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1SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN APPLICATION OF THE
SEVESO II DIRECTIVE LESSONS LEARNT FROM
IMPLEMENTATION IN SMEs
O. Salvi, I. Vuidart, M. Caumont, F. Prats
Institut National de l Environnement Industriel
et des RisquesParc Technologique Alata, BP 2, F-
60 550 Verneuil-en-Halatte, France Phone 33 3
44 55 61 01, fax 33 3 44 55 62 95, email
Olivier.Salvi_at_ineris.fr
1. The enquiry
- Recommandations and proposal
- Improving the interest in major hazard prevention
? need to convince top management with arguments - Reduction of financial loss in case of an
accident, due to the destruction of the
production equipment and the loss of production,
and of market shares - Preserving the image of the enterprise (media
impact) - Diminution of insurance costs
- Building a communication policy with the
stakeholders - Involving the personal in the MAPP ? MAPP is the
foundation of the SMS for both low tier and
high tier - Commitment of the enterprise / direction
- Long term objectives with continuous improvement
process - Structures and means to fulfil the objectives
- Involvement of all employees (consulting them
with questionnaires, debates) - Reinforcing the responsibility of the operator ?
self-controlled systems based on PDCA principle - Operator has the best place to identify the
hazards and to allocate the means to prevent them - Inspection to guarantee the good functioning of
the SMS - Inspection to perceive safety culture
- Using risk analysis as a fundamental tool ? use
input data to identify potential accidents,
evaluate their likelihood and severity, determine
reducing measures - Gathering various persons involved in the
functioning of the enterprise - Ranking to define priorities for actions
- Context and objectives
- An informal enquiry was launched to anticipate
the implementation of Major Accident Prevention
Policy (MAPP) and Safety Management Systems (SMS)
required by the Seveso II Directive. The
objectives of the enquiry was to better know the
needs of industrialists, in particulare SMEs, to
propose solutions tools, methodologies,
information
- Enquiry progress and results
- To carry out the enquiry, a working group has
been constituted. During one year, it met several
industrialists and expose them the requirements
of the directive and collect their reactions. To
facilitate the discussion, INERIS elaborated a
manual with slides to address the following
points
- Observations and objectives related to SMS
implementation - Presentation of the contents of the Seveso II
directive - Brief description of operators documents that
could be part of the PPAM and SMS Constitution of
a working group at INERIS - We identified some recurrent success factors
- Strong implication of the top management right
from the beginning - Existence of a Management Systems ISO 9000 or
14000 - Existence of a safety culture
2. Perspectives
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- Based on the results of the enquiry, INERIS has
developed a tool to analyse risks linking both
technical and organisational aspects. This risk
analysis method is called ATOS, for Analyse of
Technical and Organisational Safety. - The model used in ATOS considers that the
organisation is seen as the interaction of three
elements the safety technical elements (tools,
equipment), the system (activities, processes,
procedures) and the people. - The SMS is described as the structural aspect of
the organisation, in other words, the
treacability of the prevention system in place,
called the FORMAL, see figure 3. - The Human Factor is approached from the
sociological angle, using a tool called
lanalyse stratégique that aimed at assessing
the organisation efficiency, integrating power
plays and cultural aspects of the organisation.
This represents the INFORMAL side of the
organisation. - Practically the analysis with ATOS is operated by
teams composed with engineers and sociologists
through the following steps - - a classical technical risk analysis ,
- - the identification of the activities required
to be assured for the efficiency of the line
of defence identified through the risk analysis, - - a sociological analysis to assess what truly
happens, beyond what is written. - At the moment, the concept is developed and it is
intend to implement it in the forthcoming months
with industrialists, particularly SMEs working in
chemical industry.
- A risk analysis linking technical and
organisational aspects - The SMEs are structured to produce. Regarding
safety, they bet on their reactivity and on the
informal component of their organisation. Due to
the regulation requirements, their strategy
should evolve, but they cant adopt full formal
safety management systems. See Figure 1 and 2.
Figure 1 various efficient organisational
safety approaches
Figure 3 risk control model in ATOS
Figure 2 formal and informal components of
safety organisation
INFORMAL
FORMAL
sociological
SMS
approach
structure
1
Roles, responsibilities
Organisation and personnel
1
2
Communications
Identification and evaluation
2
of major hazards
Decision making
3
Management of change
3
Skills
4
4
Operational control
Monitoring, continuous
5
improvement
5
Emergency preparedness
6
6
Management
Learning from experience
7
Co-operation
7
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