17/08/2026
The technical challenges of ageing infrastructure are well understood. The human realities of managing assets towards end of life receive far less attention.
In his latest thought leadership article, Dave Blackburn explores how late life operations create a distinct psychological environment, one where declining production and looming decommissioning conversations change how the workforce thinks and behaves, often years before closure happens.
Kent believes in treating workforce stability, knowledge retention and safety culture as central elements of late life strategy. Because protecting the people running an asset is, ultimately, how you protect the asset itself.
Read the full article to discover why the human reality of late life operations may be the industry's most overlooked risk: https://bit.ly/4x7Aoom