Blogs

The purpose of this blog is to encourage discussion as to the future of Process Safety Management – both onshore and offshore. To date we have published the following posts in three different categories.

Energy Limitations

Our first series of posts is to do with declining oil supplies, and what this could mean for process safety professionals. Posts in that series are:

• 2013-08-20 PSM and the Supply of Oil
• 2013-08-27 The Hubbert Curve
• 2012-09-03 When you come to a fork in the road . . . take it
• 2013-09-10 Nothing Left Over
• 2013-09-17 The Exponential Function

Complex Systems Fail in Complex Ways

The second set of posts is based on the recognition that modern process facilities are extraordinarily complex and sophisticated. Yet many of our established analytical techniques struggle to cope with such complexity.

• 2013-09-24 Black Swans and Bow Ties
• 2013-10-01 Let’s not make common cause
• 2013-10-08 “Double contingency doesn’t count, you know”
• 2013-10-15 The Two Second Rule
• 2013-10-22 Risky Matrices 

Culture

The third set of posts provides some thoughts to do with Culture and Process Safety Management.