The AI in Business Podcast Building Predictive Safety Systems in Energy Operations - with Patricio Rivera of Oxy
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May 12, 2026 
Patricio Rivera, former VP of HSE International at Oxy and safety leader in energy, describes moving from reactive investigations to predictive safety. He discusses studying green days, using observation data to spot rising risks, accounting for human error through resilient systems, and linking safety practices to business performance.
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Safe Production As Business Continuity
- Safety must shift from reactive incident review to proactive business-continuity thinking that preserves operations.
- Patricio reframed safety from "safety first" to "safe production," tying HSE to sustaining output and financial performance.
Learn From Green Days Not Just Red Days
- Learning from green days (when systems and people perform correctly) is as valuable as investigating incidents.
- Patricio argues industry captures failures but rarely records why things worked, missing patterns that sustain long safe periods.
Build Predictive Tools From Existing Observations
- Use only existing operational data to build practical predictive tools so you don't burden frontline teams.
- Patricio had IT transform hundreds of thousands of observation records into simple, actionable indicators for users and executives.