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Welcome to Sutton Technical Books. We provide books, ebooks, videos, operational excellence assessments and safety moments for managers, engineers and executives in the process and energy industries — covering chemicals, oil refining, offshore oil and gas and pipelines. Our goal is to provide practical information that will help you design and operate facilities that are safe, efficient and in compliance with rules and regulations.


Friday, April 20th 2018.

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Tuesday, April 17th 2018. Ashland, VA

 

Operational Excellence Assessment system

We have had a good response to our test version of the Operational Excellence Assessments system.

We have now closed down this release. If you did review the test product please don’t forget to let us know why you think. You can do this by responding to the following questions at our Contacts page.

  • Is the Excel-based system easy to use and to navigate?
  • Are the questions detailed enough?
  • Is the guidance and commentary useful?
  • Should it be expanded?
  • Do you think that the use of a system like this could help your management improve the safety and operability of your facility?

Thank you.

The following documents are still directly available.

  • The Operational Excellence User Guide. This document tells you how to use this Excel-based system.
  • A 12 page White Paper Assessing Operational Excellence that provides the background to this system.
  • A 22 minute video Introduction to Operational Excellence Assessments. 

Tuesday, April 3rd 2018. Ashland, VA

Operational Excellence Assessment system

We are pleased to announce the release of a test version of our Operational Excellence Assessment system. Feel free to download this version of the system from our storefront. You will be asked to provide an email address, but not a credit card number because this test version is free. All that you need is a copy of Microsoft Excel and about 10 minutes of time.


Monday, April 2nd 2018. Ashland, VA

Our web server has just undergone a major security upgrade. During this important process we have had accessibility problems at the site. We regret any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Operational Excellence Assessment

Operational Excellence Assessment system

Our Operational Excellence Assessment system provides hundreds of questions that allow you to Assess (as distinct from Audit) the quality of your operational and safety management systems. The only software that you need is a current version of Microsoft Excel.

The system is organized into the 18 categories shown below.

  1. Culture
  2. Compliance and Standards
  3. Risk Analysis
  4. Safety in Design
  5. Information Management
  6. Hazard Identification
  7. Written Procedures
  8. Safe Work Practices
  9. Asset Integrity/Reliability
  10. Training and Performance
  11. Management of Change
  12. Operations
  13. Maintenance
  14. Human Factors/Health
  15. Emergency Response
  16. Incident Investigation
  17. Operational Readiness / Pre-Startup Safety Review
  18. Industries

Safety Moments

Safety Moment #49: The Safety Manual
Safety Moment #40: The Missing Operating Procedure
Safety Moment #39: Response to a Threatening Call
Safety Moment #34: The Purloined Letter
Safety Moment #33: Bang, Bang

Articles

Once upon a time . . .
Behavior-Based Safety
Lowest Level of Risk (BSEE)
Risky Matrices
Event Tree Analysis

Topics

Equipment and Piping
Industries
Operations
Process Safety Management
Risk
Safety

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