Jun 2025

Risk Matters Episode 4 - Designing & Building for Safety: Lessons from the Field with Paul Eagar

Operational Excellence

Listen to Episode 4

In this powerful episode of Risk Matters, host Jeanne Johns sits down with international executive Paul Eagar, whose career spans hazardous chemicals and explosives manufacturing. Together, they explore how early design and construction decisions can make (or break) a plant’s subsequent reliability and safety.

Drawing from a real-world example, Paul shares how cost-cutting choices – like eliminating redundancy in critical equipment and instrumentation – can lead to costly consequences down the line.

Whether you’re at the drawing board phase or knee-deep in construction, this episode delivers invaluable insights to help ensure your plant delivers on both safety and performance promises.

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