September 19, 2018 | Mark Paradies

How Could the Best Process Safety Advice Come from the 1960s/1970s?

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There are many “experts” in process safety. Their advice has become laws in the USA and Europe. But accidents continue. Why?

Perhaps we should go back to the real expert on process safety – Admiral Rickover.

What did he have to say about process safety (or, as he put it, reactor safety)? What are we missing in our current efforts to improve process safety? See this set of articles about the normalization of deviation and learn what the expert – Admiral Rickover – had to say about process safety:

Stopping the Normalization of Deviation with the Normalization of Excellence – How Admiral Rickover Did It

Then read his semi-official biography:

Rickover: The struggle for Excellence

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Click on the book above to purchase it on Amazon.

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