Process Safety Professional
CurrentLead process safety programs to ensure regulatory compliance with all elements of Process Safety Management (PSM)/Risk Management Plan (RMP), and conformance with external & internal standards. Advise on interpretation and application of internal and external standards, including Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices (RAGAGEP). Maintain and continuously improve local/ organization’s process safety standards/plans.Conduct, facilitate, and/or coordinate process safety hazard risk identification and mitigation activities, including facility siting, PHA (Process Hazard Analysis), LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis), Management of Change (MOC), and risk calibration. Collaborate with facility personnel to ensure process safety recommendations are closed adequately in a timely manner.Interact frequently with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering personnel and others to help resolve process safety issues and instill a healthy process safety culture. Communicate, elevate, and mitigate process safety risks as appropriate. Identify, develop, and deliver training on process safety to stakeholders.Lead/participate in incident investigations, root cause analyses and reporting. Critically review investigation root causes and recommendations and challenges the organization to learn from incidents and prevent recurrence.Conduct and/or validate process safety leak calculations and categorization with industry standards. Track and analyze process safety metrics to identify trends, strengths, and improvement opportunities. Develop reports to effectively communicate metrics and trends.Lead and coordinates conformance and compliance audits and assurance activities for process safety. Support facilities with regulatory inspection and/or enforcement actions.Participate in specialty industry groups to share and learn good process safety practices, advocate for sound regulations or updates to industry standards.
