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OH&S Management System Presentation ASSE-Kuwait Chapter
1. BS OHSAS 18001:2007 OH&S Management System Standard “ Asking me to overlook a simple safety violation would be asking me to compromise my entire attitude towards the value of your life !” 01.05.2010
2. A Tragic Incidents that Shook the world Union Carbide MIC Gas Tragedy. Bhopal, India Dec 2-3, 1984 01.05.2010
3. What is Occupational Health and Safety ? Conditions and factors that affect, or could affect, the health and safety of employees or other workers (including temporary workers and contractor personnel), visitors, or any other person in the workplace (3.23) 01.05.2010
4. Hazard source, situation, or act with a potential for harm in terms of human injury or ill health (3.8), or a combination of these Hazard identification process of recognizing that a hazard (3.6) exists and defining its characteristics Ill health identifiable, adverse physical or mental condition arising from and/or made worse by a work activity and/or work‑related situation Terms and Definitions 01.05.2010
16. 01.05.2010 Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment 1 Physical hazards 2 Chemical hazards 3 Biological hazards 4 Psycho-social hazards Types of Hazard
17. Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Likelihood of Occurrence 01.05.2010 Description Occurrence Ranking Likelihood of Occurrence Most Likely 6-7 Very high chances or likelihood of occurrence due to work activity, controls measures and process unpredictability etc Likely 4-5 Controls are in place still is it probable considering the nature of work activities or process. Remote 2-3 Due to unknown factors or system limitation or uncertainties , there is a remote likelihood of occurrence Unlikely 0-1 Not likely to happen or a very remote likelihood, Controlled and stable processes
18. 01.05.2010 Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Severity Rating Description Severity Rating Definition Catastrophic 5-6 Permanent disability or fatality of persons, mass poisoning or contamination with cross boundary effect. Such as Atomic Power station failure, Tank farm or an entire facility on fire costing the entire facility which causing serious environmental damage causing health concern Critical 3-4 Condition which may cause serious personnel injury or ill health for a prolonged period ; severe occupational illness leading to chronic illness; Safety of People are seriously affected. Marginal 1- 2 Condition which may cause some minor injury or ill health and have potential if causing critical injuries or ill health unless controlled. Minor physical injury or momentary exposure with minor effect on OH&S
21. 01.05.2010 Why Audit? IOCL Jaipur Tank Farm Fire 29 October 2009 What has Gone wrong? Could it be prevented ? An effective OH&S Management System as per BS OHSAS 18001 : 2007 Management standard implementation could have prevented this. -This is what I feel. What do you feel?
22. 01.05.2010 Why Audit? Was there an audit? Hazards Identified? Risk assessed? No Disaster management Plan and Emergency Preparedness- Govt. acknowledged that there was no Disaster Management plan- Early detection of hydrocarbon vapour and Communication System?- Leak Started at- Vapour Cloud formed. Accident /explosion took place at Compliance to statutory requirements? Top Management Commitment to prevent accident incident? Communication of Hazards and Risks to interested parties? Operational Control ? In Normal and Abnormal Situations? Emergency communication?
23. 01.05.2010 Why Audit? Emergency preparedness ? Foam Spreader ? Fire monitor, Tank Cooling System? Accident Happened in the evening-Work environment-infrastructure adequate? Evidence of Root Cause analysis and Corrective actions? Tanks spacing ? Preventive maintenance ? Detection system of hydrocarbon vapour Emergency shutdown Adequacy of Firefighting system? A systematic Audit would have identified this areas of concern and possibly would have prevented the accident or prevented this catstrophy or could have mitigated the loss.
24. 01.05.2010 Disclaimer The incident of IOCL is brought for discussion based on information available in public domain such as Wikipedia. This presentation does not include and make reference to any classified information about IOCL organization neither is the intent of this presentation. The case is discussed for sharing common and potential causes which can prevent similar catastrophe and save lives There are references to similar or even more catastrophic disasters and incidents in public domain such as Piper Alpha in North Sea published by BBC for public interest. Also there is reference to Woodward, Oklahoma Oil Storage Tank Fire, 12-10-08, Crude Oil Boilover Explosion Our intent is that the lessons learnt make professionals aware of the risks and Hazards to ensure adequate control and save assets - property and life of People
