Process Safety with Trish and Traci

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Sharing insight from recent process-safety incidents to avoid accidents at chemical processing plants.

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Podcast cover for Process Safety with Trish & Traci. Episode is PHA Revalidation
How to avoid tick-box exercises and uncover hidden risks in facilities.
Feb. 17, 2026
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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...
Jan. 19, 2026
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Applying risk management principles helps Process Safety Engineer Trish Kerin navigate her first successful year of self-employment.
Jan. 7, 2026
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Hayley Little shares her LinkedIn project tracking global incidents quarterly, using AI and virtual reality innovation ideas.
Dec. 9, 2025
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Buncefield Explosion: 20 Years Later, Critical Lessons on Tank Storage Safety
The 2005 disaster resulted from redundant safety failures at a tank farm, highlighting the critical importance of monitoring weak signals.
Nov. 11, 2025
The late Trevor Kletz holding one of his many books on process safety.
Trevor Kletz revolutionized process safety through HAZOP advocacy, inherent safety principles, learning from accidents, and emphasizing design simplification over complex add-...
Oct. 14, 2025
Podcast: How Equipment Reliability Impacts Process Safety
Equipment reliability failures at Longford, BP and Buncefield highlight process safety lessons, maintenance KPIs and industry risks.
Sept. 9, 2025
Podcast: Challenge the Illusion of Safety
Chemical facilities miss critical safety insights by investigating the wrong incidents with the wrong questions. Learn from research that analyzed over 10,000 incidents across...
Aug. 12, 2025
Permit to Work Failures Prove Deadly
Permit-to-work failures killed 167 men on Piper Alpha. Learn critical safety lessons to prevent future disasters.
July 22, 2025
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Podcast: Lessons Learned from the Challenger Disaster
NASA normalized foam strikes over time, turning "lessons of failure into memories of success."
June 24, 2025
Process Safety: AI and Machine Learning Transform Compliance, But Humans Still Key
Risk assessment should still be a manual process, but AI can streamline data collection to enable sound engineering judgments.
May 27, 2025
Callide Power Station: 34 Minutes to Disaster
Switching operation triggers catastrophic power station explosion, proving that process safety principles apply beyond traditional chemical plants to any high-hazard environment...
May 13, 2025