Using Metrics to Make Improvements in Management of Change Systems

Process Safety awareness continues to increase the importance of safely, responsibly, and reliably producing critical components to our global economy.  Today, nothing is more valuable than those things that can be applied at a site to improve the site’s process safety performance.  Management of Change (MOC) is a critical system, connecting to all other process safety elements.  MOC systems keep all other programs (procedures, training, process safety information, emergency response, etc.) current and pave the way for operational excellence in all elements.  MOC is unique to each site, and each site is unique in where it needs to improve.  This paper shows how a simple process can be implemented at any site to improve the site’s MOC system and performance.  This simple process to map potential errors, audit the MOC system for these errors, and use the error rates to target efforts for improvements will have significant impacts on the site’s execution of its MOC system as well as other elemental programs.