Meeting the challenges of a process safety management system and insuring that the risk associated with our business is addressed can be challenging.  This is one of the reasons that the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) published their “Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety” in 2007.  This book is being used as a reference for the PetroSkills HSE course, Risk Based Process Safety Management.  During delivery of this course over the last couple of years, participants have agreed that one of the challenges facing them at the local level is that some elements of the PSM system they work with are somewhat complicated and are focused on trying to achieve consistency throughout an organization.  While the concept of having consistency throughout an organization is an excellent goal, issues at the local level sometimes make this difficult to accomplish. 
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