Grounding the Max 8: Ignoring Near Misses

“The failure of a layer of protection to prevent an incident is not the initiating cause of the incident.”  The United States just joined much of the world in grounding the Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9. The tipping point was not the crash of Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 into the Java Sea [...]

By |2019-03-14T16:47:23-05:00March 14th, 2019|Current Events, Process Safety|Comments Off on Grounding the Max 8: Ignoring Near Misses

Near Misses: Learning from Experience

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”  — Vernon Law When hit with the first winter storm of the season, everyone has to learn how to drive all over again.  In our community, freezing rain coats everything, including the roads, which makes driving especially treacherous.  A few years [...]

By |2019-01-10T14:29:40-06:00January 10th, 2019|Process Safety, Process Safety Management, Recommendations, Risk Assessment|Comments Off on Near Misses: Learning from Experience
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