Episodes

Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Job Hazard Analysis Makeover: 5 Crucial Steps
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Safety experts share strategies to revitalize job hazard analysis programs. A piece of paper won’t save your life, but what’s on that paper could.
Trish and Traci, along with guest Valerie Stakes, discuss five steps to improve job hazard analysis (JHA) programs: honest program evaluation, form clarity, embedding JHAs in other documents, improved training and increasing visibility through collaboration.

Tuesday Jan 07, 2025
6 Process Safety Pearls of Wisdom
Tuesday Jan 07, 2025
Tuesday Jan 07, 2025
We’ve extracted a few gems from the 2024 season of Process Safety with Trish & Traci. Listen in as we discuss recurring accidents, emergency systems and organizational learning.

Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Process Safety Lessons from Bhopal 40 Years Later
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
This In Case You Missed It episode brings the written word to life. Today, Trish Kerin, Chemical Processing’s Stay Safe columnist, will read her column “Process Safety Lessons from Bhopal 40 Years Later”
Written By: Trish Kerin
Read By: Trish Kerin

Tuesday Dec 10, 2024
Butterflies of Bhopal -- Lessons Written in Blood
Tuesday Dec 10, 2024
Tuesday Dec 10, 2024
The Bhopal tragedy of 1984 at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in India killed thousands of people. The incident resulted from multiple safety failures: contaminated methyl isocyanate (MIC) storage, disabled safety systems and poor plant management. It led to significant changes in process safety, including the development of OSHA's Process Safety Management standard, the Center for Chemical Process Safety, and international safety directives like the Seveso protocol. Chemical engineer Ramin Abhari has created graphic novels to communicate the lessons learned, emphasizing the importance of inherently safer design, proper management of change and maintaining critical safety systems during plant decommissioning.

Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
What Have We Learned from the Pemex LPG Explosion in Mexico City?
Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
In this episode, Trish and Traci discuss the 1984 Mexico City LPG disaster in Mexico, where a pipe burst at a Pemex facility. This led to a massive explosion equivalent to five Hiroshima bombs. A combination of factors, including poor management of change, inadequate fireproofing and proximity to residential areas, resulted in 500 deaths. Key lessons included the importance of proper land use planning, risk assessment and fire protection.

Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Manage Transient Operations to Achieve Process Safety -- 6 Steps to Follow
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024

Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Process Safety: Knowledge Is Power – Or Is It?
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Welcome to the In Case You Missed It edition of Process Safety with Trish and Traci -- the podcast that aims to share insights from past incidents to help avoid future events. I’m Traci Purdum, EIC of Chemical Processing. Please subscribe to this free podcast on your favorite platform to continue learning with Trish & me in this series.
This In Case You Missed It episode brings the written word to life. Today, Trish Kerin, the director of IChemE Safety Centre, and Stay Safe columnist for Chemical Processing, will read her column “Knowledge Is Power – Or Is It?”
"Knowledge is power" — a phrase commonly attributed to Francis Bacon's 1597 work Meditationes Sacrae — has endured for centuries, echoed by influential figures like Thomas Jefferson. However, this adage, while impactful, may only scratch the surface of a deeper truth.
When it comes to process safety, we need people to understand a range of aspects, from the basis of design to the operating philosophy. In other words, we need them to have knowledge.
Written By: Trish Kerin
Read By: Trish Kerin

Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
Lessons Learned from the Explosion at the Phillips Petroleum Complex
Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
On the 35th anniversary of the deadly event we examine how routine maintenance can go horribly wrong.

Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Safety Lessons from the Deadly Molasses Flood of 1919
Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Welcome to the In Case You Missed It edition of Process Safety with Trish and Traci -- the podcast that aims to share insights from past incidents to help avoid future events. I’m Traci Purdum, EIC of Chemical Processing.
This In Case You Missed It episode brings the written word to life. Today, I will be reading a column by our editor at large Sean Ottewell “Safety Lessons from the Great Molasses Flood of 1919” -- Discover the catastrophic events of the Great Molasses Flood, where engineering failures led to a deadly wave of syrup in Boston’s North End.
Written By: Seán Ottewell, editor-at-large
Read By: Traci Purdum, editor-in-chief
Read Article HERE https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/voices/ottewell/article/55055791/safety-lessons-from-the-great-molasses-flood-of-1919

Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Process Safety Meets Nancy Drew, James Bond and MacGyver
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
In this episode of Process Safety with Trish and Traci we interview Fiona Erskine, an engineer and crime novelist who has a passion for process safety. Fiona discusses balancing her engineering career with writing and how she uses her novels to educate readers about process safety and engineering concepts. Her Dr. Jaq Silver series combines thrilling plots with accurate technical details, making complex topics accessible to non-experts.