• Trish Kerin, Stay Safe columnist

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    Director, IChemE Safety Centre

    Trish Kerin is an award-winning international expert and keynote speaker in process safety. She is the director of Lead Like Kerin Pty Ltd, and uses her unique story-telling skills to advance process safety practices at chemical facilities. Trish leverages her years of engineering and varied leadership experience to help organizations improve their process safety outcomes. 

    She has represented industry to many government bodies and has sat on the board of the Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority. She is a Chartered Engineer, registered Professional Process Safety Engineer, Fellow of IChemE and Engineers Australia. Trish also holds a diploma in OHS, a master of leadership and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Her recent book "The Platypus Philosophy" helps operators identify weak signals. 

    Her expertise has been recognized with the John A Brodie Medal (2015), the Trevor Kletz Merit Award (2018), Women in Safety Network’s Inaugural Leader of the Year (2022) and has been named a Superstar of STEM for 2023-2024 by Science and Technology Australia.

    Whether to fulfill genuine curiosity or help others along their own journey of discovery, the power of a well-phrased question is priceless.
    Closing one chapter helps Trish Kerin open another in process-safety entrepreneurship.
    Bhopal's tragedy reveals critical flaws in inherently unsafe industrial design. What can we learn from this?
    Transient operations occur when transitioning between operating states and are often the most hazardous periods in a chemical facility.
    What’s more powerful than knowledge? The world's leading safety centers are banding together to answer just that.
    Our tendency to underestimate the likelihood of rare occurrences can lead us to dismiss the possibility of process safety incidents.
    Understanding the two kinds of change, deliberate and creeping, will aid you in keeping your facility a safe place to work.
    It's crucial to operate within our professional boundaries and effectively mitigate risks when operating beyond them.
    Daily experiences vary, but key events hold lessons. Reflection is vital for learning and shaping success.
    Historical events and emotional connections can foster learning and help keep chemical facilities safe.
    A deep understanding of risks empowers us to make informed decisions
    Listen in as Trish Kerin employs the platypus to help us uncover weak signals -- those unexpected or unexplainable alarms, lead indicators that may be easily dismissed as false...
    Ensure your employees are trained to respond to an emergency so their response is second nature.
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    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 and Traci discuss the response to the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment noting that environmental factors will be an issue. Also, this episode unpacks how Exxon Mobil...
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    Insight into rescue challenges and solutions at chemical facilities.
    Storytelling provides a great way to communicate vital process-safety information.
    Focusing on changes often can provide faster evaluations and better results
    A comprehensive review has identified a number of widely applicable indicators