It’s easy to say how process safety should be done, but it’s not always so easy to do it. Doing process safety – and making it work – in real facilities, with real constraints and real pressures, is what matters.

I’ve spent more than 30 years doing process safety. Across petroleum and gas, mining and minerals, food and beverage, paints and coatings, pharmaceuticals and explosives. And more recently, I’ve been applying the same frameworks in non-process industries.

Regardless of where I’m doing process safety, my focus has always been on making it work operationally, by ensuring critical risks are understood, managed, and that the right actions are embedded in day-to-day work. I work alongside operators, engineers, and leaders – from the frontline to the Board – to challenge thinking, strengthen ownership, and make sure that process safety actually works.

Doing Process Safety is where I think with you about what that means. Sometimes there’ll be stories, drawn from the kinds of situations process safety people face every day. Sometimes observations from years on site, as part of operations, as a coach and consultant, and as an auditor. And sometimes there’ll be questions that don’t resolve neatly. The kind of questions worth thinking about, even when there’s no easy answer.

It won’t always be comfortable reading what I write, and it won’t always be comfortable for me to write it. But that’s how we get better, by continually challenging our thinking.

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