Event Summary
This course provides a high-level overview of the 2nd Edition of API Recommended Practice 1173: Pipeline Safety Management Systems (PSMS), with a specific focus on the role of leaders in setting expectations, reinforcing safety culture, and enabling effective system performance.
Participants will explore the structure and intent of the revised recommended practice, including key updates since the original 2015 publication. The course highlights changes across the ten PSMS elements, explains the purpose of newly added annexes, and clarifies how Safety Culture is now embedded throughout the PSMS framework and driven by leadership behaviors, decisions, and accountability.
Leaders will also gain an understanding of the updated Safety Assurance approach, including how quality control, quality assurance, audits, and evaluations are integrated to support oversight and continuous improvement. Emphasis is placed on what leaders are expected to do differently—from governance and resource allocation to performance monitoring and cross-functional alignment—to ensure PSMS is actively practiced, not just documented.
Attendees will receive 2 Professional Development Hours (PDH) upon completion.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the purpose and structure of the 2nd Edition of API RP 1173 and its implications for executive and leadership oversight.
- Identify key updates from the 2015 edition and assess how those changes affect leadership responsibilities, governance, and decision-making.
- Demonstrate how leadership behaviors, expectations, and accountability mechanisms reinforce Safety Culture across all ten PSMS elements.
- Apply the Safety Assurance framework to evaluate how quality control, quality assurance, audits, and evaluations support informed oversight and continuous improvement.
- Define specific leadership actions—related to resources, performance monitoring, and cross-functional alignment—that enable PSMS to be actively practiced throughout the organization.
Who Should Attend
Top Management, Management and Recognized Leaders – emerging leaders, new hires to PSMS roles
Meet the Instructor
Mark Weesner
Process Performance Improvement Consultants (PPIC)
