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What is it that separates companies that have a culture of operational excellence from those that don’t?  Most organizations, though they recognize the importance of their company culture, either don’t know where to begin or have grown weary of failed attempts at culture change. Few have demonstrated the ability to...

Karl Simons, Health, Safety, Security and Wellbeing Director at Thames Water, explains how they have created a defined risk framework that underpins standards and rules to consistently protect their people. 

In this new and exclusive interview, Diane Chadwick-Jones, Director of Leadership and Culture at BP, talks to us about embedding – and sustaining - a culture of operational excellence in a large multinational company. By identifying key culture change inhibitors and then implementing specific training and change management tools to...

David Kaplan - Head of Safety & Mission Assurance at NASA - shares 6 key lessons learned from NASA’s experience with Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) and how to apply some of these risk assessment tools to the challenges and new regulations that impact the oil and gas industry.

In this exclusive interview, we spoke with Simon Watson - Head of Health, Safety, Security and Wellbeing at Thames Water - about Thames Water’s ground breaking approach in using psychology alongside organisational performance to select supply chain partnerships.

In the lead up to the Operational Excellence in Risk Management Summit, we sat down with Jennifer Rogers, Head of Learning at Anglo American to discuss their ‘Reimagine Learning’ programme and how the organization is transforming their workforce in order to remain competitive in an evolving and changing industry.

In the lead up to the Operational Excellence & Risk Management Summit, we sat down with Hugo Ashkar, Global Risk Manager and Diane Chadwick-Jones, Director of Human Performance at BP to discuss how they are establishing a Human Performance framework at the global energy giant.

SCS Railways is a joint venture between Skanska, Costain, and Strabag. With three different companies comes three different cultures – how can you integrate these to drive Operational Excellence? In this exclusive interview with Dan Platten, Director, Health, Safety, Wellbeing & Security at SCS Railways we discuss just that, and how...

Exclusive interview with Jim Wetherbee, the only American astronaut to have commanded five missions in space, a former Vice President of Operational Leadership at BP and author of the recently published “Controlling Risk"! In this exclusive interview, Jim discusses the ten common adverse conditions that existed in companies that experienced...

Everyone seems to have an opinion about the millennial generation – positive, negative, or otherwise. Regardless, it is difficult to deny that this blossoming generation grew up in a very different environment than preceding generations.These differences invariably lead to different perspectives, priorities, and practices. As leaders working in hazardous industries,...

At a time when the industry is putting increased pressure on improving operational efficiency, how can you ensure that safety remains a top priority for your organization? Paul Leonard – Vice President of Health, Safety and Environment at Arkema – shares his insights on the company’s journey to safety excellence...

In this exclusive interview, Ýr Gunnarsdóttir – Operational Excellence / Continuous Improvement Leader for Shell, talks us through how Continuous Improvement (CI) can act as a key enabler for business performance and outcome and how CI ways of working enabled Shell to start-up the Pernis refinery in less than one...

Leigh Mork, Director of Maintenance and Reliability Integration at Suncor Energy, shares Suncor’s approach to mitigating asset risk and how to use asset information to enable safe, reliable and cost effective operations. 

The Operational Excellence in Risk Management Summit in London is attended every year by over 150 heads of operations, operational excellence, HSE, maintenance and reliability operating in hazardous environments. Focused and high-level, the event is an excellent platform to initiate new business relationships, increase brand awareness and establish your company as...

Recently we surveyed over 200 operations leaders to understand how they are responding to today’s volatile market conditions and optimising asset performance. Download this insightful industry report to discover:The specific actions that the oil and gas industry is currently taking to optimise its assetsThe barriers preventing oil and gas leaders...

In the lead up to the Operational Excellence & Risk Management Summit, we decided to take a closer look at how Intelligent Automation is improving operational efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing customer satisfaction levels.  

Big Data is the IT phrase of the moment in almost every industry. The concept of collecting huge amounts of data to learn, manage and gain a competitive edge can be attractive to business leaders. In order to better manage operational risk and continuous improvement, collecting data effectively, identifying high...

Over 100 senior industry leaders will meet in London 18-20 November learn world class strategies for keeping your people safe, your operations productive and your products sustainable at Europe's leading forum on Operational Excellence & Risk Management. Download the exclusive attendee list to see who you will be attending with: