Defense in Depth – A barrier dependency issue
Defense in Depth: Why Multiple Barriers Can Still Fail Together 1. Introduction: The Problem with Defense in Depth The oil and gas industry relies on
Use Claude for SIL Verification work – Few shot Prompting
After years of working with Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) and conducting SIL verifications for major oil and gas operators, I’ve come to a controversial conclusion:
We have a barrier management crisis? Don’t we
The Hidden Crisis in Barrier Management: Why Your Safety Systems Don’t Know What Your Plant is Doing The Black Hole Most oil and gas companies
Leading & Lagging Indicators, AI, and Psychological Safety
The Incentive Trap: When “Zero Harm” Becomes Less Reporting The oil and gas industry has spent decades refining its safety metrics, distinguishing between lagging indicators
Tracker for HAZOP, EPCIC & Operation Risk Assessment Actions
Action Tracker for EPCIC and Operation Risk Assesment Our flagship product for managing mass actions in an EPCIC project, Operations MRI or submissions for green
Why RAG, Semantic Search, and LLMs Struggle in Engineering Work—and the Case for Hybrid Approaches
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic search, and large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for processing