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Safety Performance Leading Indicators (SPLI)
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has made process safety in the ‘Major hazards sector’ a priority, reinforcing the need to adopt procedures and monitoring systems which maximise the safety of operations, following feedback from the investigations into the Buncefield and Texas City incidents.
The critical importance of high standards of safety management and strong leadership within chemical and major hazard industries is now well understood. Effective management and strong leadership rely on accurate and relevant information on safety performance in order to allow timely corrective action to be taken before a major incident occurs. Unfortunately, many organisations within the chemical and major hazard industries use so-called lagging indicators to determine the correct operation of the safety management system. However, the use of leading indicators can help to provide a clear, accurate and ongoing picture of the status of the control measures needed to prevent major incidents. Carefully selected indicators will assist in detecting the pervasive deterioration in control measures and hopefully allow sufficient time to remedy the situation.
Whilst the implementation of SPLIs is being pushed by HSE for sites with a major hazard potential, this approach can be applied throughout industry as a means of improving safety and maintaining business continuity.
CBA has therefore, in partnership with UKWA, and endoresed by HSE, written the Safety Performance Leading Indicators Guidance to enable successful implementation of SPLIs.
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