Good process safety in any organization requires specific knowledge, experience and skills. These building blocks of process safety lie, of course, mainly with your organization’s staff. So, how do ...

Many workplace safety conversations focus on occupational safety—reducing slips, trips, falls, and other personal injuries. But in high-hazard operations, that’s only half the story. Process safety is ...

Process safety can be approached in many different ways. This article provides an unconventional way of looking at process safety that ties together wide-ranging ideas from seemingly disparate fields.

Chances are, if you haven't utilized temporary employees in your workplace, you've interacted with or heard accounts from someone who has. The use of a variable workforce to minimize human capital ...

A steering committee will plan and execute a public, two-day workshop on the human factors of worker empowerment in the offshore oil industry in the context of process safety and the broader system in ...

The regulatory landscape for process industries in the United States became a little more onerous earlier this year. On February 21, 2020, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) ...

Can you please introduce yourself and tell us about your background in process safety testing? My name is John Weaver. I earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Penn State University many years ...

This course provides an overview of the fundamentals of process safety and identifies the essential systems and processes which require leadership and management throughout the lifecycle of high ...

It’s a food revolution in the making. But it’s not happening down on the farm. Instead, it’s happening in labs where cells taken from live chickens, cows, or other livestock are grown in bioreactors ...

Suggested Citation: "9 Important Messages and Potential Next Steps." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. The Human Factors of Process Safety and Worker Empowerment in the ...