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Process Safety with Trish & Traci

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Sharing insight from recent process-safety incidents to avoid accidents at chemical processing plants.

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22:10

How To Make Money And Save Lives Via Process Safety

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2022/02/02

Good process safety means good reliability … good reliability means good productivity … good productivity is what makes us money. Sometimes you have to talk about the bottom line in order to get buy-in for process-safety initiatives.

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20:21

Podcast: 2021 Process Safety Incidents Reveal...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2021/12/20

A review of 2021’s process-safety incidents points out that there's nothing new in any of these events; there's no new technology pathway, there's no new chemical reaction or law of chemistry or physics. That means these are all preventable incidents. What are you doing at your facilities to understand these hazards?

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22:29

How To Avoid Dumb Ways To Die

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2021/11/30

If you're relying on humans getting it right every time, you're going to have an incident. The key is making sure your systems are more resilient to humans making a mistake

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21:35

New Tool In Process Hazard Analysis: Delta HAZOP

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2021/10/08

The chemical industry has been doing risk assessment the same way for quite some time. This new method focuses on subtle changes, which can lead to degradation of design safeguards.

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24:26

Could Deepwater Horizon Have Been Prevented?

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2021/08/23

IChemE’s Trish Kerin ponders that $64,000 question as she and Traci Purdum look back at lessons learned from the Montara oil field incident in 2009.

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24:00

Lessons Learned From Seveso -- One Of the Biggest...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2021/07/05

Was the Seveso accident, which released dioxin in the air and was named by Time magazine as one of the top manmade environmental disasters, a black swan event? Not likely, according to Trish Kerin, director of the IChemE Safety Centre. On the 45th anniversary of this catastrophic event, we take a look at lessons learned.

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39:50

Cybersecurity Breach Ripple Effect

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2021/06/09

A money-grab hack prompted executive orders to get cybersecurity under control at firms supplying the government. Private companies will have to comply even if they aren’t the primary contractor.

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36:18

The Cost Of Climate Change On Process Safety

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2021/04/12

Preparing for the worst is in a facility’s best interest. Indeed, in 2020 there were over 800 natural and man-made disasters that resulted in $4.5 trillion in damages. This episode of Process Safety with Trish & Traci features Dale Sands, an expert in risk reduction and resiliency.

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26:58

Lessons Learned From The Fukushima Disaster 10 Years...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2021/03/09

The catastrophic incident at the Fukushima power plant 10 years ago started long before an earthquake and tsunami wiped out power and caused three reactor meltdowns -- the real problem started in 1967 when the plant was built in a tsunami-prone area. The lessons learned from this disaster can save others.

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23:28

Focus On The Right Process Safety Indicators

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2021/01/24

Advertising so many days since the last injury can do more harm than good at a facility. The absence of an incident doesn't mean the presence of safety. Focusing on the correct indicators can help you intervene and potentially change the future. In this episode, Trish & Traci prove when the measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure.

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24:36

Importance Of Partnering With First Responders

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2020/12/04

When disaster strikes, first responders already have a tough job ahead of them. Don’t put them in further danger by failing to effectively communicate what your facility does and what hazardous substances are stored there.

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23:43

How to apply process safety during the concept-select...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2020/11/11

It starts with the idea of the inherently safer design principle and that involves elimination. You can take out one hazard but are you increasing the presence of other hazards? What's better? What's worse? This is a judgment call that needs to be made on an engineering basis. This episode reiterates that process safety requires constant vigilance. The challenge is when it works well, nothing goes wrong. People then question if you really need to spend all that money on safety efforts. The reason

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27:01

Lessons Learned From The Longford Gas Explosion That...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2020/09/30

A heat exchanger, management of change issues and a gap in knowledge led to a catastrophic incident. All of these were preventable mistakes. When will we learn?

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25:16

How do you ensure your safety message is understood...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2020/09/01

In this episode Trish and Traci speak with podcast guest Valerie Stakes, a bilingual safety trainer based in San Diego, California. The trio conclude companies need to ensure that communications are understandable because process safety doesn't give you second chances.

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23:58

Catastrophe At The Hands Of Legacy Design Issues

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2020/08/04

To mark the 15th anniversary of the Mumbai High North Platform disaster, Trish and Traci discussed what happened that day in 2005. This incident started off as a rather mundane issue -- the cook at the site was injured and needed evacuation. A series of unfortunate events, precipitated by weather conditions, led to the deaths of 22 people. All said, 362 people needed to be rescued that day. The major lesson learned: you have to be creative when thinking about what could go wrong.

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23:57

Transporting Dangerous Cargo Via Train -- Is It The...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2020/07/01

Trains carrying dangerous cargo like crude oil -- is it the right way to go? Applying process safety principles like inherently safer design could prevent derailments, explosions and deaths. In this episode, Trish & Traci examine the recent uptick in crude oil derailments and what could be done to prevent them.

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35:26

Mistakes Make Good Leaders

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2020/06/19

In this episode of Process Safety with Trish & Traci, we learn how Trish landed in the role of director of the IChemE Safety Centre. The mishaps and safety incidents she was involved in led to her passion to ensure process-safety standards were practiced all over the world. It's a dream job that began with an aviation fueling accident.

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29:38

How the Chemical Industry is Adjusting to the New Norm

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2020/06/02

Having to accommodate social distancing practices along with other precautions to ensure workers are safe is a challenge but not insurmountable. Trish & Traci discuss new ways to do old things

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18:38

Take Advantage Of Downtime To Ramp Up Process Safety

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2020/05/07

You can effectively address your workforce if you factor in how you will interact with the attendees, how you will get their feedback, how you will encourage discussion amongst them. This episode of Process Safety With Trish & Traci uncovers best practices for presenting and attending safety training virtually.

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23:39

What have we learned from significant incidents?

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2020/04/17

This podcast takes a look at major process safety incidents -- West Texas, Deepwater Horizon and others. Trish Kerin, director of IChemE Safety Centre, and Traci Purdum, senior editor with Chemical Processing, discuss what happened and what was learned.

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