Process Safety with Trish & Traci – Details, episodes & analysis

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Process Safety with Trish & Traci

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Frequency: 1 episode/20d. Total Eps: 129

The Process Safety with Trish & Traci podcast shares insights from recent process-safety incidents to avoid accidents at chemical processing plants.

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🇨🇦 Canada - Management
16/09/2026
#95
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15/09/2026
#61
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02/09/2026
#76
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17/08/2026
#77
🇫🇷 France - Management
12/08/2026
#74
🇨🇦 Canada - Management
09/08/2026
#93
🇨🇦 Canada - Management
08/08/2026
#66
🇫🇷 France - Management
28/07/2026
#93
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Management
27/07/2026
#60
🇫🇷 France - Management
27/07/2026
#80

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https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/podcast/process-safety-with-trish-and-traci
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With OSHA Barely Watching, Who's Auditing Your Safety?

Episode 130

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 • Duration 22:53

With federal OSHA down to roughly 1,700 inspectors for 12 million workplaces — meaning a facility might see a full inspection once every 191 years — self-regulation has effectively become the entire safety system. In this episode, Trish Kerin explains why internal teams stop noticing their own drift from procedure (normalization of deviance) and why "no incidents" doesn't mean a program is working — only that controls haven't been tested yet. She outlines practical fixes: cold-eyes audits between facilities, the three lines of defense model, and the crucial difference between assurance and reassurance. Her bottom line: good process safety isn't just compliance — it drives reliability, productivity and profit.

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Piper Alpha Disaster: The Jenga Tower That Was Always Going to Fall

Episode 129

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 • Duration 40:06

On this episode of Processing Safety with Trish and Traci, forensic engineer Dr. Sean Brady joins Trish Kerin and Traci Purdum to revisit Piper Alpha, the 1988 North Sea platform disaster that killed 167 workers. They trace how a lost permit-to-work, a missing relief valve, and a design never updated for gas service combined with failed firewalls, redundant systems that bred false confidence and risers that kept feeding the fire. Using the "Jenga tower" metaphor, Brady explains how safety systems degrade unnoticed until they collapse, and why organizations must dispense with likelihood and focus on consequence, controls, and leadership culture to prevent the next catastrophe.

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Disaster Planning in Process Plants: Best Offense is a Passive Defense

Episode 128

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 08:00

Smart design and layout choices, made well before a crisis hits, can protect plants from cyberattacks, sabotage and extreme weather without a major capital investment. This is based on an article from Amin Almasi, "Disaster Planning in Process Plants: Best Offense is a Passive Defense," Chemical Processing, July 20, 2026

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Four Alarms in Three Weeks: A Safety Professional's Hotel Wake-Up Call

Episode 127

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 • Duration 05:12

From an 3 a.m. evacuation drill to a real fire alarm in Toronto, repeated emergencies reveal how — and how poorly — we prepare when we're away from home. Hear why Trish could be the Jessica Fletcher of the process safety world.

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Who's Taking Care of the Safety Pro?

Episode 126

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 • Duration 43:06

On this episode of Processing Safety with Trish and Traci, General Atomics safety engineer Valerie Stakes returns to discuss well-being in the safety profession, building on her 2026 ASSP conference session. She, Trish Kerin and Traci Purdum explore why safety professionals — often wired to please and fix — struggle to set boundaries and how compassion fatigue, unappreciated efforts and repeated exposure to injuries and fatalities take a cumulative toll. They share personal stories of burnout, offer tips on debriefing, networking and using employee assistance programs and close with a guided breathing exercise. The episode also answers a listener’s question on the role of training in operations and emergency response.

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When Alarms Stop Warning and Start Failing

Episode 125

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 • Duration 06:56

Decades of guidance on alarm management exist. So why are control rooms still drowning in noise?

GKN Aerospace Incident Offers Lessons in Reactive Hazard Management

Episode 124

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 • Duration 25:15

Trish Kerin breaks down the runaway reaction that triggered a mass evacuation in Orange County, California, and explains what facilities handling reactive chemicals can learn about instrumentation, warning signs and emergency communication.

Editor's Note: We mention an upcoming webinar that Trish will be hosting: a webinar focused on leadership in uncertain times — looking at key strategies and tools we can use to navigate some of the challenges we're all facing globally right now. Use the code CPREADER for $5 off.

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Process Safety: Meet Me Under the Clocks

Episode 123

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 • Duration 05:33

The analog timepieces at Melbourne's Flinders Street Station offer a timeless lesson: sometimes the simplest solution is the most elegant — and the most reliable.

11 Fires, 60 Days: What's Really Behind the 2026 Refinery Crisis

Episode 122

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 • Duration 23:09

Eleven refinery and fuel facility fires across four continents in roughly 60 days — that's the alarming backdrop for this episode of Process Safety with Trish and Traci. Process safety expert Trish Kerin examines whether the 2026 incidents are a statistical anomaly or a symptom of deeper systemic pressure. She points to deferred maintenance, narrowing margins and the normalization of risk during periods of production stress as key contributing factors. Kerin also addresses the unique vulnerabilities of new facilities and aging infrastructure. Her bottom line: know your controls, check that they're working and talk to your people. Stick around for the bonus material at the end.

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Leading Safely in a VUCA World

Episode 121

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 • Duration 28:17

When economic pressures mount, safety vigilance can quietly erode — and that's when incidents happen. In this episode, process safety expert Trish Kerin introduces APTBED, a practical decision-making framework for navigating volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times. The acronym covers six critical areas: Authority (know who's in charge), Psychological Safety (create space for honest information), Tacit and Explicit Knowledge (bring all knowledge into the room), Biases (recognize and manage cognitive blind spots), Expectations (manage them or people will fill the void), and Document Decisions (if it's not written down, it never happened). Good decisions and strong safety culture aren't mutually exclusive — even in a crisis.

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