Das’s Laws in Process Safety and Sustainability
The following laws are based on the eclectic condensation of the author’s experiences in the various fields of knowledge including chemistry, chemical engineering, fabrication, production, and pressure safety.
(1) Our senses conceal more things than they reveal. We are conditioned to see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear.
(2) Some secular codes may seek immunity from reasoned queries.
(3) Expressed truth includes the Image (of speaker or writer) as well as the written expression of the speaker or writer. Absolute Truth cannot be expressed. All expressed truths have a frame of reference and a domain of validity.
(4) Acceptance of truth through information flow happens spontaneously in the direction of image gradient, i.e., from higher human image to a lower human image, as heat flows from a higher temperature to a lower temperature
(5) When maximum allowable safe gap between principles and practice is exceeded and such deviation is normalized, incidents will happen: it is just matter of time.
[Bad behavior, when rewarded or tolerated, leads to worse behavior.]
(6) Power of positive thinking saves your soul; power of negative thinking saves your body. ERS design (or any survival strategy) is rooted to the power of negative thinking.
[Best intention (positive thinking) may lead to the worst scenario.].
(7) Environmental pollution and collateral damage of some targeted actions are unavoidable, but minimizable by-products of civilization.