Workplace safety, safety culture, leadership and risk management — international perspective.
Por Andreza Araujo Global Safety Culture Specialist
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A pre-mortem safety review helps EHS managers expose weak controls, hidden assumptions, and decision gaps before high-risk work begins.
Residual risk acceptance should prove control strength, decision authority, expiry, and escalation before leaders allow exposure to continue.
Permit-to-work handover protects high-risk work only when the next shift receives live risk context, control status, and stop-work authority.
Management of Change prevents serious risk only when technical review, field verification, training, and startup authorization work as one system.
Prevention through Design turns risk management upstream by asking leaders to remove or engineer out exposure before the organization depends on behavior, permits, and PPE.
Layer of Protection Analysis helps EHS teams test whether critical controls truly reduce SIF exposure before leaders approve high-risk work.
HAZOP, FMEA and Bow-Tie solve different risk questions. The wrong choice creates analysis volume without improving critical-control decisions.
Bow-Tie Analysis works only when leaders verify critical controls, owners, degradation factors, and SIF exposure in the field before failure.
A practical guide for supervisors who need PTRA forms to expose real field risk before high-risk work becomes another signed ritual on site.
Learn six risk matrix failures that make serious exposure look acceptable, and how EHS leaders can correct the review before harm occurs in the field.
