An Interview With Mark Hutcherson, ConocoPhillips’ Director of Operations Excellence.

Not having a clear view of all the factors that impact the operational reality results in operational inefficiencies, long wait times for frontline work teams, unplanned downtime and the potential for process safety losses. Learn how industry leaders are managing hazards on a real-time basis and the importance of continuously monitoring process safety barrier health to reduce incidents.

In this edited interview from Sphera’s 2020 Safe Operations Summit, Mark Hutcherson, ConocoPhillips’ director of operations excellence, talks to Scott Lehmann, Sphera’s vice president of product management for Operational Risk Management, about ConocoPhillips’ “secret sauce” approach for empowering the connected worker.

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