Process Safety with Trish & Traci

Episode 44: Lessons Learned From 1988 Shell Plant Explosion

A corroded vapor line caused the deadly incident. This episode talks about ways to stay ahead of corrosion concerns and how to better protect workers in case of unthinkable catastrophe.

 

Episode 43: ICYMI: Story Telling Bolsters Process Safety -- What Are Your Shell Middens?

Storytelling as a means of communication is a valuable tool to help people learn and retain important lessons. It is not about making things up but rather creating a memorable interaction.

Episode 42: Don’t Dismiss Process Safety Weak Signals — Find Your Platypus

Cognitive biases lead to process-safety events. By getting our brains used to looking for the unusual, we can better manage safety in our facilities. Trish Kerin, director of the IChemE Safety Centre, has staked her entire professional engineering career on talking about a weird animal as a way to try and help people understand and manage their weak signals. Transcript can be found at https://www.chemicalprocessing.com 

Podcast: Examining Ohio Train Derailment; Five-Year Anniversary of ExxonMobil Earthquake Incident

Trish and Traci discuss the response to the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment noting that environmental factors could be an issue for some time. Also, this episode unpacks how ExxonMobil was able to weather a hurricane just five miles from the epicenter without loss of containment. Access the full transcript at https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/podcasts/article/11354264/chemical-processing-podcasts

Tactics To Help First Responders During Process Safety Incidents

Insight into rescue challenges and solutions at chemical facilities.

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Podcast: Lessons Learned From 2022 Process-Safety Incidents

Turning tragedy into tools to help avoid future catastrophes will help keep workers safe.

Podcast: Hone Transferable Skills To Promote Safety

The workplace can be so much more for colleagues than simply doing a job and going home. If you want to succeed, you need to listen and communicate as it's the currency of safety.

Podcast: Avoid A Hero Complex During Safety Training

Practice, practice and more practice makes great emergency response but be careful of the message you are sending.

Podcast: Hydrogen Safety & The Energy Revolution

Unlike the oil industry, we can set the foundation of embedding inherently safer design into how we manage hydrogen going forward.

This can be a heated topic and it can get politicized. We need to make sure we're really applying inherently safer design principles when we pick the concept that we are going with, let alone do the engineering down the track

San Bruno Pipeline Explosion Lessons Learned

Grandfathered standards from the 1950s along with incorrect blueprints led to loss of life and reputation.