OT: Safety Procedures for Repair Maintenance & Construction Work

Gentlefolk (Ha!)

In trying to implement the above works in several different industries, I find I run foul of the safety guys more often than I am comfortable with.
A large part of the problem appears to be lack of a documented systematic procedure to deal with safety. I am confronted with Safe Work Permits, Hot Work Permits, Vessel Entry Permits, Job safety Analyses, Time Out Analyses, Isolation/Tag out Procedures, General Safety Requirements and the list goes on... and on.
What appears to be missing is a framework or decision tree to hang all these requirements on.
In addition there appears to be some confusion over what is a real safety procedure, and what is an accountability transfer procedure.

As I have a fear of death by red tape strangulation, I would appreciate if anyone could point me to a book or other reference which provides a concise,practical and expandable framework for developing a safety system suitable for dynamic (constantly changing) process industries with emphasis on solid/liquid (i.e. piping) processing.

I have briefly reviewed some of the petrochem documents but find them far too unwieldy for use in smaller industries.

Have started formulating a plan but would appreciate references before I go too far, in order to avoid reinventing the square wheel.

Thanks

Steve Received on Mon Sep 13 06:02:00 2004