Instructors
The Process Improvement Institute (PII)
instructors have trained more than 6000 technical
and management staff in how to effectively implement PSM,
safety management systems, and reliability programs.
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William G. Bridges (Bill)
 Bill is
President of the Process Improvement Institute (PII).
Formerly, he was a director of the Risk Consulting Division
of ABS Consulting (formerly JBF Associates and EQE
International). He is considered one of the leading
authorities on process safety engineering, risk management,
and human error prevention. He has a Bachelor and Masters
degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Akron
(USA) and he has over 25 years of chemical industry
experience in process engineering, process and product
development, management and safety evaluation, and
operations. He holds 10 US patents, several of which are for
products and processes that are in full, profitable
production today. One factor that makes Mr. Bridges such a
sought after consultant and instructor is his wealth of
hands-on experience in chemical processing and in
implementing PSM in the chemical industry. His last position
in the chemical industry was as a chemical plant manager.
Bill has helped many companies in the petroleum,
petrochemical, plastic and chemical process industries
develop, implement and assess PSM and risk management
programs. These programs include consideration of human
factors to prevent human error. Bill has written several
articles on “how to” prevent human error and how to
implement PSM. He serves on the planning committee of AIChE
for international conferences on process safety. Bill has
taught PSM related courses, including process hazard
analysis/HAZOP leadership, incident investigation/RCA, and
management of change (MOC) since 1987. He is an instructor
for several different courses for PII, and also lectures in
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and he
teaches through IIR in the Middle East. He has trained more
than 5000 in PSM-related and risk analysis-related topics.
Dr. Tony Clark
 Dr.
Tony Clark began his career teaching chemical engineering to
HND and B.Eng (Hons.) students at the Polytechnic of Wales,
he then moved into consultancy and has more than 15 years
experience in the fields of safety, loss prevention and
environmental assessments. His work has included preparation
of safety reports and QRA studies for a variety of onshore
and offshore oil and gas installations, chemical and
petrochemical plants both in the UK and overseas, and in
particular the Middle East. In the early 1990’s he was
seconded to BP Exploration in Scotland where he was a safety
coordinator for a large offshore gas development. Tony’s
training experience includes devising and presenting a
training program covering the techniques of HAZOP, Hazard
Analysis, and elements of PSM to the Chinese in Xinjiang. He
has delivered hazard assessment and emergency planning
training to Indian engineers, risk assessment and
environmental analysis training in the Middle East. Since
joining Vectra Group in August 2003 Tony has been involved
in research work for the UK Health and Safety Executive and
has presented courses on hot work permit systems to British
Sugar.
Ron is Managing Partner of The RM Group, Inc., Knoxville,
TN. He travels worldwide working with manufacturing
companies in North America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and
the Far East.
Ron is author of the book Making Common Sense
Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence,
which describes one company’s journey to world class
performance. His latest book is What Tool? When?
Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools,
is scheduled for release in December, 2006. He has also
written over 30 journal articles worldwide. Ron served for
five years as President of Computational Systems, Inc (CSI),
the leading supplier of industrial instruments and software
for equipment condition monitoring technologies. During his
five-year tenure, the company grew at 30% per year, while
concurrently maintaining healthy profits and cash position,
and a strong balance sheet. He holds a BSME, MSME, MBA, PE,
and CMRP.
 Revonda
has 12 years experience in the chemical industry, including
process development, process engineering, and process safety
management and evaluation. She holds one US patent. Revonda
has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State
University and a MBA from the University of North Carolina’s
Kenan-Flagler Business School. The first 8 years of her
career was hands-on in the chemical industry. In the early
1990’s Revonda led the PSM compliance initiative at a large
chemical manufacturing facility, authoring policies and
procedures to address industry, regulatory, and company
standards, as well as managing their implementation. Revonda
has been involved with plant emergency response teams as a
responder and an incident command post team member.
Revonda
has PSM training from AICHE/CCPS including Process Safety
Documentation and Engineering Design for Process Safety.
Other training includes PHA Leader and Incident
Investigation Leader training. She has significant hands-on
experience having participated in, led and documented over
25 PHAs, numerous management of change (MOC) risk reviews,
performed many MOC approvals, participated or led several
investigations, and participated or led PSM compliance
audits. She has also developed customized training materials
for various topics, including MOC, PHA leadership, and PSM
auditing, and she is a co-instructor for these topics and
for incident investigation. Revonda has experience with both
community relations and crisis management and is currently
involved in LEPC activities, her local Community Emergency
Response Team (CERT), and is a “Together We Prepare”
disaster preparedness volunteer and trainer with the
American Red Cross. For the past 4 years of her career, she
as been a consultant to the chemical industry, were she has
provided PSM-related services on demand, typically as a
sub-contractor to PSM consulting firms.
Ian Wallace
 Ian
has 18 years experience in the UK process industries. He has
a Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering, and has industrial
experience covering process engineering research, design and
troubleshooting. Through positions with some of the UK’s
leading consultants Ian has provided a wide variety of
safety support to a broad spectrum of clients encompassing
the Nuclear, Power Generation, Oil and Gas and Petrochemical
Sectors. Ian has delivered consultancy products ranging from
PHA leadership, consequence assessment and Quantified Risk
Assessment to the development of Safety and Environmental
Management systems, and regulatory compliance reports. Ian
has also presented training courses on HAZOP leadership to
private industry and QRA to the Korean Government Regulator.
 Mr.
Woody has over 17 years of engineering and safety management
experience supporting various nuclear and chemical
operations including nuclear weapons production, facility
decommissioning, environmental restoration projects, and
chemical plant operations and safety management. He has a
Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the
University of Tennessee. During Mr. Woody’s career, he served as
a Senior Safety Engineer with US Department of Energy’s
(DOE) Office of Defense Programs (DP), where he performed
hazard and accident analysis at major nuclear installations.
For the past ten years, Mr. Woody has been a safety
consultant providing regulatory support, safety analysis,
and training. He has been part of the development team for
many of the definitive standards with DOE on hazard
identification, hazard and risk characterization, and
integrated process safety management and environmental
systems. He is experienced and capable with various types of
chemical and radiological dispersion analysis including
ALOHA and HOTSPOT.
Mr. Woody is trained in process hazards analysis (PHA)
and incident investigation, and has completed advanced
studies in Maintenance Management. And he completed the
Reactor Safety course at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He has developed and delivered numerous training
classes to hundreds of individuals on various safety-related
topics, including Integrated Safety Management, Technical
Safety Requirements, and Safety Analysis Review Process. He
is a co-instructor of PII’s courses on PHA and investigation
leadership, and he provides consulting services in many
areas of PSM implementation, safety management system
evaluation and implementation, consequence modeling, hazard
evaluation, PHA leadership, risk assessment, and accident
investigation. |
