Learning is a continuous process in life, and there are various learnings, but here we will limit our understandings with safety only. We talk about safety learning - Learning from incidents is an essential part of the Health & Safety Management System. Learning from our own mistakes avoids reoccurrence, and learning from others' mistakes avoids occurrences of any similar incident, and instead, it is free of cost. Lessons learned is one of the vital tools to improve the safety culture.
Accordingly, this safety course is developed to spread a systematic approach to lessons learned from incidents. With various topics and subtopics and intermittent quizzes, we will try to understand the following key aspects, such as
· Lessons Learned Process including
o What is Learning from incidents?
o Why do we need to learn lessons?
o What is effective Learning with elements of Learning
· Will analyze an incident case study of actual Incident Hazira gas plant fire. The incident happened on the 24th of September 2020 at one of the Gas Processing plants in India: ONGC (Oil and natural gas company), situated at Hazira in Gujarat near a city: Surat.
· We will discuss
o Incident summary
o PEAR Loss (means loss in terms of People, Environment, Assess & reputation)
o Including Brief on Plant and processes
· The course will include the significant part that is What went wrong?
We will discuss PSM (Process Safety Management System) and its 14 elements and map incident findings concerning each element. So that we can understand, we can identify the gap and act accordingly
· We shall also discuss the Cause & Root Cause of the incidents, and an essential aspect is
How to avoid it in the future? By discussing investigation Committee recommendation
· At the end of the course, we will discuss Missed Opportunities by commenting on the investigation process and how this could be better.