In the past couple of months, I had several conversations with process safety professionals asking about “running equipment to failure” within a chemical process handling a highly hazardous chemical (HHC) or extremely hazardous substance (EHS). These discussions were often lively and I was actually called “a consultant” “that needed to walk a mile in my shoes”; as if I have I never fought this battle before whiling being a process safety professional in the petrochemical industry for 15 years. This is not a new battle in the process safety arena and I imagine it may never end until everyone is fundamentally on the same page with how a process should be managed. But as I sit here on my plane riding across this great nation and the memory of the recent plane crash in San Francisco, “run to failure” is CRYSTAL CLEAR right now. Here is how I see things, flying 500 mph at 36,000 ft…