Process Safety Management in the MOL Group

In year 2004 MOL has launched the "Safe Workplaces" project to improve the safety culture and to implement Group level comprehensive Process Safety Management (PSM) system.

Basic mission of the new PSM system is adaptation and implementation of a control system for all our hazardous processes, which is based on international experience and is suitable for managing all key factors, including human factor, which plays a significant role in unexpected HSE events. This is a clear operative commitment to MOL´s HSE Policy: “to reduce risk arising from our technologies, operations end products to a reasonably acceptable level”.

The aim of this article is to briefly present the PSM – a worldwide recognized safety management system for hazardous processes, the method of its implementation and functioning within the MOL Group, and also the first results and future direction of its development.

Vojtech Harča – Boris Cavrak