Assurance Flashcards
Understand assurance processes for effective risk management
Understand the processes that leaders need to ensure are implemented and maintained in order to minimise risk
Understand the key process safety performance information, including leading and lagging indicators, that senior managers should routinely review and how to interpret such data
Understand the importance of audit and review
Know the safeguards used to reduce the risk including both typical
operational and engineering controls
Be aware of the hierarchy of protection levels – Inherent Safety, Prevention, Control and Mitigation
The features of an effective management structure and arrangements for delivering the policy
Awareness of the need for multiple, diverse and independent layers of protection and implications for their design and maintenance
Understand how human factors and organisational effectiveness influence process safety performance and have a basic understanding of the different strategies for managing the various kinds of human failures
