My Moc Stories: Making Process Safety Tangible

Stories and analogies are powerful! And stories that relate to our own lives are not only more memorable but they have far more impact. It is for this reason that when I give guest lectures or training on management of change (MoC) to students, interns, trainees, or others, I not only provide a typical industry example of the need for MoC, but I also punctuate the message by providing at least one personal story. I offer up an example from my life at home of where I, a preacher of the importance and the need for doing MoC well, have failed to do good MoC in my own daily life. I discuss the actual or potential consequences for these failures. Or I might provide an example of where I did apply process safety management (PSM) principles to a home project or other non-PSM regulated process and successfully avoided some potential failures.

The great thing about process safety management elements, and MoC in particular, is that these practices are so relevant and transferrable to so many aspects of our lives. This relationship between practices applied at work and practices applied at home offer us fantastic tools for learning and, maybe, even remembering what we have learned!

Here are a few examples of those stories.