Webinar: Process Safety – Beyond the Safety Case by Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)

Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)

About This Webinar

The Joint Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry Committee, South Australia welcomes you to this online panel event on Process Safety – Beyond the Safety Case.

Safety cases are prepared by operating companies to present to the regulator the technical, management and operational information about the hazards and risks that may lead to a major incident at a Major Hazard Facility (MHF). The safety case also demonstrates the adequacy of control measures the operator will implement to mitigate the risks associated with major incidents that could occur as well as how the MHFs safety management system will control this risks that could lead to – and arise from – a major incident.

So what happens after a safety case is approved by the regulator?
How are industry and government bodies ensuring the continuous improvement on process safety measures at MHFs?

Join our panel of experts, hosted by Trish Kerin, to hear what the importance of monitoring, maintaining, improving and implementing safety measures at MHFs means to them.

Shubhraj Shubhraj

Principal Officer – Major Hazard Facility at SafeWork SA.

Shubhraj is a Chemical Engineering professional working as Principal Officer – Major Hazard Facility at SafeWork SA.  He has worked with multiple chemical processing/ oil & gas industries with assignment in the field of plant operations, process optimisation and process safety. He has been responsible for initial work of introduction of MHF regulations in South Australia and continuing to work with MHFs in the state.

Dan Norris

General Manager, Global Critical Risk for Fonterra

Dan, known to everyone as ‘Chuck’, is currently the General Manager, Global Critical Risk for Fonterra. He covers hazards and risks that might lead to serious consequences. Prior to his current role, he was General Manager, Engineering for the $15.6bil asset footprint in NZ. Since joining in mid-2015 he had been successfully focused on improving core Maintenance, Utilities, Facilities, Inventory, and Capital Projects processes and practices while delivering plant uptime at a reduced cost. He is now hunting out rare, fundamental risk and reshaping how catastrophes are better combatted for the Co-operative.
 
Chuck has a foundation in high-reliability aerospace engineering and his early career saw him a qualified Sonar Operator (Navy), and Commissioned Avionics Engineering Officer (Airforce). He then held senior offshore operational positions with EADS (Eurocopter) in Australia, and DuPont in Thailand, India, Malaysia, Singapore, and China.
 
His personal interests are in woodworking and welding, along with programming home automation and blockchain protocols. He is active in his learning and is currently completing his PhD at University of Otago. His research looks into high hazard safety assurance seeking to sharpen principles of the Theory of Graceful Extensibility and generate sufficient buffer to black swan events.

Andrew Mathers

Senior Principal Specialist, Nuffield Consultants

Andrew graduated in chemical engineering then spent almost 35 years with Esso Australia working in a range of engineering, commercial and safety roles, including 11 years international experience in Nigeria, Iraq, and Guyana.   He developed the first safety cases for Esso’s onshore facilities under the 2000 MHF Regulations, and has shared many improvements derived from that experience during his international assignments.

Stephen Kast BE (Chem & Matls) Ist Class Hon, FIChemE, C. Eng

Professional Process Safety Engineer

Stephen has more than 40 years experience in a range of industries including Pulp & Paper, Chemicals and Explosives manufacturing in engineering, operational and safety roles. Many of the plants were or are Major Hazard Facilities. Stephen has worked plants in NZ, Australia, Philippines, India and China.

Trish Kerin

Director, IChemE Safety Centre

After graduating with honours in mechanical engineering, Trish spent several years working in project management, operational and safety roles for the oil, gas and chemical industries. 
Trish has represented industry on many government committees related to process safety including the board of the Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority. She is a member of the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center steering committee.

Trish is a Chartered Engineer, registered Professional Process Safety Engineer, Fellow of IChemE and Fellow of Engineers Australia. Trish holds a diploma in OHS, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and hold a Master of Leadership.
Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and a Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust).

In 2015 Trish was awarded the John A Brodie Medal from Engineers Australia for the best paper at the Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress 2015 (incorporating Chemeca). The award recognises Trish’s peer reviewed paper on Process Safety Competency. In 2018 Trish was awarded the Trevor Kletz Merit Award by the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center for her work in advancing process safety worldwide.

Fiona O'Connor

Market Development and Sales Executive - Australasia

Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)

Kaitlyn McCrone

Chair, Joint Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry Committee, South Australia