2019 Pipeline SMS Annual Report

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Pipeline SMS 2019 Annual Report

The Pipeline Safety Management Systems Industry Team released their 2019 SMS Annual Report Final, reflecting on last year’s implementation progress and program highlights. The Industry Team serves to facilitate implementation of API Recommended Practice (RP) 1173, Pipeline Safety Management Systems (Pipeline SMS), among the liquids and natural gas pipeline industry. The annual report, which also includes an industry-wide survey, showed a majority of pipeline operators are using Pipeline SMS to improve their overall safety performance and reinforce internal safety culture.

Key Benefits

Comprehensively Manage Pipeline Safety Efforts

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Improve Pipeline Safety Performance

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Reduce Financial Risk with Safer Operations

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A Vital Tool for Safety

A Vital Tool for Safety

The Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle is central to every safety management system and a vital tool for continuous improvement of pipeline safety performance.

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A Vital Tool for Safety
Enable Continuous Improvement

Enable Continuous Improvement

A Pipeline SMS equips pipeline operators with the tools they need to continuously and comprehensively track and improve their safety performance.

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Insights

NTSB Turning to Voluntary Recommendations
NTSB Turning to Voluntary Recommendations
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Safety watchdogs at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are starting to favor recommending voluntary measures to industry rather than demanding regulatory changes, an agency pipeline official said.
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NTSB Turning to Voluntary Recommendations
PG&E’s New Center Focused on Natural Gas Safety, Innovation
PG&E’s New Center Focused on Natural Gas Safety, Innovation
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) recently opened a facility in San Francisco’s East Bay to develop the tools and test resources to bolster natural gas transportation and storage operations.
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PG&E’s New Center Focused on Natural Gas Safety, Innovation
Vectren’s Safety Journey from Concept to Reality
Vectren’s Safety Journey from Concept to Reality
The future for Vectren, now a CenterPoint company, is clear – the relentless pursuit of the safety of its workforce, assets and the public through the implementation of a safety management system (SMS).
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Vectren’s Safety Journey from Concept to Reality

“A Pipeline SMS is a systematic, deliberate approach to managing the safety of the workforce, the public and the company’s asset. […] It is all employees being empowered to raise a concern and taking action to mitigate a potential problem. It is continuously improving our processes, procedures, performance and culture. It is not a project with an implementation clock. It is an ever-evolving journey to zero incidents.”

- Nancy Conder, Director of Safety Management Systems and Quality, CenterPoint Energy, Houston, TX