms of reference