Join STS AIChE for a lunch-time talk presented by Jerry Forest! The event will be centrally located in the west part of Houston at the Haywire (947 Gessner Rd Suite A 100, Houston, TX 77024).
- 11:30AM - 12:30PM Technical talk
- 11:00AM - 1:00PM Networking (before and after)
Registration
- STS Members: $5
- Non-members: $10
- STS YP Members: Free
- STS Student Members: Free
About the Speaker - Jerry Forest
Jerry Forest possesses four decades of experience in manufacturing and process safety with a mission to save lives, protect the environment, and preserve jobs by preventing process safety incidents. He currently serves as a Process Safety Improvement Consultant at Jerry Forest, LLC. His twenty years manufacturing experience is in TDI and aliphatic diisocyantes, hydrazine propellants, chlorine, phosgene, HYCO, TDA, nitric acid, and other technologies. His twenty year global corporate experience includes process safety responsibilities for technologies including refining, olefins, PO, EO, styrene, butadiene, polymers, acetic acid, vinyl acetate, cellulose acetate, engineered materials and others.
Mr. Forest serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in Chemical Engineering Process Safety at LSU and is an Advisor at Pilko. His previous experience includes global roles as Senior Director of Process Safety at Celanese realizing a 90% reduction in process safety incidents over thirteen years. He was a Global Process Safety Manager and Global HSE manager of Engineering and Support, Operational Excellence Manager, and Refinery Process Safety Manager at LyondellBasell. In his corporate roles, Jerry was responsible for global management system and assurance processes, and development of several continuous improvement processes/projects for process and occupational safety, environment, and asset integrity and reliability. He is an experienced lead investigator having participation and lead roles, creating management systems and intentional competency development programs for investigation participants and leads. He has extensive experience in creation and optimization of management systems.
Jerry prioritizes data-driven strategic planning, intentional competency development, fostering a robust process safety culture, and driving excellence in conduct of operations exemplified by the creation of the globally acclaimed “Walk the Line” program. He is recognized as an industry expert in Conduct of Operations, Operational Discipline, and Operational Readiness.
He holds a BS in chemical engineering and MBA from LSU, and a master’s degree in pastoral studies from Loyola. Additionally, he is a Certified Process Safety Professional, emeritus, boot camp instructor, and staff consultant through CCPS. He has been elected to Fellow at both CCPS and AIChE.
Abstract
An indicator of the risk management culture is seen in how recommendations from audits, investigations, and process hazard analysis are resolved. Failure to resolve recommendations can lead to apathy and normalization of deviation. However, a consistent application of a risk based approach for temporary and permanent mitigation along with open communications with the organization can both inspire employees and prevent process safety incidents. These leaders walk the talk.
This discussion will show how historical process safety incidents could have been prevented had the risk of recommendations been properly identified and managed. Tier 4 management system indicators will be presented that can be used to reliability predict process safety culture, reduce the potential of high severity low frequency process safety events, and win the hearts and minds of employees who know with certainty that the company will do the right thing.
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