What the Wreckage Taught Us — 2025–2026
5 themes · 2 audiences · 4 languages — every article reads a real 2024–2026 incident through a single investigator lens.
Practitioner track
The vulnerability that wasn't in the book
The Bayesian and the limits of 'approved'
The stop-work that didn't stop the work
BASF Geismar, and the authority that dissolved in a handoff
The line he opened was live
Olin Freeport, PBF Martinez, and isolation that wasn't where the work was
The air that gave no warning
Northrop Grumman, argon, and a confined space reclassified out of its controls
The fire they could only watch
Moss Landing, thermal runaway, and a technology deployed faster than its playbook
C-suite track
What your assurance system isn't telling you
The Bayesian, read from the boardroom
The control you counted that wasn't there
BASF Geismar, and the stop-work your board only thinks it has
The clean permit and the live line
Olin, PBF Martinez, and what your control-of-work record actually proves
The space you downgraded
Northrop Grumman, a reclassified confined space, and the controls a board never sees removed
The asset you couldn't control
Moss Landing, and governing a technology deployed faster than its failure could be contained