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TiPS Newsletter - August 2006
White Paper:
Effective Shift Handover is No Accident - Ian Nimmo
A successful handover between shifts heavily depends on the organizational skills of
management and the effective use of the communication tools available. On numerous occasions, poor handovers between shifts have been responsible for accidents. A
prominent example is the Texas City fire involving BP’s isomerization column on March 24,
2005. The nightshift filled the column. The dayshift continued to fill the column; it flooded, and
eventually led to an accident killing 15 people.
This white paper explores the tools used to effectively communicate
shift handover information and how they can be used to create
an effective handover.
Read
the entire white paper (146k PDF)
Feedback Forum:
Alarm Management as Operations Responsibility
The objective of alarm management is to improve overall plant
performance by improving the information available to operations.
Operations is the ultimate "user" of alarms and
other control room information. Therefore, Operations has
the most stake in alarm management and is uniquely positioned
to oversee the process of improving the alarm system.
Because Operations is capable of designing and adding alarms,
they should also have authority to modify or remove them.
Operations can be given the responsibility for managing and
staffing an alarm management effort or for overseeing a third-party
resource. Many of our clients are even going so far as downplaying
data analysis to allow members of the operating team to identify
"bad actor" alarms.
What are your thoughts about handing the alarm management
car keys to Operations? Good idea? Been there done that? Give
us your feedback at
www.alarmmanagement.com.
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