While reading the conclusion of Mustafa Ghaleiw's article, "Quality vs. Safety"(September 2013, pp. 22-27), which states that quality should be first in everything the industry does or processes won't be safe, I became quite uncomfortable because it does not adequately reflect the complexity of offshore development projects. It is unrealistic to think that a single discipline would have sufficient expertise to envelop all systems and processes. For instance, the bow tie and safety-critical elements examples that are presented are generally owned by the risk management and process safety engineering teams, respectively.
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