CCPS: 4 Pillars and 20 Elements of Process Safety Practice Exam Questions With Correct Answers

1. The Hazard (what can go wrong?) 2. The Magnitude (how bad could it be?) 3. The Likelihood (how often might it happen?) - correct answers 3 Elements of Risk - Commitment to Process Safety - Understand Hazards and Risks - Manage Risk - Learn from Experience - correct answers 4 Pillars of Process Safety - Process Safety Culture - Compliance with Standards - Process Safety Competency - Workforce Involvement - Stakeholder Outreach - correct answers Elements of Pillar 1: Commitment to Process Safety - Process Knowledge Management - Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis (HIRA) - correct answers Elements of Pillar 2: Understand Hazards and Risks - Operating Procedures - Safe Work Practices - Asset Integrity and Reliability - Contractor Management - Training and Performance Assurance - Management of Change - Operational Readiness - Conduct of Operations - Emergency Management - correct answers Elements of Pillar 3: Manage Risk - Incident Investigation - Measurement and Metrics - Auditing - Management Review and Continuous Improvement - correct answers Elements of Pillar 4: Learn from Experience The combination of group values and behaviors that determine the manner in which process safety is managed - correct answers Element 1: Process Safety Culture A system to identify, develop, provide access to standards, codes, laws, and regulations that affect process safety - correct answers Element 2: Compliance with Standards 1. Continuously improving knowledge and competency of the company as a whole 2. Ensuring the appropriate info is available to people who need it 3. Consistently applying what has been learned - correct answers Element 3: Process Safety Competency Personnel at all levels and positions in the company should have roles and responsibilities for enhancing and ensuring the safety of the operations - correct answers Element 4: Workforce Involvement Seek out individuals or organizations that can be affected to engage in dialogue about PS (including Federal, State, and Local authorities and community) - correct answers Element 5: Stakeholder Outreach Focuses on info that can be recorded in documents (specifications, calculations, chemicals and equipment uses, etc) - correct answers Element 6: Process Knowledge Management Collective term for all activities involved in identifying hazards and evaluation risk at facilities to determine if the risks to employees, the public, and environment are within a company's risk tolerance - correct answers Element 7: Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis (HIRA) Written instructions that lists the steps for a given task, to be done in a given manner (includes start up, normal operating conditions, temporary operating conditions, shut-down, and emergency shut-down) - correct answers Element 8: Operating Procedures Formalized process to help control hazards and manage risk associated with work NOT directly involved with process (non-routine) operations - correct answers Element 9: Safe Work Practices Ensure that equipment is properly designed, installed, and remains in proper working order - correct answers Element 10: Asset Integrity and Reliability A system of controls to ensure that contracted services support both safe facility operations and the company's process safety and personal safety performance goals; care must be taken in the selection, acquisition, use, and monitoring of contracted services - correct answers Element 11: Contractor Management Training - practical instruction in job and task requirements and methods to enable workers to meet some minimum initial performance standards, to maintain their proficiency or to qualify them for a promotion to a more demanding position Performance Assurance - the way that a company determines if and how personnel have understood the training in practical situations - correct answers Element 12: Training and Performance Assurance Ensures that changes to a process do not introduce new hazards or increase existing hazards; assess the risk of the change and mitigate the risk to acceptable levels withing a defined methodology and appropriate worker and managerial approvals - correct answers Element 13: Management of Change (MOC) Confirming that new processes, modified processes, and changes to the process were safe to start up; verification that equipment and processes that have been shut down are in safe condition for re-start - correct answers Element 14: Operation Readiness (startups) Execution of operational and management tasks in a structured manner; plan-the-work-work-the-plan; operational discipline is the pursuit of a consistent and high level of human performance - correct answers Element 15: Conduct of Operations Planning for all sorts of possible emergencies, providing resources to mitigate, practicing and improving the plan, communication and training workers and contractors, neighbors, and local authorities on what to do in what type of situations - correct answers Element 16: Emergency Management Process for reporting, tracking, and investigating incidents and near-misses that include a formal process for staffing the investigation, performing the investigation, and documenting the investigation of the process incident - correct answers Element 17: Incident Investigation Establishes performance and efficiency indicators to monitor the effectiveness of the RBPS management program; determines which indicators to consider, how often to collect data, and what to do with the data - correct answers Element 18: Measurements and Metrics A systematic, independent review to verify conformance with prescribed standards of care; identify management system and performance gaps in the process safety management system and correct gaps before an incident occurs - correct answers Element 19: Auditing Routine evaluation of whether management systems are performing as intended and producing the desired results as efficiently as possible; due-diligence of managers - correct answers Element 20: Management Review and Continuous Improvement - Identify scenarios based upon hazards - Assess these accident scenarios to find ranges of potential effects - Match an emergency plan to these scenarios - Plan defensive response actions - Plan offensive response - correct answers Steps to Develop Emergency Management Plan