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Objectives: Can process safety indicators provide insight and knowledge on both current and future safety levels of a process or company? And if so, which process indicators are eligible?. Method: The study is limited to original English and Dutch documents and articles in the scientific and professional literature. Results and discussion: Indicators for process safety can provide insight into safety levels of a process or company, but it is clear the 'silver bullet' has not yet been found. In secondary literature a difference is made between leading and lagging safety indicators.

We can consider an accident at work like an inverse problem, where the result is known, but we don’t know the causes, which led to the accident. At least as important is to find out the causes and development points, which are background of the good practices and the permanent changes of the courses of action. I have got two case examples in my presentation to explain the causes, which led to better course of action.