Well, I'm back.
The TUV Safety Symposium was very interesting. My speech appeared to be very well received. The title of the speech was, "Why is Safety so HARD?" but could easily have been what Mike Boudreaux from Emerson called it, "The Value of Inherent Safety." In fact, Mike gave such an excellent precis report of my speech that I'm just going to give you the link:
www.emersonprocessxperts.com/archives/2008/09/the_value_of_in.html
And I had a nice week off.