In addition, there is a Walk the Line community where members share their programs and how they got started with others looking to get a program off the ground. Then they would look to the Walk the Line toolbox to help fill those gaps. A site new to Walk the Line would first evaluate their metrics and identify opportunities for improvement. LS: Through our digital safety portal, members can browse blinded data to evaluate how their process safety record compares with industry peers, and then identify areas for improvement and potential resources to help address their specific needs. And soon, the toolbox will expand to include micro-learning videos on topics like shift handovers, and practice-sharing posters so that regardless of where employees are on site, they’ll see reminders to “walk the line.” When we all share, we all improve. To date, there are over 94 practices, trainings, exercises, presentations and videos available to Walk the Line participants. We were able to take the basics from that program and add insights and practices from other companies to create a comprehensive toolbox of resources. Even the program itself is based on an initiative spearheaded by Jerry Forest, senior director of process safety at Celanese. Can you walk us through how Walk the Line works?ĪK: Walk the Line was developed for industry by industry, which means that all of the tools have been used by a site or company. If they don’t, they need to “walk the line.” Through its resource library and industry-wide practice sharing, Walk the Line upholds a culture of consistency where errors are reduced and operators and front-line supervisors are supported in operational discipline and readiness. Those mistakes can be avoided, so we took it upon ourselves to address the industry-wide challenge together.Īlyse Keller: At its core, the program reinforces the fundamental responsibility of operators to know with 100 percent certainty where a material will flow between any two points in a process unit. Industry metrics at the time showed that about 30 percent of process safety events occurred for one of the following reasons: valves or “bleeders” being left open during equipment commissioning, draining, and loading/unloading activities lapses in operational readiness and line-up errors. instances where accidental product releases may occur because valves and pipes aren't properly sealed or closed within a unit). Lara Swett: Walk the Line (WTL) is a process safety practice sharing program AFPM launched in 2015 to help prevent open-ended lines and line-up errors at industrial facilities like refineries and petrochemical plants (e.g. What is Walk the Line and how did it get started? In advance of the AFPM Summit, AFPM Vice President of Technical and Safety Programs Lara Swett and Technical Operations Program Leader Alyse Keller talk about one of AFPM’s premier safety programs, Walk the Line.
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