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Understanding how effectively process safety is managed helps reduce risk and protect operations. The Five Star Process Safety Management Audit from British Safety Council benchmarks performance and provides practical recommendations for improvement, delivered by experienced practitioners.
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Gain independent recognition for your process safety approach. Our audit identifies improvement opportunities and provides practical recommendations to reduce risk and strengthen performance. It also builds stakeholder confidence while supporting compliance and long-term operational resilience.
Limited visibility of your process safety performance can expose your organisation to avoidable risks. Increasing regulatory demands, operational complexity, and change make consistent management more challenging.
You may need to strengthen controls, review systems after incidents, or assess how effectively risks are managed. This audit provides the clarity and independent insight to identify gaps, strengthen controls, and support continuous improvement.
Our Five Star PSM Audit provides a comprehensive, end-to-end review of your process safety management systems - one of the most thorough assessments available. It can also combine Five Star and ISO-aligned requirements into a single, streamlined evaluation.
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Receive expert insights and clear feedback from your audit, supported by a closing review session. You’ll gain a comprehensive report with scores, recommendations, and next steps to drive improvement.
You’ll also receive a digital certificate, recognition within the Five Star scheme, and the opportunity to enter the prestigious Honour Awards (subject to achieving a 5-star rating). Ongoing support from a dedicated account manager ensures you can continue progressing with confidence.
Unlock measurable benefits across financial performance, reputation, operations, compliance, and customer outcomes.
Financial: Identify inefficiencies, reduce costs, minimise revenue loss, and avoid environmental penalties.
Reputational: Strengthen brand credibility, reduce negative exposure, and showcase progress to stakeholders, including in sustainability reporting.
Operational: Pinpoint gaps, manage business continuity risks, and enable internal benchmarking to drive improvement.
Legal & Regulatory: Identify compliance risks, avoid fines or prosecutions, and support supply chain obligations.
Customer/Product: Improve satisfaction and better meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Achieving a Five Star Audit opens the door to some of the most respected awards in health, safety, and environmental management. These awards are your chance to showcase what makes your organisation stand out. Using your audit as the foundation, the process highlights the strength of your systems, your people, and your culture. For organisations that truly live and breathe excellence, it’s an opportunity to gain global recognition for the standards you’ve worked hard to achieve.
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British Safety Council's PSM Audit has been developed in collaboration with globally recognised Process Safety Management (PSM) expert Ian Travers.
Ian offers unique insight into how regulators assess and verify risk management systems across the chemical, oil, gas and wider major hazard industries. Since moving into the private sector in 2015, he has worked with organisations in the energy, chemical and fuel sectors to strengthen their risk management and asset integrity practices.
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