Amplify Your Process Safety

In this episode, Wesley and Rob cover process safety leading and lagging indicators. They cover what these metrics are, why they're important for your organization, and some key resources you can turn to in order to learn more. 

API Recommended Practice 754 - Process Safety Performance Indicators For The Refining And Petrochemical Industries

IOGP Report 456 – Process safety – recommended practice on key performance indicators

CCPS Process Safety Leading and Lagging Metrics

In this episode, Rob, Wesley, and Elena team up to talk about operator training. You'll learn what the PSM standard requires, how your operating procedures affect the quality of your training program, and some tips to improve your training program and its effectiveness, including the use of a competency matrix (not to be confused with The Matrix, though we do give a shout out to Keanu Reeves). Join us for a fun, informative episode covering all the dos and don'ts you need to know when it comes to operator training. 

Who are these people and why do they have a podcast? In a much needed follow-up to episode 0, you'll meet all the members of the Amplify team, hear about the very different journeys that led them to Amplify, and learn what makes them passionate about process safety. Tune in as our normally virtual team sits down together for the first time for an episode jam-packed with jabs, sarcasm, and laughs. We look forward to meeting you! Learn more about our team on our website at https://www.amplifyconsultants.com/about. 

In today’s episode, Wesley welcomes Bob Wasileski to the show, an Energy risk engineer from Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), who has sat on both sides of the table when it comes to insurance surveys. In this episode, you’ll learn what an insurance survey is and how it explores both sides of the bow tie diagram, the top 10 things risk engineers look for when they survey your facility, and how you can use  insurance risk engineering reports to make a positive impact on your PSM program and to your insurance premium. If you would like to get more involved with insurance surveys at your site and create value from the process then this is the episode for you.

We're back with Blaine Hoffmann from The SafetyPro Podcast, for part four of our collaborative series comparing and contrasting the PSM standard with OSHA general industry regulations. In this episode we cover the requirements surrounding Hot Work, any work that involves burning, welding, cutting, brazing, soldering, grinding, using fire- or spark-producing tools, or other work that produces a source of ignition. You'll learn what the PSM standard requires for hot work, its relationship with standard 1910.252 (for general industry), and even about what the OSHA construction standard says about hot work activities. You'll also hear an up close and personal story about hot work and associated hazards, and then we'll walk you through 7 key lessons from the CSB to prevent worker deaths during hot work in and around tanks. 

Listen to the Contractor Management episode we referenced a few times here: https://www.amplifyconsultants.com/podcast/episode/2ea6f639/episode-27-contractor-management-with-the-safetypro-podcast 

CSB Fact Sheet: Safe Hot Work Practices (Summary of 7 Key Lessons to Prevent Worker Deaths during Hot Work in and around Tanks)

Full CSB Safety Bulletin: Seven Key Lessons to Prevent Worker Deaths During Hot Work In and Around Tanks

In this episode we welcome back Blaine Hoffmann from The SafetyPro Podcast for another collaboration where we talk both occupational safety and process safety, and this time we cover contractor management. We'll talk about what OSHA says about contractor management for general industry, and what's required for PSM-covered facilities, how contractor management relates to both occupational and process safety, and why you should care. 

Find OSHA's Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs, Communication and Coordination for Host Employers, Contractors, and Staffing Agencies, here. 

Also, a special note about today's episode: While we regularly recommend videos from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) and think they make excellent training material, in this episode we mistakenly said that there was a CSB animation video for the Phillips disaster of 1989 in Pasadena, TX. No such video exists, but you may learn more about the incident on its Wikipedia page, on Youtube, or from ABC13 Houston. 

Flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes - oh my! In this episode we welcome one of our consultants, Elena Prats, CCPSC, to the podcast for the very first time. In an episode full of personal anecdotes and useful tips, Elena and Wesley cover how to assess and plan for natural hazards at your facility, when industry has been prepared and when it hasn't, and some thoughts about future natural hazard trends. Whether you think your facility is prepared or you know it isn't, this is the episode for you. 

Article about Hurricane Harvey

Article about Hurricane Trends

CCPS Monograph: Assessment of and planning for natural hazards

CSB Safety Message and Safety Alert

Six questions to learn from the Fukushima disaster through Human and Organizational Factors

CSB animation for Arkema Crosby

An EPA inspector has just been at your site, now what? Time to sigh in relief or time to panic? In this episode we pick up where we left off after Episode 4 - Government Inspections, and we cover what to expect once the EPA inspector is gone. Special guest Mathew Todaro of Verill Law joins us in this episode, using his years of experience handling complex regulatory matters to clue you into what your next steps should be and what routes the EPA could choose to take. We'll cover the two things the inspector could reach out for after they leave, what the EPA takes into consideration when making their enforcement decisions, the difference between informal and formal enforcement routes, when you should seek counsel, how fines are calculated, and more. If you've always wondered what's involved in EPA inspection and enforcement or want to know what happens when we put an engineer and a lawyer in a (virtual) room together, then this is the episode for you.

Learn more about Mathew Todaro here: https://www.verrill-law.com/mathew-j-todaro/

We've teamed up with The SafetyPro Podcast again to bring you an episode on emergency planning and response. We'll cover general industry's requirements, what PSM says, and a bit about RMP's requirements. You'll also get to hear from Blaine, a former first responder, regarding his experience with emergency response and we'll cover two incidents that truly highlight the importance of emergency action plans. If you work at a PSM-covered facility, or in any industry where safety is essential, you don't want to miss this episode. 

CCPS Process Safety Beacon - Emergency Preparation - The Titanic Disaster (July 2012)

In this very special episode, process safety and occupational safety worlds collide as Wesley teams up with Blaine Hoffmann from The SafetyPro Podcast to discuss incident investigation. You'll learn what OSHA's PSM standard says about incident investigation, as well as OSHA's requirements for general industry, why incident investigation is important, why root cause analysis matters, and more.

OSHA Recordkeeping Policies and Procedure Manual