Webinar: Near-Miss Management as a Tool to Reduce Business Risk
(Including Process Risk) in Chemical Process Industry
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM EST
SPEAKERS: ULKU OKTEM AND ANKUR PARIYANI

This webinar will discuss how managing near-misses improves company profitability and reduces the frequency and severity of industrial accidents and unplanned shutdowns. The near-miss concept has long been understood in chemical process industry. However, what has been largely missing is the integration of near-miss management into the culture and day to day operations in a manner that underlines the critical connections between near misses and performance. Too often, near-miss management has been relegated to special staff or company-wide risk management committees, with the result that near-miss identification has become an important part of the post accident analyses rather than a leading indicator of potential hazardous conditions. This webinar will discuss the integration of near-miss management into Enterprise Risk Management with special emphasis on recent developments of its application in Process Risk Management.



Disaster plan: Philly startup Near-Miss Management is a guaranteed hit
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2012

It would be incredibly useful to predict disasters before they happen. That's the goal of Near-Miss Management, a new company co-founded by Ulku Oktem and Ankur Pariyani, who met at the University of Pennsylvania, where Oktem taught and Pariyani received his PhD.

Suppose the BP Gulf oil spill could have been prevented. Or the disaster in Bhopal. Oktem and Pariyani have created the remarkable, patent pending, Dynamic Risk Predictor Suite, comprised of three software programs and four add-ons that are able to predict major problems before they happen, saving billions of dollars annually.