In this weeks article, Reliability Moderneering: Time for a change Acquiring safety through reliability, by Kelly Callier, Certified Reliability Engineer, Callier recalls a life-changing event that changed the course of his professional career.
It had been a normal day at the refinery, until I witnessed the single most life-changing event that rocked my professional world. After that day, I was never the same professionally. I decided I had to make a difference. I needed to make a difference. I was going to make a difference, Callier writes. I personally witnessed a gentleman, a father of two boys, a devoted husband, a coach, and my friend, brutally have his face disfigured, which caused instant death. The root cause of such an accident was a bull plug located on a chemical injection system, which had badly corroded the threads internally, that the plug was unable to withstand the pressure of the system.
For the full article, please email Catarina Muia at c.muia@kci-world.com for the article PDF.
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