The past four decades in the chemical process industry have seen several watershed incidents which have been a source of many lessons for process safety and risk management. An important area of concern and debate is the role played by ‘human error’ as a cause of these incidents. Recent emphasis on the importance of the ‘softer’ factors of safety including human factors such as fatigue, stress, cognition etc. have attempted to demystify ‘human error’ by providing opportunities for improvement by offering systematic tools and framework to analyze systems to reduce the chance of these errors. A keen focus of this is Procedures; operating and non-routine procedures play an important role in daily operations both as a preventive and mitigative barrier in case of abnormal situations.