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Auditing Process Safety Management Systems
By Mr. James D. Cibelli
Session# 9
Tuesday February 23, 2010

10:30 - 11:10

An audit is a fundamental part of an effective process safety program because its purpose is to verify that systems to manage process safety are in place and functioning effectively. The audit element also needs to have a management system in place to ensure that it functions effectively—particularly the follow-up on action items. This paper will describe a step by step process to effectively manage and conduct an audit. The authors managed the CCPS Guidelines for PSM Auditing. Included in this new guidance will be advice on how to incorporate the recently published CCPS book on Risk-Based Process Safety (RBPS) was used as a basis for choosing the program structure, that is, the elements that make up a process safety program. These elements are similar to but not identical to the elements in OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) Standard (29 CFR 1901.119), and the prevention portion of EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) Rule (40 CFR 68). In addition to the technical elements of a process safety program, this book also addresses other sources of process safety program content and guidance, e.g., Process safety culture, OSHA’s audit guidance, the Safety and Environmental Management Program (SEMP), and International process safety standards.


Presenter – Mr. James D. Cibelli

Mr. Cibelli has over twenty-five years of diversified engineering experience in risk management in the process industries. Mr. Cibelli has provided training, safety and operations guidance to clients by developing and implementing Process Safety Management (PSM) management systems for a multitude of critical risks. His work has included Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), compliance auditing, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and other analysis techniques.

Mr. Cibelli has extensive experience in onshore and offshore production facilities in West Africa, Canada, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand, UK, and throughout the United States. He held numerous positions within Exxon’s reservoir engineering, asset management and agency relations groups. Mr. Cibelli has been involved with the successful startup of two offshore production platforms as well as several projects involving FPSOs. He has applied this experience to all industries in order to improve safety and productivity through risk analysis.

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