Process Safety, Gorillas and AI
Process safety is usually approached as a technical discipline concerned with hazards analysis, vapor dispersion, equipment limits, and layers of protection.
BSEE Safety Alert No. 509: SEMS (Process Safety) Analysis
Miscommunication and Trapped Pressure Causes Injury During Valve Maintenance
BSEE (the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement) has published Safety Alert 509. It describes an incident in which a worker was injured.
In our post BSEE Safety Alert No. 509 at we analyze this event using the elements of SEMS (Safety and Environmental Management System).
The Value of Models
At our Process Safety Report site we published the post All models are wrong,
Primer: International Process Safety Regulations
This primer provides a concise and structured overview of how major accident hazards are regulated around the world. It explains the foundations of process safety regulation, compares national and regional systems, and highlights global trends that are reshaping expectations in the process and energy industries.
All models are wrong, but some are useful
When Models Fail: What Process Safety Can Learn from LLM Hallucination
The title of this post is taken from a
Education, Grace, and the Climate Crisis: An Augustinian View
This post at our Faith in a Changing Climate site explores two different approaches to the Age of Limits crises that we face.
Ian Sutton: Author
Ian Sutton is a chemical engineer with over 30 years of design and operating experience in the process industries. He provides process safety and risk management services, both onshore and offshore, including audits, incident investigation, hazards analyses, operating procedures and management of change.
