Episode 60 - How Organizational Structure Impacts Process Safety with Guest Gilsa Monteiro
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In this very special episode, Rob is joined by guest Gilsa Monteiro, a process safety expert with nearly nineteen years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry, to discuss how an organization's decentralized structure may undermine process safety. In this episode, you'll learn the defining features of both a centralized and decentralized organizational structure, the process safety dangers of a decentralized structure and how to avoid those dangers, and other factors to consider when it comes to process safety, like how bonus structures can impact risk and process safety.  Useful links from today's episode: Read Gilsa's paper (part 1) How do organizational structures impact operational safety? Part 1 – Understanding the dangers of decentralization  Request a copy of Gilsa's paper (part 2) How do organizational structures impact operational safety? Part 2 - Designing structures that strengthen safety Check out Organising for Safety: How structure creates culture by Andrew Hopkins Connect with Gilsa Monteiro on LinkedIn.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/amplifyyourprocesssafety/message
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