It is always an argument about safety. Is it a cost, investment, expenses, or it can return to be profitable. Some management use to say “No need to do anything at all. Safety will come by itself.”
The Process Safety Failure (Chemical/Petrochemical) Looking at a larger scale, like the 2010 DuPont Belle incident or similar high-risk chemical operations in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). The Incident: A toxic gas release requiring a 5-day facility-wide shutdown and a government-mandated safety audit.Total Financial Impact: 65 Million THB (includes lost production, regulatory fines, and legal fees).The Sales Trap:Large chemical firms in 2026 often face tighter 2% profit margins due to fluctuating raw material costs. Required Sales: \(\frac{65,000,000}{0.02}=\) 3.25 Billion THB.The
Argument: “A single decision to delay a 500,000 THB equipment upgrade creates a 3-billion-baht revenue burden. Engineering controls are not ‘costs’; they are ‘revenue insurance’.”
Better have a production/constructive Argument and make some decision before having nothing to sale.