Key Messages
Alarm Management Background
ISU
KPI
100
The primary reason for Alarm Management
What is Process Safety or Process Safety Basic Rqmts#9
100
This term for "Alarm rates exceeding 10 alarms per ten minutes" was a contributing alarm management factor to the 3 Mile island incident.
What is an "Alarm Flood"
100
Source that can be used to find corrective actions for every alarm
What is “Alarm Help”, “Alarm Catalogue”, “Alarm Database”, “Variable Table”
100
The key alarm management KPI visible at Marvin Odum level.
What is “Alarms per Hour?”
200
To make every alarm ____________ is the primary goal of Alarm Management.
What is "meaningful".
200
Shell’s 11 mandatory standards to prevent recurrence of known major process safety incidents.
What are “Process Safety Basic Requirements?”
200
The priority level for notification of a platform trip
What is an "Alert"
200
The average alarm frequency target value for the key alarm management KPI.
What is “less than 12 alarms per hour?”
300
An alarm is only an alarm if ____________
"there is a defined operator action to prevent an impact", "an operator can intervene", "requires operator action"
300
Contributing Alarm Management factor to the BP Texas City disaster.
What are “Disabled Alarms”?
300
This is one of two primary requirements that should normally be met before deciding whether or not an alarm should require a priority?
What is “Operator Action” or what is “Abnormal Event”?
300
Aside from alarms per hour, this is one of two other KPIs reported at the OM level.
What is "set point change rate" or "number of standing alarms"?
400
Ten Minutes
How much time should a person be given to so as to ensure a 90% probability of correct response?
500
Zero
What would be an ideal number of alarms received per hour or the ideal number of standing alarms on the alarm summary page
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