An integrated approach towards safety during change in the chemical process industry
conference paper
Increasing global competition and shareholder pressure cause major changes in the chemical industry. Over the last decade companies continuously improve their manpower efficiency. As a result most chemical plants of today can be regarded as lean plants. Plans to further reduce the number of staff are increasingly criticised by the personnel for safety reasons. This may cause strong resistance to further staff reductions. It is obvious that management and workers may have conflicting points of view (not only over safety issues), but also technologists and safety engineers may have specific points of view. With the TNO approach of Safe manpower change it is possible to tackle this issue with all process stakeholders concerned.
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TNO Identifier
274649
Source title
Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries 11th International Symposium Loss Prevention
Collation
12 p.
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