Stay Safe Column

Trish Kerin uses her unique story telling skills to advance process safety practices at chemical facilities.  

Process Safety: Meet Me Under the Clocks

A reflection on how elegant, simple solutions often create the strongest and most reliable outcomes, both in everyday life and in process safety.

Calculate Risk to Capture Reward

Applying risk management principles helps Process Safety Engineer Trish Kerin navigate her first successful year of self-employment.

Bird's-eye view prevents Process Safety groundings

Effective risk assessment requires current competency, comprehensive data and systems thinking, but don’t forget to look straight ahead, too.

Aborted landing reveals Critical Lessons in Safety communications

Immediate communication matters in safety situations, even when complete information isn’t yet available to share.

Process Safety: The dangers of blindly following instructions

Workers who challenge flawed procedures can improve safety and production.

Process Safety: Serve up the Tim Tam Slam

Mastering Tim Tam timing mirrors process safety’s critical risk-reward balance. Get it right and you’ll reap rewards.

Process Safety: Wield questions to Learn and Teach

Whether to fulfil genuine curiosity or help others along their own journey of discovery, the power of a well-phrased question is priceless.

An Engineer's Process Safety Evolution

Closing one chapter helps Trish Kerin open another in process-safety entrepreneurship.

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