I am slightly changing a statement made by the great Mahatma
Gandhi (Earth has enough for every man’s need but not enough for every man’s greed), to suit process safety
management – PSM has enough for every
man’s need but not for every man’s greed! In PSM’s context, by “greed”, I
mean pressure to cut costs and increase profits without looking at the process
safety consequences. Time and again, when you look at various incidents that
have occurred and continue to occur even today around the World, the finger
points towards cost cutting or insufficient budgets implicitly affecting
process safety performance. Whatever model of PSM you adopt, “greed” cannot be
managed by a system– is has to be managed by a human being and that too the ones
at the top. .They can manage this only by understanding the consequences of their
actions. Not understanding the consequence of a decision that involves cost
cutting or even by not properly allocating and approving budgets can have
serious consequences on any process safety management system. Even though you might have implemented a system that addresses cost
cutting etc, such systems have a tendency to get bypassed in times of pressure.This happens even in the "best" of companies. Any solutions???
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