How Can Safety Sentinel Scope Help You?

Safety Scope Sentinel provides the rare combination of technical expertise and strategic financial acumen to cut through complex regulatory requirements. We focus on delivering compliance solutions that are effective, defensible, and financially responsible.

If you are a manager looking at a slate of compliance scope that threatens to upend your next turnaround, and asking "Why?" or "Does this make sense?", we can help.

High-Impact Challenges We Solve

Do you or your team struggle with any of these core challenges?

  • Suspect that the likelihood or consequence of a scenario is grossly misrepresented by overly conservative assumptions?

  • Worry that your relief devices are oversized, placing too much strain on the relief system or requiring unnecessary capacity upgrades?

  • Need to verify the credibility of a scenario consequence that is driving millions in CAPEX?

  • Struggle with unreasonable instrumented response requirements due to a lack of clarity around Process Safety Time or process dynamics?

  • Worry about the unintended consequences of a complex safeguard or MOC application?

  • Require a cold-eyes technical review on a capital project to ensure the design is fit-for-purpose and not over-engineered?

  • Need assurance that your asset's MOC and LOPA/PHA documentation meets industry and regulatory standards (including RAGAGEP)?

  • Struggle to bridge the gap between engineering design theory and site-level operational reality?

We have deep, unparalleled experience guiding clients through all these challenges and more.

We Provide Strategic Clarity By:

  • Eliminating the Wrong Scope: Actively killing poorly conceived projects by applying rigorous methodologies (e.g., process dynamics, double-jeopardy rules, RAGAGEP) to rule out non-credible safety consequences. This eliminates the costly installation of supervisory systems that often become bad actors in operational upsets.

  • Optimizing Technical Solutions: Designing solutions that are safe and responsible while minimizing resource impact. This means avoiding over-engineered systems and focusing on generating simple, On-The-Run (OTR) solutions that require little to no incremental capital spend whenever possible.

  • Bridging Organizational Silos: Translating complex technical compliance requirements (such as those under OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119) into clear, actionable language for management, operations, and technical teams.

  • Delivering Proven Savings: Applying decades of experience to adhere to safety standards while optimizing project spending, proven to drive multi-million dollar savings.

  • Providing High-Level Expertise: Leveraging deep operational and design experience (represented by the broken-in work boots) to complement detailed knowledge of Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), and specialized Pressure Relief System design..

Our Story

In my nearly two decades of experience as a practicing Chemical Engineer within a large International Oil Company, I have had the opportunity to intentionally pick from a wide range of roles to build a uniquely valuable breadth of experience.

After a stint supporting Research and Development projects where I was the champion of the Technical Qualification Process used to advance emerging technologies, I moved to a position where I led Process Teams in developing the Engineering Design Packages of commercial-scale Hydroprocessing units for a variety of domestic and international clients. Seeing a gap in operations and upstream experience, I then acquired a role in which I rotated offshore to an FPSO off the coast of Brazil, where I served as the Offshore Process Engineer, leading efforts around process optimization and surveillance, Management of Change, and acquiring my certification as a Process Hazard Analysis Facilitator all while floating in the mid-Atlantic embedded within a fantastic operations team who even allowed me turn a valve or two on occasion. I moved from this role to one as a Process Lead for Enterprise efforts to update Safety Instrumented Systems throughout Manufacturing Assets, and technical expert tasked with developing novel methodologies for complex establishing Process Safety Time calculations and optimizing the automated solutions employed to close safety gaps in Layers of Protection Analysis. My cross-functional interaction in this role led to an opportunity to develop skill in detailed Pressure Relief Valve and overall Relief System design.

My path at Chevron culminated with my selection to one of the top technical roles available within Chevron: Leader of a Business Improvement Network. As the leader of the Flare and Relief Systems Business Improvement Network, I was tasked with authoring the corporate policy governing prioritization of key compliance projects to meet the requirements of OSHA per 29 CFR 1910.119. While I had built a strong technical foundation, it was my ability to bridge silos between Management, Operations, and Technical Experts across multiple engineering and safety disciplines that differentiated my impact in this role, where I was able to enable over 50 MMUSD in savings and value-generation by my network in my first year alone by focusing on implementing solutions that made sense over blindly following a myriad of procedural requirements without understanding why they exist.

I look forward to working with you.

Cory Durham, PE. CA License CH 6544.

Cory@safetyscopesentinel.com

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