This compendium covers several themes relating to safety performance indicators / risk indicators / process safety indicators. The following topics are covered: Indicator definitions Leveson and Systems Engineering/Systems Safety Frameworks, logics and other Indicator Examples (probably what most people want to see) Psychosocial Indicators Caveats, limitations, advice on indicators Relationship with Performance and Other Measures… Continue reading Research Compendium: Safety & Risk Performance indicators (lead, lag, drive, process safety + more)
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A Systems Thinking Approach to Leading Indicators in the Petrochemical Industry
I’m putting together the next Research Compendium, covering indicator definitions, frameworks and examples. Showing my own bias is a focus on Nancy Leveson’s work. This post has some extracts from her article ‘A Systems Thinking Approach to Leading Indicators in the Petrochemical Industry’. This is based on what Leveson calls “assumption-based indicators”. That is, developing… Continue reading A Systems Thinking Approach to Leading Indicators in the Petrochemical Industry
Thinking About Process Safety Indicators
This well-cited paper from Hopkins (2007) discusses some of the inconsistencies that existed at the time (and likely does still) about process safety indicators, and the definitions and uses of other indicators like leading and lagging. This paper sparked a number of interested follow-up papers from other authors – I’ll cover some of these soon.… Continue reading Thinking About Process Safety Indicators
