Our Quarter 1 Theme for 2025 is Preventing Major Accidents – a time in which we turn our attention to understanding of Major Accident Hazards (MAHs) and their role in maintaining safe operations. How MAH risk factors are managed can help prevent major incidents and ultimately save lives.
A MAH is a source of danger that has the potential to cause a major incident, whether that involves multiple fatalities and/or significant damage to plant, equipment, or the environment.
Go to the Preventing Major Accidents page and find the collated resources and collateral to enable you to focus on this topic with your team, including everything you need to facilitate a conversation with your team, including Learning Event Bulletins, Safety Alerts and Toolboxes.
These resources will help you and your team to:
- Appreciate how routine activities interact with the barriers which keep us all safe,
- Be better equipped to recognise when a barrier has been impaired and to know what action to take to report it,
- Understand how everyone’s personal decisions affect the risk of major accidents.
The Process Safety Working Group (PSWG) at Safer Together has developed a range of resources that address the prevention of major incidents, including Process Safety Awareness Campaign materials designed to help initiate and improve conversations with your team about process safety.
These resources are always available to HSERs from our member companies to utilise.
A great place to start is by watching the following process safety awareness video ‘We All Have a Part to Play’, designed by our PSWG to help improve conversations with teams about process safety.
The full Process Safety Awareness video series is available here.
Contain It
Major Accident Hazard Awareness Training is available via the Contain It program. The course is an interactive and practical training course for energy and resources personnel in WA/NT to experience the first-hand effects of hydrocarbon releases in a safe and controlled environment.
The aim of this course is to increase awareness of the process safety hazards within Major Hazardous Facilities. Training will provide an overview of major accidents, the mechanisms and impacts of process safety releases; and an individual’s role in preventing major accidents.
Members can also access Quarter 1 materials from our international collaboration partners Step Change in Safety (UK) and Always Safe (Norway).
For more information, email: [email protected].