SHUTDOWNS AND MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE

摘要

In the process industry, various factors contribute to the maintenance and improvement of plant safety, while others convey risks that threaten it. The latter factors are often related to some sort of change and its management. The objective of change management has traditionally been to make sure that the post-change object is at least as safe as before. What is typically neglected in management of change systems is that safety must be ensured also while the change itself is executed, i.e. that the change-related work can be done safely. Much change-related work is carried out during plant shutdowns. This paper discusses management of change during shutdowns in the process industries based on experiences learnt during a recent Finnish study.