Process Safety Management, Systems and Leadership

10 Feb 2026
Tech Talks Theatre
Tech Talks

Thanks to robust systems, leadership commitment, and decades of learning from past events incidents are rare. However, this rarity breeds complacency: the urgency to invest in Process Safety Management (PSM) diminishes. Challenges are worsened by high energy costs and economic constraints; borrowing and inflation.

"Rare = Safe" is a dangerous illusion. Effective PSM systems must counterbalance it. We advocate for effective leadership and gap analysis as a critical means of maintaining effective PSM, in the relative absence of hazardous industry incidents.

 

Speakers
Mark Bunch
Mark Bunch, Principle Process Safety Consultant - Sigma-HSE (UK) Ltd