(47ah) Death of "Landlord" or Collapse of "Tomb", Which Matters More? - Some Perspectives of Engineering Ethics and Engineering Philosophy on Enterprise Global Risk Management
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2014
2014 Spring Meeting & 10th Global Congress on Process Safety
Global Congress on Process Safety
Poster Session
Monday, March 31, 2014 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Within the paper presented at 9th GCPS, the author named CCPS RBPS Temple the house for a "landlord" i.e. core value to live within and also stated that the 'landlord" could even buy a new house with new style of design to live within. In other words, a "landlord" could own a couple of, even many a few, houses at same time to enjoy life. Should "landlord" die withnin, however, the house may seem still a house outwardly, but substantively with a purpose of tomb.
And the author argues further that inhabited house could be timely repaired and maintained to good condition, otherwise uninhabited house whose "landlord" died within is more likely to degrade neglectedly, and eventually collapse. In context of enterprise global risk management, it seems that the structural soundness of the houses has been attracting more attention than should deserve, whereas the death of "landlord" neglected to some extent within process industry and beyond. And for the fact that the lack of correct core value and healthy process safety cultural communication was arguemented by the author to be the ultimate root cause for all the catastrophic process safety accidents, some attempts are made to explore and prospect if the absence of alive correct core value should be inherently of organizational and episodic conflicts of interest i.e. 'natural' multi-chain of command in light of Engineering Ethics.
Then the author goes one step further to characterise RBPS Core Value and Process Safety Cultural Communication with new implications in light of the emerging subject Engineering Philosophy, so that it could be prospected that how tradeoffs between different functions, stakeholders, regions and businesses could be negotiated, potential failure diagnosed and prevented, design style of house modelled, and ultimately how more critical "landlord" enjoying life could be than tomb's structural soundness, which is in fact of new implications for addressing some of the biggest challenges from enterprise global risk management, especially of merger and acquisition.
Finally, upon all of above, a few of important recommendations would be given to process industry and beyond so that a brighter future of enterprise global risk management could be prospected.