We are one of the country’s largest private oil and gas operators, playing a pivotal role in continuously shaping and strengthening our ‘Process Safety Culture’ within our operations and beyond. Safety is an inherent part of our planning, starting from the conceptual design, construction, and commissioning to the operational phases of any project life cycle through our gated processes.
The oil and gas industries inherently involve risks of fire, explosions, and toxic gas releases.
Globally, industries have witnessed major oil and gas disasters such as Piper Alpha, Macondo, Buncefield, Mumbai High, Jaipur Fire, Texas, Baghjan and many chemical industries incidents like the Bhopal Gas Tragedy and the recent LG polymer incident. These incidents serve as stark reminders that even a small mistake can lead to such disasters , resulting in significant loss of lives, property , environmental damage, and threats to business continuity . This underscores the need for greater focus on process safety.
While these major disasters involving highly hazardous chemicals have drawn national and international attention to the potential for catastrophic events, there is a wealth of information concerning many other, less notable releases of highly hazardous chemicals.
Process safety is a disciplined framework for managing the integrity of operating systems and procedures that handle hazardous substances. It relies on good design principles, robust engineering, and diligent operating and maintenance practices. Our approach is to proactively implement safe and environmentally friendly practices to achieve our goal of Zero Harm, Zero Waste, and Zero Discharge. In other words, instead of devising ways to respond to crises and emergencies, we emphasize a comprehensive set of policies, procedures, and practices designed to ensure that barriers to catastrophic incidents are in place, actively used, and effective.
To strengthen our Process Safety Culture, we have conducted a gap assessment across our organisation to align our Process Safety Management (PSM) framework with the Centre for Chemical Process Safety’s (CCPS) 20 elements, thereby enhancing our PSM practices in line with global best practices.
| As per Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Process Safety Management (PSM) Standard (29 CFR 1910.119) Our Existing PSM framework. | Centre for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) 20 elements & 04 pillars. We completed Gap assessment recently with this new framework. |
Contributed by: U S Rao and Shivam Kumar
