Gasche H.-E., Buhn Jörn B., Kussi J., Weppelmann J., 2016, Global Competence Management for Process & Plant Safety at Bayer, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 48, 859-864.
Excellence in the field of process and plant safety (PPS) is indispensable and a consistently high level of safety has to be achieved in all processes and facilities within the Bayer Group worldwide. Global PPS competence has been identified as one important pillar in managing process safety at Bayer. This paper deals with the research questions of how a holistic concept can look like in order to safeguard a high level of PPS competence across all levels of the organization and specifically at PPS expert level. For this purpose a global competence management system based on four key measures (or initiatives) is presented: Besides the development and certification of PPS Practitioners, introduction of PPS corporate standard solutions and support practices, and active PPS community management this paper introduces a novel concept with regard to a quality assurance system for process hazard analyses (PHAs). The ultimate objective of these initiatives is to implement a globally uniform, consistent and quality assured system for PPS.
