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Tzu-Lien Tzou
Tzu-Lien
Tzou
A methodology for assessing the performance of safety information management in the process industry
Loughborough University
2018
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Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
2018-08-21 15:04:09
Thesis
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/A_methodology_for_assessing_the_performance_of_safety_information_management_in_the_process_industry/9238937
The relationship between mismanagement of information and its adverse effect on plant
safety in the process industry is now widely recognised. Ignorance of essential facts and
messages will lead inexorably to a catastrophic outcome. This process has been called
an 'information disaster'. Many incidents provide lessons on improving Safety
Information Management (SIM). Evaluating SIM performance can provide
interventions to prevent disasters and improve plant safety.
In order to improve SIM performance for the process industry, this research adopted the
Balanced Scorecard (BSC) concept to design a performance measurement framework.
The framework includes four 'perspectives' and twenty-eight 'indicators' with their own measures.
The framework has been developed from an extensive literature review, a plant
investigation and two incremental surveys, one of professional opinion in the process
industry in Taiwan and the second a broader verification from experts. [Continues.]