Bluefield Process Safety, LLC

Bluefield Process Safety, LLC Bluefield Process Safety, LLC is a small, privately held consulting company. Our vision is simple: make the world a safer place.

Bluefield Process Safety, LLC is a small, privately held consulting company that serves the chemical, petrochemical, refinery, oil, and gas industries in their efforts to make their processes and facilities safer. Bluefield Process Safety offers many services to our clients including:

• Facilitation of HazOp studies and other Process Hazard Analysis studies
• Risk Assessment within the facility a

nd the process
• Risk Tolerance Criteria determination and application
• Facilitation of Levels of Protection Analysis
• Safety Instrumented Systems
• Safety Requirement Specifications
• Training
• Pre-Startup Safety Reviews
• Regulatory Compliance assistance

Bluefield Process Safety helps its clients understand their options. It’s the company Mike wanted to be there back when he was working in chemical operations: quick to understand what you need, able to deliver without fat or waste, ready to share its methods and tools so you can do the work yourself next time if you choose. You don’t have time or money to squander. Whether it’s properly preparing for a HazOp so your personnel aren’t tied up for days when hours would do, or helping you to take proper credit for the layers of protection you already have in place, Bluefield Process Safety makes sure you achieve the safety you need as effectively as possible.

Explosives that are considered “relatively insensitive” to friction, heat or impact can still ignite under these and oth...
06/16/2026

Explosives that are considered “relatively insensitive” to friction, heat or impact can still ignite under these and other energy sources, the Chemical Safety Board warns.

Investigators are looking into “one of the deadliest industrial incidents in our country in years.”

Leadership is about serving the greater good, even when the decisions are difficult.
06/15/2026

Leadership is about serving the greater good, even when the decisions are difficult.

When someone describe a substance as “high volatile,” do you know what they mean? Do they know what they mean? What term...
06/11/2026

When someone describe a substance as “high volatile,” do you know what they mean? Do they know what they mean? What terms should we use instead?

“ ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean neither more or less.’ ” — Lewis Carroll, in Through the Looking-Glass When Administrative Law Judge Richard DeBenedetto ruled against OSHA in the case of Secretary of Labor v. ...

OSHA has revised its inspection procedures to align with the agency’s updated standard on hazard communication (1910.120...
06/09/2026

OSHA has revised its inspection procedures to align with the agency’s updated standard on hazard communication (1910.1200), issued in 2024.

The agency said it’s also working to improve alignment with the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Here at Bluefield, we're really gratified to see news organizations make the extra effort to get their reporting right. ...
06/08/2026

Here at Bluefield, we're really gratified to see news organizations make the extra effort to get their reporting right. We're glad we could offer our expertise to Channel 8 in Portland, Oregon. Watch retired Bluefield Principal Mike Schmidt's interview with KGW News regarding the Nippon Dynawave incident below.

Investigators have released new video from the site of the chemical...

Methyl methacrylate and other acrylic monomers are widely used to produce acrylic resins. Understanding what happened in...
06/04/2026

Methyl methacrylate and other acrylic monomers are widely used to produce acrylic resins. Understanding what happened in the incident last month in Garden Grove, California may prompt us all to take another look at our safety measures and how our neighbors have changed.

“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future.” — Howard Schutz A chemical incident in Southern California unfolded over the 2026 Memorial Day Weekend that captured the attent...

OSHA is investigating a worker’s death at SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in South Texas on Friday, May 15, 2026.
06/02/2026

OSHA is investigating a worker’s death at SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in South Texas on Friday, May 15, 2026.

Don’t fear falling short; fear becoming comfortable there.
06/01/2026

Don’t fear falling short; fear becoming comfortable there.

There were several serious chemical incidents during the third week of May that got media attention, from local to inter...
05/28/2026

There were several serious chemical incidents during the third week of May that got media attention, from local to international. While the reporting is wrong on many counts, it is important to understand what really happened if we want to prevent recurrence of these events.

“Do you fix a wheel that isn’t broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?” — Jodi Picoult During the week beginning Thursday, May 21, 2026, and going over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, our phones lit up with queries from friends and acquaintances about a series of chemical mishaps ...

A new challenge from OSHA encourages peer-to-peer recognition of safe work practices.
05/26/2026

A new challenge from OSHA encourages peer-to-peer recognition of safe work practices.

The agency says on-the-spot recognition can “make workers more aware of their daily safety actions.”

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