The Complexities of Process Safety Leadership
Process safety leadership can be difficult to achieve. It can be easy to preach but difficult to practice without the right tools. Management of complex process safety facilities comes with a large number of competing priorities from immediate production and earning targets, legal compliance, insurer interventions to projects for improvements. Process safety can be lost in these other priorities and become a reactive “firefighting” movement at your facility, but process safety needs to be integrated with these other leadership decisions. It is not a bolt on when managing high hazard facilities.
The issue comes when we consider that process safety is complex. An incident generally arises from several failed barriers (all the way from concept selection to maintenance) and to an outsider process safety incidents can all seem specific to that facility. For someone who was hired for management or financial competence process safety can seem a world away. In this presentation I will give you a simple framework which can be used for decision-making on high hazard facilities which will help you see results immediately.
The webinar will be relevant to process safety managers, safety managers, site managers, finance managers, HR managers, IT managers, etc.
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The webinar will be presented by:
Louise Whiting CEng IChemE FSaRS. Louise has over 12 years of experience in major oil and gas operators (BP and Shell). She is a Chartered member of the IChemE and holds the Professional Process Safety Engineer status from the institute. She has extensive experience in operations as well as experience in wells and projects. Majority of this experience is in upstream oil and gas onshore, offshore, North Sea and Iraq. She transitioned to technical or process safety just after achieving chartered status and has experience applying her skills in a range of environments. Louise is a Fellow of the Safety and Reliability Society, Chair 2022/23, Membership Chair. Louise holds a variety of qualifications including chartership, professional process safety engineer and certified functional safety engineer. Louise was managing director of Barberton Limited for 3 years then moving to found Deedah PSM Ltd in 2023
Starts
Wednesday, 30th April 2025 at 12:30pm
Ends
Wednesday, 30th April 2025 at 1:45pm