Drawing on Sphera’s recent Process Safety Report, showing that 49% of organizations believe leadership policies don’t align with frontline reality, the discussion highlights why execution failures persist across permits, LOTO, STO planning, and safety-critical maintenance. Despite mature process safety frameworks, many organizations continue to experience serious risk at the frontline, not because policies are missing, but because execution breaks down during work.
Paper-based permits, disconnected systems, and manual handoffs increase the likelihood of communication and coordination failures, especially in complex environments impacted by workforce turnover, lost institutional knowledge, system transitions (ECC6 to S/4HANA), and M&A. In this session, we explore how these gaps show up during real work execution—such as missed isolations, unclear handovers, or incomplete visibility into simultaneous operations—leading to blind spots, near-misses, and potentially severe events.
Attendees will gain a practical understanding of where and why these breakdowns occur, and why closing the gap requires improving how information flows and work is coordinated—not just updating procedures or delivering more training.
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