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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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5:52

Calculate Risk to Capture Reward

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2026/01/27

Applying risk management principles helps Process Safety Engineer Trish Kerin navigate her first successful year of self-employment. Listen in as Trish brings her January column to life. You can read her column here.

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23:45

Challenger Disaster 40 Years Later: The Deadly Cost...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2026/01/13

Engineers couldn't prove danger, so managers launched anyway. Seven astronauts died when O-rings failed in freezing temperatures. Apply the lessons learned to help avoid future incidents.Three Key Takeaways: Reverse the burden of proof: Require positive proof that something is safe before proceeding, rather than forcing engineers to prove it's unsafe. Simplify safety communication: Complex data failed to convince decision-makers, but a simple demonstration (O-ring in ice water) made the danger

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6:28

Bird’s-Eye View Prevents Process Safety Groundings

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/12/23

This In Case You Missed It episode brings the written word to life. Today, Trish Kerin, the director of Lead Like Kerin, and Stay Safe columnist for Chemical Processing, will read her column "Bird’s-Eye View Prevents Process Safety Groundings," which was published to chemicalprocessing.com on Dec. 17, 2025.

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34:08

Young Engineer Champions Process Safety Via Social Media

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/12/09

In this year-end episode, hosts Trish Kerin and Traci Purdum welcome Hayley Little, a U.K.-based process safety engineer who tracks quarterly catastrophic incidents on LinkedIn. The discussion explores origin stories in process safety, the critical gap in fundamental safety knowledge outside petrochemical industries, and the alarming frequency of preventable incidents in lower-hazard sectors. They discuss innovative solutions including AI tools, virtual reality training and social media outreach to

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22:33

Platypus, Duck or Weak Signal? Process Safety Lessons...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/11/25

This In Case You Missed It episode brings the written word to life. Today, Trish Kerin, the director of Lead Like Kerin, and Stay Safe columnist for Chemical Processing, will read the first few chapters from her book “The Platypus Philosophy – how to identify and manage weak signals” This book explores weak signals and focuses on how to identify and manage them to prevent incidents. It uses fun storytelling about the unique platypus as a technique to explain complex concepts and tools. You can

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24:13

Buncefield Explosion: 20 Years Later, Critical...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/11/11

The Buncefield explosion occurred when a gasoline storage tank overfilled after both its level gauge and independent high-level switch failed. Gasoline vapor formed a massive cloud that ignited, causing significant damage to surrounding business parks. Fortunately, the Sunday morning timing prevented fatalities, though 43 injuries occurred. The incident revealed critical gaps in safety control verification, testing procedures, and maintenance regimes. Twenty years later, the disaster emphasizes the

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5:02

Aborted Landing Reveals Critical Lessons in Safety...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/10/28

In this episode, Trish Kerin reads her most recent column, which highlights the importance of immediate communication in safety situations, even when complete information isn't yet available to share.You can read the column here.

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25:28

Henry David Thoreau of Process Safety – Trevor Kletz

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/10/14

Trevor Kletz revolutionized process safety through HAZOP advocacy, inherent safety principles, learning from accidents, and emphasizing design simplification over complex add-ons. In this episode, Trish & Traci discuss his many contributions to the world of process safety.

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17:57

Hidden Hazards: 10 Common PHA Oversights

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/09/23

When OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard took effect in 1992, it promised a new era of systematic hazard identification. Three decades later, process safety professionals are still witnessing the same critical oversights repeatedly compromising facility safety—oversights that have contributed to near misses, and far worse, major incidents.Editor-in-Chief Traci Purdum reads an article from Felicia Miller, senior principal engineer at ABSG Consulting and Darshankumar Lakhani, senior

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32:44

How Equipment Reliability Impacts Process Safety

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/09/09

This episode explores the critical role of equipment reliability in chemical processing, focusing on three major incidents: Longford, BP Texas City and Buncefield. Trish highlights how faulty instrumentation, poor maintenance and overlooked management of change led to catastrophic failures, fatalities and environmental impacts. The discussion emphasizes safety-critical elements, maintenance KPIs and the importance of accurate instrumentation.

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06:02

Process Safety: The Dangers of Blindly Following...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/08/26

Workers who challenge flawed procedures can improve safety and production. In this episode, Trish Kerin reads her latest column, which details how a trip to Tasmania with her sister turned getting lost into a process safety lesson of not blindly following procedures. Enjoy as our favorite Australian safety guru guides you through the Bass Strait to Cataract Gorge.

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48:54

Challenge the Illusion of Safety

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/08/12

In this episode, Trish Kerin and Traci Purdum discuss process safety insights with Alex Fernando and Warren Smith from Incident Analytics. Their research analyzed over 10,000 incidents across 12 countries and multiple high-risk industries.Key findings include that organizations often misclassify serious incidents, missing critical learning opportunities. Many safety controls are "difficult" or "unworkable" in practice, with workers adapting procedures to get jobs done despite inadequate equipment

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25:40

Lessons From Deadly Permit-to-Work Failures

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/07/15

This episode revisits the critical topic of permit-to-work systems, exploring how these systems manage the safe transfer of equipment ownership between operations and maintenance teams. Trish & Traci discuss key elements, different permit types, common failures, and the tragic Piper Alpha disaster.

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05:33

Process Safety: Serve Up the Tim Tam Slam

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/07/08

Mastering Tim Tam timing mirrors process safety's critical risk-reward balance. Get it right and you’ll reap rewards.As the bickie became gooey in my fingers, I knew the moment was now — time to slam that Tim Tam. A Tim Tam is an Australian bickie — or cookie, to those of you in the U.S. It was created in 1964 by Arnott’s and is an iconic Aussie treat. It consists of two rectangular bickies with a flavored cream filling that is coated in chocolate. A Tim Tam Slam is a unique way to consume the

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36:47

Lessons Learned from the Columbia Disaster

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/06/24

This 100th episode of "Process Safety With Trish and Traci" examines the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster through the lens of due diligence. Columbia disintegrated during re-entry after foam debris damaged heat shield tiles during launch. The podcast explores how NASA normalized foam strikes over time, turning "lessons of failure into memories of success." Multiple intervention opportunities were missed due to inadequate resources, poor communication, and cultural barriers.

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12:24

Taming Static Electricity in Glass-Lined Reactors

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/06/10

On a sunny summer day in 2007 near Wichita, Kansas, a tanker truck was offloading naphthalene into a stainless-steel tank at a solvent tank farm when the container spontaneously ignited, catching fire and exploding, shooting projectiles in the air. This led to the evacuation of thousands in a nearby community. While there were no casualties, the explosion destroyed the entire storage facility, luckily not causing any injuries or fatalities in the nearby community. An investigation determined that

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25:43

AI and Machine Learning Transform Compliance, But...

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/05/27

Risk assessment should still be a manual process, but AI can streamline data collection to enable sound engineering judgments.In this episode, Trish and Traci welcome guest Dheerajkumar Narang, whose research examines how AI and machine learning can enhance process safety compliance. Traditional compliance methods are time-consuming and fragmented across different systems, while AI can automate data collection, identify leading indicators and predict compliance outcomes. Key challenges include

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37:19

Callide Power Station: 34 Minutes to Disaster

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/05/13

In this episode, Trish and Traci discuss the catastrophic failure at Queensland's Callide Power Station C4 on May 25, 2021, which caused power outages for 470,000 people. During a routine switching operation to replace DC battery systems, a voltage drop was misinterpreted as an AC fault, triggering a cascading failure. Both AC and DC systems failed, leaving the turbine without lubrication while it continued spinning backwards at 3,000 RPM.The incident demonstrates that process safety principles

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06:25

Process Safety: Wield Questions to Learn and Teach

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/04/29

This In Case You Missed It episode brings the written word to life. Today, Trish Kerin, the director of Lead Like Kerin, and Stay Safe columnist for Chemical Processing, will read her column “Wield Questions to Learn and Teach” “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.” – A proverb made modern by Eugene O’Neill. Have you ever asked a question at work and were surprised by the answer? Over the course of my career, this has happened many times. Sometimes, the answer was genuinely

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27:06

Deadly Lessons from BP Disasters

Process Safety with Trish & Traci ·

2025/04/15

Remembering the human toll of Texas City and Deepwater Horizon and applying those lessons learned can prevent similar tragedies.In this episode, Trish and Traci discuss two major BP incidents: the 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion that killed 15 workers when an overfilled tower created a geyser of hot raffinate that ignited, and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and caused the largest U.S. marine oil spill when cement failed to properly seal a well. Key factors included

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