“Growing Focus on Organizational Safety Culture”
- In France, industrial sectors such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food processing, and energy are placing greater strategic importance on cultivating a robust safety culture to meet regulatory expectations and mitigate operational risks. This cultural shift prioritizes safety performance, leadership accountability, and proactive risk management at every organizational level
- For instance, TotalEnergies, one of France’s leading energy companies, has implemented comprehensive process safety frameworks across its refineries and chemical facilities, integrating real-time monitoring systems and employee training programs to embed safety as a core corporate value
- Increasing incidents related to process failures in Europe have caused regulatory authorities—such as INERIS (National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks) and DREAL (Regional Directorate for the Environment, Planning and Housing)—to emphasize audits, accident prevention plans (PPRT), and process hazard analysis (PHA)
- Companies are increasingly investing in digital technologies such as safety lifecycle management software, risk assessment platforms, and safety instrumented system (SIS) tools to enhance their safety protocols in line with EN and IEC standards
- The growing collaboration between safety service providers and industrial automation companies is facilitating integration of process safety practices with advanced control systems, leading to real-time data analysis and predictive risk mitigation
- Extensive employee training and safety awareness campaigns, especially in high-risk sectors, are gaining popularity as companies aim to shift from reactive to predictive and sustainable safety cultures.
