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HSE personnel maintain active dialogue with the manufacturing and
chemical handling areas. This interaction helps team members clearly un-
derstand the risks that must be controlled and the specific HSE support re-
quired. The team’s expertise is recognized, and members are often invited to
participate in improvement efforts initiated by the manufacturing and chem-
ical handling departments. The HSE team is highly respected throughout
the company, and the team is proud of its contributions and partnership role
with line organizations.

QMI Site Management Team:
Serious Incident Prevention

The site management team is led by QMI’s plant manager, with mem-
bership that includes manufacturing, chemical handling, and HSE depart-
ment heads. The site management team focuses on ensuring incident
prevention processes are effectively deployed throughout the organization.
The team has identified and documented its critical work for proactively
impacting serious incident prevention (Table 15-9).

TABLE 15-9
QMI Site Management Team Serious Incident Prevention Critical Work

Critical Work Frequency
Integrate serious incident prevention objectives into Annual review and update
safety policy & communicate through organization
Establish goals & performance expectations that support Annual review and update
serious incident prevention objectives; communicate
through organization
Schedule line organization briefings regarding potential Annual briefing by each
risks and status of the incident prevention process department
Walk-through visit/inspection of chemical handling and Annual
manufacturing department facilities
Ensure audits of departmental serious incident prevention Annual
processes are conducted and results are reviewed
Review investigation reports for accidents and near-miss First team meeting following
events having serious incident potential occurrence
Assess the site team’s serious incident prevention process; Annual review with monthly
initiate updates & improvements review of improvement
actions