Toward Operational Excellence 4.0 – Revisited 2025

December 23, 2025

By Joe Perino, former LNS Research analyst Nearly five years ago, I wrote an article entitled “Toward Operational Excellence 4.0 (OE 4.0).” In it, I..

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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