API RP 754-2016

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Process Safety Performance Indicators for the Refining and Petrochemical Industries

Published By	Publication Date	Number of Pages
API	2016	120

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Description

1.1 General

This recommended practice (RP) identifies leading and lagging process safety indicators useful for driving performance improvement. As a framework for measuring activity, status or performance, this document classifies process safety indicators into four tiers of leading and lagging indicators. Tiers 1 and 2 are suitable for nationwide public reporting and Tiers 3 and 4 are intended for internal use at individual sites. Guidance on methods for development and use of performance indicators is also provided.

1.2 Applicability

This RP was developed for the refining and petrochemical industries, but may also be applicable to other industries with operating systems and processes where loss of containment has the potential to cause harm. Applicability is not limited to those facilities covered by the OSHA Process Safety Management Standard, 29 CFR 1910.119 or similar national and international regulations.

At colocated facilities (e.g. industrial park), this recommended practice applies individually to the companies that own and operate the processes and not to the site as a whole.

Events associated with the following activities fall outside the scope of this RP and shall not be included in data collection or reporting efforts:

a) releases from pipeline transfer operations occurring outside the process or storage facility fence line;

b) marine transport operations, except when the vessel is connected to the process for the purposes of feedstock or product transfer;

c) truck or rail operations, except when the truck or rail car is connected to the process for the purposes of feedstock or product transfer, or if the truck or rail car is being used for on site storage;

d) vacuum truck operations, except on-site truck loading or discharging operations, or use of the vacuum truck transfer pump;

e) routine emissions that are allowable under permit or regulation;

f) office, shop and warehouse building events (e.g. office fires, spills, personnel injury or illness, etc.);

g) personal safety events (e.g. slips, trips, falls) that are not directly associated with on-site response to a loss of primary containment (LOPC) event;

h) LOPC events from ancillary equipment not connected to the process (e.g. small sample containers);

i) quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC) and research and development (R&D) laboratories (pilot plants are included);

j) retail service stations; and

k) on-site fueling operations of mobile and stationary equipment (e.g. pick-up trucks, diesel generators, and heavy equipment).

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