As people associated with offshore activities, safety plays a large part in our work culture. Among basic ingredients are:
- Be aware of risks, and the associated events / initiators.
- Plan to eliminate/ reduce the probability of an event happening, and minimise the consequences of such events (good old Risk Matrix).
- Implement the actions recommended above.
- Implement the actions AS recommended above.
- Continuous monitor of the risk and improvement to actions (feedback, another familiar ChemEng concept).
You can translate the list to almost any aspect of work / life, even something as complicated as a SIMOPs procedures.
Now, here’s a real life scenario. As I was driving down Jln. XXX next to the USJ Intergrated School, I see that they have a zebra crossing, and a person posted to direct people to cross the street while he holds back traffic.
So far, so good.
Just as I am about to drive across the zebra crossing, this person, while standing on the right CURB (from my viewpoint), holds back the oncoming traffic flow, doesn’t tell me to stop, and BECKONS a father and son team on my left to cross the road.
See where the failure is? I blame management and apathy, myself.
No participants were harmed in the making of this scenario, though a few choice thoughts hummed through my head.
Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
I’d align my car and run that guy down.
Jabba: I don’t have a planetary governor in my pocket, though if you want to bribe an IEM council member, my pockets are always open.