TÜV Rheinland’s consultants are trained and extensively experienced in auditing arrangements for Process Safety Management (PSM).
We have used auditing as a tool for developing and improving process safety management systems, pragmatically establishing arrangements that provide a firm foundation for regulatory compliance and process safety performance improvement based on world-class practices.
Our auditing capability is founded upon a comprehensive suite of audit protocols based on those originally developed within ICI for its management level audits against its 'white book' SHE management system. The audit prompts cover a distillation of the global best practices in safety management recognized within ICI and extended to take due account of the requirements of the US OSHA standard for PSM, the requirements of the European 'Seveso III’ directive, and a broad experience of their application in conducting PSM audits of a variety of different companies, each with their own examples of good practice. TÜV Rheinland can draw on process safety experience from a wide range of industries, including oil & gas, chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, plus iron & steel.
TÜV Rheinland’s process safety assessment toolkit, ProSAT, has been developed for process safety auditors to use as an aid, both on a technical level as well as to facilitate the auditing process of operating organisations. Developed by TÜV Rheinland, the toolkit is used to assist process safety auditing carried out by TÜV Rheinland specialists.
