Hot Potato

“More often than not, to blame someone else is to play ‘hot potato’ with something that’s neither hot nor a potato.”  — Craig D. Lounsbrough Imagine you work at a plant that makes a polymer. One of the raw materials is the monomer and it is toxic, reactive, and flammable. It contains an inhibitor to [...]

By |2025-09-18T09:55:07-05:00September 18th, 2025|Procedures, Process Safety, Workplace Safety|Comments Off on Hot Potato

Process Safety Beyond the Fence Line

“I’m an actor… I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don’t ask a truck driver about his job.”  — James Gandolfini I’ve been struck recently by how much we don’t talk about process safety once the hazardous chemicals we make have been loaded and shipped. Process Hazard [...]

By |2025-01-16T15:45:52-06:00February 18th, 2021|Chemicals, PHA, Process Safety, Process Safety Management|Comments Off on Process Safety Beyond the Fence Line
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