Whitepaper Part I – Key elements in effective Process Safety
Incident investigation is a powerful prevention tool in the process safety portfolio. It has been plagued, however, by misinterpretations of Heinrich’s pyramid, which misconstrue the relationship between minor incidents and full-blown catastrophes.
A corrective view of this misunderstanding lays bare the value of investigating incidents and near misses, and demonstrates how the results of these investigations can be used as drivers for process safety risk reduction.
A corrective view of this misunderstanding lays bare the value of investigating incidents and near misses, and demonstrates how the results of these investigations can be used as drivers for process safety risk reduction.