“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll penned those words for “Alice in Wonderland” and Trish Kerin, director of the IChemE Safety Centre, Melbourne, Australia, dusted them off for her talk to a global audience at the Women In Safety Congress on March 9. The virtual Congress, held in celebration of International Women’s Day, strove to help women improve safety, reduce incidents and save lives at their facilities and workplaces.
Kerin was pointing out to attendees that you must have a plan in place to move any initiative forward. Regarding safety, you also must be humble and willing to admit you don’t have all the answers. Indeed, a mistake that Kerin made early in her career led her on the path to becoming a champion for process safety and, ultimately, to the role of director at IChemE, which is an industry consortium run by the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Before taking up her role with the professional group, she gained substantial industry experience in the oil, gas and chemical industries.
Chemical Processing is fortunate to have a partner in Kerin for its Process Safety with Trish & Traci podcast series. Each podcast discusses actual process safety incidents at chemical facilities or, sometimes, relevant ones in facilities at other sectors, in a way that’s tailored to provide valuable guidance to chemical industry professionals. The half hour or shorter sessions offer insights into how these events might have been prevented or, at least, mitigated, as well as appropriate next steps and, importantly, lessons learned from catastrophic accidents. I produce and host these podcasts but Kerin serves as the expert.
We have nearly two dozen podcasts in the series and will continue to create more. Here are the five most-listened to episodes.
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