It is indeed an honour to be invited to contribute the inaugural Trevor Kletz & Sam Mannan Guest Perspective on Process Safety. Unfortunately I did not ever meet Trevor, though I worked at a plant he was a design consultant on, but I worked with Sam for several years, together focused on how we could improve process safety outcomes.

For this paper I want to write about a key area in process safety that I believe underpins everything we do. If we get it really wrong, we can't come back from the brink. If we get it a little wrong, we can usually recover, with a lot of work and effort. If we get it right, things just work. So, what am I talking about, is it design, maintenance, operations? No, I am talking about leadership. This underpins everything else we do in process safety yet is an oft neglected aspect. I think this is a fitting start to this series, because both Trevor and Sam believed in effective communication, which is a key element of leadership. I hope it will set the scene for future articles to incorporate aspects of leadership when others will delve into more detailed topics.

诚挚地被邀请为特雷弗·克莱茨（Trevor Kletz）和萨姆·曼南（Sam Mannan）关于过程安全的客座观点做出贡献，确实是一种荣幸。不幸的是，尽管我曾在Trevor的一家工厂担任设计顾问，但我从未见过Trevor，但是我与Sam一起工作了几年，共同致力于如何改善过程安全性。

在本文中，我想写一个过程安全的关键领域，我认为这是我们所做工作的基础。如果我们真的弄错了，我们将无法从边缘走回来。如果我们弄错了一点，通常可以通过大量的工作和努力来恢复。如果我们做对了，事情就会奏效。那么，我在说什么，它是设计，维护，操作吗？不，我说的是领导力。这巩固了我们在过程安全性方面所做的所有其他工作，但却经常被忽略。我认为这是本系列的合适开篇，因为Trevor和Sam都相信有效的沟通是领导的关键要素。我希望它将为将来的文章奠定平台，以便在其他人深入探讨更详细的主题时纳入领导力方面。