Effective Operations Practices describes a complete framework to improve a company’s preparedness for abnormal situations. Each of the seven practice categories is represented by between 5-11 best practices or “guidelines” which are prioritized to assist companies as they move from basic to more advanced practices. This Guideline book is based on the Consortium’s review of 42 published and private Incident Investigations and 25 years of Consortium research. The detailed guidelines have been used successfully in member company site audits, and represent a comprehensive method to reduce the impact of abnormal situations on plant operations. Whereas the prior guidelines concentrate on the Process Control System, this Guideline book provides the broad overview of all seven practice categories.

The ASM Consortium delivered a CCPS webinar on "Managing Human Reliability: 25 years of the Abnormal Situation Management Study" on Aug 14, 2019. The webinar was well attended and well recieved by the attendees.

The ASM Consortiym will conduct a 60-minute webinar on Aug 14, 2PM eastern time, hosted by AIChE. The program will give an overview of the impact of human factors on operator performance and systematic safety based on the Abnormal Situation Management Consortium research. Join the live discussion on how to avoid the escalation of minor problems that could lead to larger incidents or production losses.

The first QRM of 2016 was successfully concluded at Honeywell’s Houston office. The QRM attendees, who are the operating company members and Honeywell customers, discussed the year’s new research proposals and reviewed the progress of the ongoing research. The Quarterly Review Meetings are a platform for the ASM Consortium members to share the benefits gained from the ASM practices and products, and to discuss new challenges faced in plant operations.

To create awareness about the serious nature of process safety incidents, the ASM Consortium continues to track and record incidents and accidents happening globally. In 2015, we recorded more than 1000 incidents on our website. The incidents list is not all inclusive but provides a comprehensive list of global incidents affecting process industries as reported in the media. The ASM Consortium has been archiving such incidents since 2008.

The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) group has come up with a Human Factors Guideline document specific to the pipeline industry, ‘Pipeline Human Factors Express Document’. The CSA group’s guideline document refers the ASM Consortium’s HMI guidelines document ‘Effective Console Operator HMI Design’. It also recommends referring the ASM Consortium’s guidelines ‘Effective Alarms management’ and ‘Effective procedural Practices’ for alarms and procedure management.