Sometimes, despite best efforts, things go wrong. It is important at such times to carry out a full investigation into any event to determine the root cause and to implement controls to prevent a repeat.
RJM’s experience in such investigations includes painstaking review of recorded plant data and alarm logs, the collection and analysis of samples and, where required, interviews with operations and engineering staff.
The objective here is not to allocate blame, but to develop mitigating actions that will prevent a recurrence. In many cases the results of RJM’s investigations are presented to the regulating authority as part of the operator’s incident investigation.