Download this insight brief to learn why many process safety failures are a result of failing to deliver the right risk information to the right person at the moment when a critical decision needs to be made.
Process safety data only creates value when people can act on it
Organizations generate significant volumes of process safety information, including inspection records, maintenance histories, near-miss reports, audit findings, process hazard analysis (PHA) actions, contractor records, and permit-to-work data.
Yet that information often remains scattered across separate systems, spreadsheets, attachments, and institutional knowledge. Warning signs may already exist, but are not connected to a task, asset, or decision that could have made a difference.
This insight brief examines major process safety incidents and the recurring control failures that resulted due to lack of information flow. Discover why meaningful process safety data must be role-specific, contextual, and actionable and should meet workers inside operational workflows, rather than requiring them to search for relevant information in separate compliance systems.
What’s inside
Drawing on a review of process safety catastrophes from 2023 to 2025, this insight brief explores:
- Why progress in process safety cannot be treated as permanent
- The repeated failure of mechanical integrity, PHA, operating procedures, management of change, contractor management, emergency response, and permit-to-work controls
- How disconnected information contributes to recurring operational failures
- Why compliance dashboards may not provide meaningful context to frontline workers
- How integrated process safety management (PSM) surfaces historical incidents, open findings, and asset-specific risks within operational workflows
- What role-specific and actionable risk information looks like at the point of work
Key takeaways
Learn how organizations can:
- Connect inspection, maintenance, incident, audit, permit, and contractor information
- Surface mechanical-integrity findings during work authorization
- Present relevant incident history before similar work begins
- Enrich pre-startup safety reviews with current operational information
- Deliver clear, plain-language alerts to workers and supervisors
- Turn PSM from a reporting mechanism into operational decision support
- Strengthen the connection between leadership oversight and frontline action