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Ethics & accountability · Calling out concerns to leadership

During a turnaround you notice a pressure-relief device on a reactor was reinstalled without the correct set-pressure verification, but the unit is already being restarted and the plant manager is under pressure to hit the production restart date. What do you do?

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A relief device is the last barrier between an overpressure event and a rupture, so an unverified set pressure is a stop-the-restart condition, not a paperwork gap I flag later.

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