Practical process safety from incident to action.
Amplify Your Process Safety is a technical, workplace-focused show about preventing fires, explosions, toxic releases, and operational drift. Episodes move from incident timelines to permits, PHAs, MOC, emergency response, software workflows, and executive accountability.
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Amplify Your Process Safety is built around one central idea: catastrophic industrial events are rarely mysterious after the facts are laid out. The show takes that belief into detailed conversations about process safety, risk management, and the systems that keep hazardous work controlled. Recent episodes spend time on incident breakdowns, including the October 10, 2024 toxic release at PEMEX Deer Park Refinery and the July 14, 2023 explosions at Dow Louisiana Operations. These are not quick headline recaps. They move through the mechanics of work permits, contractor assumptions, line breaking, nearly identical equipment, evacuation, shutdown, and emergency response. That pace gives the show its value. It helps listeners see how a missing verification step or a broad permit can become a fatal pathway. The same practical focus carries into its reviews of CCPS monographs and CSB guidance. Safer Technologies and Alternatives Analysis becomes a discussion about bucketing PHA scenarios, reducing high-severity risks, and spotting low-hanging design changes. Process safety in business financial decisions becomes a warning about short-term capital choices, maintenance cycles, headcount reductions, and the normalization of deviation. Battery technology is treated as a process safety topic, especially when larger systems raise fire, toxic gas, electrical, structural, and domino-effect concerns. Software episodes look at how MOC, action tracking, training, SOP management, contractor management, and documentation can connect instead of living in separate files. The conversations are technical without being theatrical. They assume the listener cares about plants, procedures, and people. There is some consulting-world framing, but the useful core is the applied translation of reports and guidance into field-ready thinking. The show suits engineers, EHS teams, operators, managers, and executives who need process safety to remain concrete. It is most compelling when it shows how everyday systems either interrupt a hazard chain or quietly let one continue.
Made for: For process safety professionals, engineers, EHS teams, plant managers, operators, contractors, and executives who work with or around high-hazard industrial systems. It also suits newer industry listeners who want real examples behind PSM language.
What sets it apart: The show connects formal guidance and incident reports to the details of plant work: permits, equipment verification, MOC, PHAs, emergency response, and management decisions. Its strength is translating what happened into what should change next.
Join industry professionals as they share insight into the world of process safety, including news related to updated codes and standards, recent incidents and what you can learn from them, and their take on all elements of process safety. With decades of combined experience in real, practical implementation, they aren’t just advisors, they practice what they preach. Whether you’re new to process safety, in a role where you interact with aspects of process safety, or an experienced process safety professional, this is the podcast for you.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A focused minute-by-minute review of Dow's emergency response to a major ethylene oxide release with no injuries.
Dow's Plaquemine, Louisiana, ethylene oxide release is treated here as a tight case study in emergency response to a high-hazard chemical incident. The review follows the July 2023 event from the first explosion at 9:17 p.m.
A process-safety monograph becomes a clear warning about how short-term budgets can normalize long-term operational risk.
The episode frames process safety as a financial choice whose real consequences can sit beyond the usual budget cycle. Rob Bartlett and Jackson Colley use a monograph to show how annual capital decisions can hide risks that may surface only once in a plant's life, then follow…
A grounded look at how process-safety software can make change management more connected and accountable.
Process safety is not usually sold as a glossy technology story. In this episode, it is treated as the practical discipline of getting management of change, action tracking, language management systems, and contractor management to move through an operation with enough structure…
A practical STAA review that turns PHA rankings and hose choices into safer design questions.
Safer technology starts with the hazards a plant already understands well enough to rank. Maggie Rietch and Jackson Colley open a mini-series on CCPS monographs with Safer Technologies and Alternative Analysis, tying its inherently safer design focus to Trevor Keltz's…
Manufacturing change, from tools to events.
STEM careers, told through human turning points.
Mining engineering talk with field memory.
This episode analyzes the CSB's final investigation report on the October 2024 toxic hydrogen sulfide release at the PEMEX Deer Park Refinery that resulted in two fatalities.
Amplify Your Process Safety examines the July 14, 2023 ethylene oxide release, fires, and explosions at Dow's Plaquemine, Louisiana facility.
Rob Bartlett and Maggie Reach discuss the CCPS monograph on process safety and battery technology, covering risk identification, safeguards, and barrier health.
Episode 143 of Amplify Your Process Safety centers on the CCPS monograph How Business Financial Decisions Impact Process Safety Performance, with Rob Bartlett and Jackson Colley framing it for senior leaders.
Amplify Your Process Safety episode 142 features Rob Bartlett speaking with Ren Liu Yu, CEO of Frontline Data Solutions, about software for management of change, action tracking, LMS, and contractor safety.
Maggie Rietch and Jackson Colley review the CCPS monograph on Safer Technologies and Alternatives Analysis, or STAA, and connect it to inherently safer design.
Rob Bartlett and Jackson examine the U.S.
The ammonia relief valve did exactly what it was supposed to, but the liquid-laden discharge sank to the ground.
Rob Bartlett interviews Tyson Alexander, who describes APSM’s evolution from Ralph Hitchcock’s 1990s process safety consulting work into software for documentation, reminders, workflows, and reporting.
Rob Bartlett interviews environmental attorney Matt Todaro about EPA's risk management program and general duty clause issues.
Rob Bartlett interviews Neil Beekie about updates to OperAid, a technology aimed at preventing operator errors in manual industrial processes.
Rob Bartlett interviews Shawn Marsh about communicating process safety in a matrix organization, with a lighthearted discussion about Shawn's new 'safety man' moniker.
Raoul Bartlett and Mathew Todaro discuss EPA's National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives for 2024, focusing on the RMP program and General Duty Clause.
Rob Bartlett interviews Mike Washington about his talk on quantitative and qualitative natural disaster preparation for process safety.