工艺安全

• Process safety experts conduct regular safety reviews
• Lower safety incident rate as the result of the Operational Integrity Program

Process safety is a core part of ensuring safe, effective, and sustainable production. We adhere to stringent safety standards in the planning, construction and operation of our plants around the world. Our global guidelines provide the framework for the safe construction and operation of our plants to guarantee the safety of people and the environment. The safety concept developed by our experts for each plant considers the key aspects of safety, health, and environmental protection – from the initial design of plants to the end of the production phase – and sets out specific safety measures. Regular implementation checks are carried out to ensure that all processes comply with the safety concept and are always up-to-date.

Extensive mitigation plans are well-designed, particularly for hazardous materials in storage, reactivity, and physical processing in operations, as well as energy management. To ensure the highest level of safety at our plants across their entire lifecycles, we make sure that our protection concepts, safety reviews and resulting safety measures are carried out in all our plants at timely intervals based on potential risks. Our plants’ safety and security concepts are updated on a regular basis by taking new technologies and regulatory developments into account. In 2022, we began monitoring and assessing newly published process safety norms and standards on a monthly basis to guarantee that all BASF locations in China fulfill local requirements.

Process safety incidents (PSIs) are a critical performance indicator. BASF’s global target is to reduce the safety incident rate to less than 0.1 per 200,000 working hours by 2025. The PSI rate in Greater China was reduced to 0.01 per 200,000 working hours (2021: 0.03) in 2022. This achievement can be attributed to the Operational Integrity Program, which focuses on the continued improvement of incident management by investigating all safety incidents, analyzing root causes, and implementing adjustments as needed.

To continuously improve process safety performance, a number of initiativeswere taken in China, including the conduct of the Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) review, the Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR), and the Responsible Care^® audit. To further enhance the expertise of our colleagues, custom-made process safety workshops and training on topics such as Management of Change (MOC), PSSR and local regulation updates were organized. We continue to adopt a globally uniform strategy to manage changes in regulatory requirements in order to constantly improve the identification and control of risks at plants.