ABSTRACT
Safe process operation is essential for reducing the process safety risks and for reducing incidents. To help provide training consistency and to help ensure personnel competency, administrative controls are established for everyone working with or supporting the hazardous processes. Inherent to operating safe processes, the training efforts across the organization depend on the effective communication between the different groups affecting or being affected by the equipment life cycle and the other process safety systems, such as designing the process, operating the process and changing processes safely. This chapter focuses on how to address the training and competency of those directly impacting the equipment life cycle and of those directly or indirectly impacting the effectiveness of the process safety system's Plan, Do, Change, Act (PDCA) life cycle. Hence, how an organization can safely run their operations depends on the operational discipline of everyone from the shop floor to senior leadership.
