The Process Improvement Institute (PII) instructors have trained more than 7000 technical and management staff in how to effectively implement PSM, safety management systems, and reliability programs. If you do not already know us, come to one of our many courses offered publicly to check us out first-hand.
Bill Bridges
Bill is President of the Process Improvement Institute (PII). He has over 30 years of experience, including more than 20 in senior management and senior PSM advisory roles. 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 14 years of hands-on chemical industry experience in process operation, process engineering, process and product development, management and safety evaluation, and operations management. 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 ASSE-MEC and GPCA in the Middle East. He has trained more than 5000 in PSM-related and risk analysis-related topics.
Adel is an EHS-Process Safety Specialist with wide experience of petrochemicals EHS management, PSM (Process Safety Management) including Permit to Work and Accident Investigation, Capital Projects Safety, Environment, and Fire protection. He received his B.S. in Biological Systems Engineering from Washington State University. He has extended experience in loss prevention, safety/health/environment, fire protection, and process engineering in world-scale petrochemicals and fertilizers complexes. Adel has a quantifiable track record related to supervision of safe and secure design, construction, commissioning, start up, and operation of several world scale multi-billion petrochemicals complexes/facilities in conjunction with world renowned engineering contractors such as Fluor, Stone & Webster, Parsons, Daelim, Samsung, Snamprojetti, Chiyoda, Toyo, Linde, KBR, CTCI. He has specialized skills in risk mitigation and quantitative and qualitative risk assessment, including Consequence Analysis during design, construction and operations of process facilities. Additionally, Adel has trained personnel in the use of the HSE and PSM Elements and wrote standard operating procedures for the implementation of the Management system.
Arthur M. Dowell, III, P.E.
Art is an independent chemical process safety consultant. He has 42 years industrial experience at Rohm and Haas (now owned by the Dow Chemical Company) in technical support to operations, engineering design, plant startup, research, technology management, hazard and risk analysis, and incident investigation. He is recognized in the industry for his work in process safety management systems, incident investigation, and risk assessment and has many years conducting incident investigations. Mr. Dowell has extensive experience leading PHAs (Process Hazard Analyses), and performing consequence analysis and fault tree analysis. He is a proficient user of FMEA, what-if/checklist, event trees, and, an emerging technique, HAZROP (Hazard Reliability, and Operability Analysis). He taught multiple internal courses for Rohm and Haas PHA facilitators. He was a co-developer of the Multiple Cause, Systems Oriented Incident Investigation System at Rohm and Haas in the 1980s, and has conducted numerous training courses on incident investigation within Rohm and Haas and for the industry overall. He has been using LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) for chemical processes for more than 20 years, spearheading its use in Rohm and Haas Company, publishing it in industry symposia, and mentoring and training engineers in its use. Mr. Dowell served several years on the ISA S84 Standard Committee and the US Technical Advisory Group for the IEC 61511 Standard Committee. He was one of the primary authors of technical report TR84.0.02 for analysis of the performance of Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs). Mr. Dowell is a Fellow of AIChE and a member of ISA (the Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society). He served the South Texas Section of AIChE on the Executive Committee and as secretary and treasurer. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (Chemical Engineering) in both Pennsylvania and Texas.
Matías A. Massello
Matías is a chemical and functional safety engineer from Argentina. He took his first steps related to chemical engineering as a teaching assistant in “Unit Operations” for advanced students at the University of La Plata. Afterreceiving his degree, Matías began development of a professional career in the chemical process safety area, working for a consultancy company. In the past four years, Matías has gained significant hands-on experience, having led, organized, participated in, and/or documented more than 80-Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), 10-Layer of Protection Analyses (LOPAs), numerous Management of Change (MOC) risk reviews, and performed more than 10-Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRAs). He has also developed training materials for various oil, gas, and petrochemical companies specific to PHA, QRA and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), and has participated in the development of PSM guidelines.
Sandeep Mohandas
Mr. Mohandas has 19+ years of experience in the petrochemical industry, including process design, EPC and Process Safety Management (PSM). The first 10-years of his career were hands-on in the refining and petrochemical industry and particularly contributing to greenfield projects from design to EPC stages. Since 2006, Sandeep began participation in the development and implementation of a formalized PSM program at a large petrochemical manufacturing facility, authoring policies and procedures to address industry, regulatory, and company standards, as well as managing their implementation. Sandeep has been involved with plant emergency response teams as a responder and an incident command-post team member. He has also led 2 major process safety incident investigations.
Sandeep has significant hands-on experience having led, organized, participated in and documented more than 12-Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), 10-Layer of Protection Analyses (LOPAs), numerous Management of Change (MOC) risk reviews, performed many MOC approvals, led incident investigations and more than 150-Pre-Startup Safety Review’s (PSSRs), and participated in gap analyses and audits for development of a PSM program. Sandeep has also developed training materials for various topics, including PSM, Asset Management, PSSRs, PSI, Action Management and Safety Instrumented System (SIS) Management.
Revonda has 20+ 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 40 PHAs, numerous management of change (MOC) risk reviews, performed many MOC approvals, participated or led several investigations, and participated or led many PSM compliance audits and PSM assessments. 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 6 years of her career, she has been a consultant to the chemical industry, were she has provided PSM-related and PHA/HAZOP training and consulting.
Tim Waugh
Tim has 20+ years of experience in the petrochemical industry, including process control and instrumentation and process safety management (PSM), a B.S. in Biology from the University of New Brunswick, and is a certified instrumentation engineering technologist. The first 10-years of his career were hands-on in the petrochemical industry. In 2006, Tim began participation in the development and implementation of a formalized Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) Management program at a large petrochemical manufacturing facility, authoring policies and procedures to address industry, regulatory, and company standards, as well as managing their implementation. He has been involved with plant emergency response teams as a responder, firefighter and an incident command-post team member.
Tim has significant hands-on experience having led, organized, participated in and documented more than 50-Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), 40-Layer of Protection Analyses (LOPAs), numerous management of change (MOC) risk reviews, performed many MOC approvals, led over 50-incident investigations and 200-Pre-Startup Safety Review’s (PSSRs), and participated in over 15-gap analyses and audits for development of a PSM program. He has also developed training materials for various topics, including PSM, PSSRs, PSI, Action Management and Safety Instrumented System (SIS) Management.