Key Components of Operational Discipline

November 14, 2025

Conduct of Operations (CoO)—the formal, structured, and systematic process of managing operations to ensure safe, consistent, and reliable..

Pre-Startup Safety Reviews

August 9, 2024

While tools are often conceived to perform a single function – a hammer to drive a nail or a saw to cut wood – they can, with time and ingenuity,..

Process Safety Information

March 4, 2024

While most industries outside of the hydrocarbon industry are not process safety-centric, the underlying premise of preventing significant incidents..

Pre-Startup Safety Reviews – More than an MOC Tool

November 11, 2020

Companies have conducted Pre-Startup Safety Reviews (PSSRs) as part of Management of Change (MOC) activities for a long time. While required by law..

How Do MOC and Conduct of Operations Drive a Connected Workforce Environment? (Part 2)

June 26, 2020

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about an operating environment where all of the information, history, and procedures needed to safely and..

How Do MOC and Conduct of Operations Drive a Connected Workforce Environment? (Part 1)

June 26, 2020

As stated in a previous post, Management of Change (MOC) is a core foundational element for managing operational risk well. In fact, MOC touches..

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