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Management Commitment
and Leadership
Involve Employees
Understand the Risks
Identify Critical Work for
Controlling the Risks
Establish Performance
Standards
Maintain Measurement and
Feedback Systems
Reinforce and Implement
Corrective Action
Improve and Update the
Process
FIGURE 3-3. Serious incident prevention process.
Figure 3-3 is a simplified diagram illustrating the relationship between
each element of the serious incident prevention process model. The chap-
ters that follow provide an in-depth discussion of the actions required to
successfully develop and implement each process element. Together, these
eight elements form a proactive, team-based process for effectively sustain-
ing serious incident-free operations.
References
1. B. O. Paul, “How Eastman Won the Malcolm Baldrige Award—One
Company’s Quality Journey,” Chemical Processing, January 1994, 38–43.
