“Institutionalizing Lessons Learned from Process Safety Events and Process Safety Fundamentals"

Honeywell’s Performance Materials and Technologies division has implemented various risk and process safety event reduction measures. These include implementing lessons learned, executing top risk projects, addressing process hazard analysis recommendations, and implementing corrective actions to compliance audit findings and incident investigation root causes.

Despite all these good process safety management practices, facilities can still experience process safety events that could harm people and the environment. A deep dive of Honeywell's process safety events revealed root causes associated with process safety fundamentals. This presentation will look at how Honeywell incorporated these root cause analyses into their standards, processes, and procedures. Noel will present on how industry can benefit from learning how Honeywell deployed this initiative.

Scheduled Speaker:

Noel Misa, P.E.

Leader of Process Safety

Performance Materials and Technology

Honeywell International

Noel has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from De La Salle University. He is a Board Certified Professional Engineer in New Jersey and currently works for Honeywell International as a Leader of Process Safety with the Performance Materials and Technology business in New Jersey. Noel has more than 30 years of professional experience in the refining, petrochemical and chemical industry. He is one of the founding members of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM’s) Process Safety Workgroup which helped establish the Advancing Process Safety Program for the industry. He was a member of the AFPM Event Sharing Subgroup (now Industry Learning subgroup) and is currently a member of the AFPM East Coast Process Safety Regional Network. He was a member of API’s Process Safety Committee and CCPS Technical Steering Committee.

Prior to Honeywell, Noel worked for Royal Dutch Shell as the Regional Process Safety Manager for the Americas overseeing process safety management for all refining and petrochemical sites from Canada to Argentina. He was based in Houston at that time. Previously, he was on an expat assignment in Singapore as Regional Process Safety Manager for Asia, Pacific, New Zealand, Australia and the Middle East. Earlier in his career with Shell, he was a Technical Advisor, a Production Manager on an expat assignment in Saudi Arabia, a Head of the Lubricants Business, Project Engineer, Head of Manufacturing, LPG Plant Supervisor and Maintenance Engineer. Noel also worked for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in New Jersey where he held roles as Vice President for Health, Safety and Environment, Plant Manager, and Process Safety Manager. Prior to this, he worked for Witco Corporation (which became Crompton, then Chemtura and now part of LANXESS AG) as Production Manager at their Los Angeles, CA plant. He was subsequently relocated to the head office in New Jersey as Corporate Process Safety Manager.