August 1, 2024
3:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM CT / 12:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM GMT
Duration: 1 hour
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Summary
Process Safety can pose significant hazards to your personnel and even the surrounding community. Join Trish Kerin, director of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Safety Centre, author, award-winning international expert, keynote speaker, and co-host of the Process Safety with Trish & Traci podcast, as she moderates a panel discussion with a number of industry experts on the challenges of process safety. The panel will offer insights into key challenges and provide practical guidance on how to identify, evaluate, and effectively address safety issues.
Panel Moderator
Trish Kerin | Director | Institution of Chemical Engineers Safety Centre (ISC)
Trish Kerin is an award-winning international expert and key note speaker in process safety and the inaugural director of the IChemE Safety Centre. She leads a team who help organisations share and learn in process safety. Trish leverages off her years of engineering and varied leadership experience to help organisations improve their process safety outcomes.
She has represented industry to many government bodies and has sat on the board of the Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority. She is a Chartered Engineer, registered Professional Process Safety Engineer, Fellow of IChemE and Engineers Australia. Trish also holds a diploma in OHS, a Master of Leadership and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Her expertise has been recognised with the John A Brodie Medal (2015), the Trevor Kletz Merit Award (2018) and Women in Safety Network’s Inaugural Leader of the Year (2022).
Event Moderator
Event Moderator: Traci Purdum | Editor-in-Chief | Chemical Processing
Traci Purdum, an award-winning business journalist with extensive experience covering manufacturing and management issues, is a graduate of the Kent State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kent, Ohio, and an alumnus of the Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Purdum, who has been with Chemical Processing since 2008, serves as moderator to the brand’s many webinars and roundtables. She also hosts the podcast Process Safety With Trish & Traci.
Jason Krbec | Director of Business Development | CV Technology
Jason Krbec is the Director of Business Development at CV Technology. He is also an NFPA Technical Committee Member – NFPA 652, 654, 664, 484, 68, and 69 and a professionally Licensed Engineer in Florida (PE). He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Florida.
Ryan Brownlee | Product Manager - EM Americas / SME | Pepperl+Fuchs
Ryan Brownlee has been with Pepperl+Fuchs for over 21 years and has held various roles within the company including engineering and product design, production testing, product certification, solution engineering, and management roles. He currently serves as Product Manager –EM Americas / Hazardous Locations SME at Pepperl+Fuchs. In this role, his responsibilities include managing all Enterprise Mobility (EM) products for the Americas region as well as keeping up to date on various standards and trends and supporting the organization internally on various product safety standards, particularly hazardous locations standards. Since 2014, he serves on both national and international standards committees for hazardous locations product safety standards, and is a recognized expert on the protection concepts for pressurization, intrinsic safety, and increased safety. He regularly provides training on a variety of topics related to hazardous location safety and product certifications.
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