Improving Operations Leaders’ PSM Decision Making

July 29, 2025

Operations and maintenance leaders are frequently confronted with challenging Process Safety Management (PSM) decisions. Too often, leaders do not..

Improving Process Safety Performance By Leveraging Management of Organizational Change

June 17, 2025

Management of Organizational Change (MOOC) addresses the process of managing any change in position or responsibility in an organization or any..

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,..

The Value of Maintaining RAGAGEP Documentation With a Digital Solution

August 5, 2024

While the use of engineering standards for designing and maintaining equipment pre-dates regulatory requirements, the industry agrees that the..

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..

Intelligent PHA Methodology: Through the Eyes of the Facilitator

October 31, 2020

Following the creation of OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) Standard 29 CFR 1910.119, the process industries continue working to improve Process..

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..

Mechanical Integrity is the Answer

March 19, 2020

Mechanical Integrity (MI) is a management system to ensure equipment is properly manufactured, installed, and maintained to ensure its reliability..

Control of Work – a Major Challenge in both Capital Projects and Continuous Operations

January 14, 2020

By David Drerup. Shutdowns, Turnarounds, and Outages (STOs) continue to be a major budget and time challenge. A significant contributing factor to..

Is Risk Management your Achilles’ Heel? How Intelligent Operations helps keep you moving forward

October 23, 2019

By David Drerup. In our previous article, we shared why Enterprise Loss Management is the connective tissue for Intelligent Operations. Risk..

Why MOC is part of the core fabric for Intelligent Operations

September 20, 2019

By David Drerup. One of the core framework components of Intelligent Operations is Management of Change (MOC). MOC is rather like a skeletal system..

ERM vs. ORM – What is the difference ? (Part 4)

August 19, 2019

In Part 1 of the series on ERM vs. ORM, we discussed the difference between Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM)...

ERM vs. ORM – What is the difference? (Part 3)

July 17, 2019

In Part 1 of the series on ERM vs. ORM, we discussed the difference between Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM)...

ERM vs. ORM – What is the difference? (Part 2)

June 5, 2019

In Part 1 of the series on ERM vs. ORM, we discussed the difference between Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM)...

Why Process Safety Performance Indicators Are Your Silver Lining

February 21, 2019

It's true that process safety incidents have the highest potential for significant injuries and deaths, environmental harm, property damage, business..

Risk-Based Process Safety and API 754... Is this the best practice for process safety?

June 14, 2018

Risk-Based Process Safety is a holistic approach that establishes a fully functional process safety program. This is in contrast to OSHA's CFR..

Improving Process Safety Culture

May 30, 2018

Process Safety Culture has been defined as "the combination of group values and behaviors that determine the manner in which process safety is..

Are Your Safety Resources the Safety Police?

April 25, 2018

While this is may be a provocative question, it deserves your attention. Ask yourself these two questions: Do the job descriptions of my safety..

Executive Order 13650

December 4, 2013

We wanted to make you aware of Executive Order 13650, which was published on Dec.3, 2013 as a result of the incident in West, Texas that will be..