Process Safety – Failure to Learn, Andrew Hopkins

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Process Safety – Failure to Learn, Andrew Hopkins Process Safety Process safety refers to the level of asset, technical, or equipment integrity. If we enforce the wearing of safety goggles, institute fail-safe employee procedures, and instill a constant awareness of dangerous or hazardous conditions in employees (personal safety), we still have not calculated process safety of the technical conditions in which they work. If you drive carefully, but your tires are low or worn, you are experiencing lower levels of process safety. If coach your children in safe driving habits but have not serviced the car properly you have not covered process safety. Andrew Hopkins makes the point that too many of us are dealing with new “normative” levels of degraded or high-risk mechanical malfunction or failure at work and in our own lives. When we shrug our shoulders and say something like, “it’s been acting funny lately”, or “if I joggle the handle it starts right up”, we are putting ourselves and others at risk in large industrial, light equipment handling, and corporate work environments. Some companies make a point of saying they have gone X time without an onsite injury. Have they calculated the near misses? These “almost-a-problem” occurrences are the new checklist for organizations dealing with long-term personnel and equipment/asset safety. In the long run, postponement and denial will cost lives and corporate profits. Shawnnichols.com Process Safety, Failure to Learn, Andrew Hopkins, asset integrity, technical integrity, equipment integrity, safety goggles, institute procedures, hazardous conditions, “normative” levels, large industrial, light equipment handling, corporate environments, near misses, denial, corporate profits

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