Published Jul 29, 2026 | Last updated Jul 30, 2026 | Barrier Management, Industry
Major industrial accidents rarely come down to a single failure. In every case, such as Piper Alpha, Texas City, Buncefield, and Deepwater Horizon, investigators found that several protective measures failed at once, and not that one system broke down in isolation....
Published Jun 2, 2026 | Last updated Jun 2, 2026 | Barrier Management, Industry, OpenRisk, Presight News
Precision, Transparency, and Proactive Protection Through Intelligent Barrier Monitoring Key Takeaways Visual Clarity: Complex hazard scenarios become intuitively graspable, significantly improving communication between management and the operational...
Published Jun 1, 2026 | Last updated Jun 1, 2026 | Barrier Management, Industry, Oil and Gas, Solutions
What is a DFU/DSHA? A Defined Hazard and Accident Situation (DFSHA/DFU) is a specific and observable hazard or accident scenario identified by an operator. It is used as the basis for dimensioning emergency preparedness and designing the associated...
Published May 21, 2026 | Last updated May 21, 2026 | Barrier Management, Customer, Industry, Oil and Gas
The Challenge Shelf Drilling wanted to strengthen how barrier information was used during daily offshore operations. While technical barriers and maintenance activities were already tracked in separate systems, operational and organisational barriers often relied on...
Published Jan 13, 2026 | Last updated Jan 14, 2026 | Barrier Management, Customer, Industry, Presight News
Achieving safer operations and improving uptime is rated as the most important priority for industrial firms. This is a key finding from the Verdantix Global Corporate 2026 Survey. Furthermore, Verdantix report also shows that industrial firms will substantially...
Published Oct 9, 2025 | Last updated Oct 9, 2025 | Barrier Management, Insights
by Rebekka Schmidt & Rune Undheim How can ideas and principles from risk science be applied to improve the understanding and handling of uncertainty in barrier management, to strengthen current practices? Barrier management is the main topic of this...
