Process Safety Management (PSM)
What is Process Safety Management?
Process Safety Management is a disciplined approach to preventing major accident events — well blowouts, fires, explosions, and toxic releases — that can result in catastrophic harm to people, assets, and the environment.
Unlike occupational safety, which addresses individual hazards during routine tasks, PSM focuses on the integrity of systems and barriers that prevent low-frequency, high-consequence events. EDC has integrated PSM principles into its IMS across all drilling and maintenance operations involving high-energy systems and major hazard potential.
CCPS Risk-Based Process Safety (RBPS)
EDC’s PSM program is structured around the 20 elements of the CCPS RBPS framework, organized under four foundational pillars.
EDC Process Safety Culture
Major accidents are preventable. Management is accountable for providing the systems, resources, and leadership behaviors that sustain barrier integrity. All personnel are empowered — and expected — to raise process safety concerns without hesitation.