A practical framework for deciding what to build yourself and what to just go buy, and why that spreadsheet you put together isn't nearly as free as it looks. Most facilities don't decide to build their own PSM software. They drift into it. It usually starts with one person. A coordinator who's good with spreadsheets builds a tracker to keep tabs on action items. It works. So it grows. Now it's tracking PHA recommendations, MOCs, inspection due dates, and training records, al

The process safety world is abuzz with the potential incident in Orange County. If you haven’t been staying up-to-date, here is a brief overview: An ongoing hazardous materials incident at a GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, California, began after a 34,000-gallon storage tank containing roughly 6,000–7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate (MMA) overheated and began venting vapor, raising fears of a catastrophic explosion or toxic chemical release. The incident prompted e

How Smart Refrigeration Technology is Helping Facilities Reduce Costs, Improve Reliability, and Simplify Compliance Industrial refrigeration facilities are under increasing pressure to operate more efficiently while maintaining safe and reliable operations. Rising utility costs, staffing challenges, aging equipment, and growing regulatory expectations are forcing many companies to rethink how refrigeration systems are managed. Fortunately, modern ammonia refrigeration technol

There's a moment when most consultants recognize you're in a room where the facility operator, the contractor, and the engineer all have different priorities, different pressures, and different definitions of what "done" looks like. Your technical knowledge got you in that room. Your ability to navigate the people in it determines what happens next. In the ammonia refrigeration world, that dynamic shows up constantly. As consultants, we're always working between groups of fac