PII
provides the highest value training and consulting
services related to process safety management, risk
management, and process reliability
In 2003, the
Process Improvement Institute, Inc. (PII) was founded to
help companies meet their safety, risk, and reliability
challenges. By offering world-class training and consulting
services, the company is based on the outstanding reputation
for quality and excellence of the founders and is building
on this reputation world-wide. The founders have had the
highest reputations in their fields for many years, and each
has considerable experience in meeting client needs while
they worked as managing directors at other consulting
companies or training institutes.
 PII
has already delivered training and consulting services in
the USA, Canada, UK, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab
Emirates; and the list is growing rapidly. This international effort helps PII and
VECTRA stay focused on implementation of management systems,
support services, and training that will have immediate and
continuing payback of your investment.
Most other consultants and trainers only provide
“compliance” services – we do not. Instead, PII finds the
best approaches to risk management, process safety
management, and reliability management to fit your specific
needs and company culture. This is one reason our company
experts are in such demand world-wide – because we deliver
the highest value of service by customizing what we do to
each client’s need. The other major reason we are in such
demand is because of the many years of industrial experience
of our providers. Each of PII’s experts has many years of
implementation experience as they worked in the chemical and
related industries before becoming consultants and external
trainers. Many other consulting companies will sell you
services and training from “experts” who have only ever been
consultants. This is of little value to you compared to
using consultants and trainers who have learned what works
and doesn’t work by actual experience in settings similar to
yours.
PII and it’s associates specialize consulting and training
in:
- Process safety management (PSM) and risk management
programs (RMPs)
- Management of change (MOC) and PSSR
- Process hazard analysis (PHA), including HAZOP and
FMEA-based studies
- Safety Analysis, including Design Safety Analysis
for US Department of Energy facilities
- Quantitative risk analysis (QRA), including Layer of
Protection Analysis (LOPA)
- Procedure development and writing for operations and
maintenance
- Root cause/failure analysis and development and
incident/accident investigation
- Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and
mechanical integrity (MI) implementation
We serve clients in a variety of industries and facilities,
including: chemical, petrochemical, oil and gas, nuclear,
semiconductor, pharmaceutical, hazardous waste, pulp and
paper, manufacturing, mining, exploration, utilities,
transportation, defense, and aerospace. Our principal
engineers are internationally recognized experts who have
extensive experience in the analysis of complex engineered
systems. Our commitment to quality performance and customer
service is underscored by our high percentage (~80%) of
repeat business.
LOPA and SIS Expertise:
William
Bridges and Revonda Tew have served as chair or co-chair of
6 major international conferences on process/safety and
human reliability and they has authored or co-authored over
25 articles/papers on related topics and was a co-author of
the following definitive textbooks for AIChE’s Center for
Chemical Process Safety (CCPS):
-
Non-SIS Independent Protection Layers, CCPS/AIChE, 2008
[pending] (chair and main author) (this will be an
essential supplement to the original LOPA book he
co-authored)
-
Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, CCPS/AIChE,
2008 [pending] (3nd Edition) (this is
the definitive text on performing PHAs; Mr. Bridges is a
co-author
-
Layer of Protection Analysis, CCPS/AIChE, 2001 (co-chaired
committee) (this is the definitive text on
semi-quantitative risk assessment)
-
Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, CCPS/AIChE,
1991 (2nd Edition) (this is the
definitive text on performing PHAs)
PII
staff
has led
or actively participated in over 300 PHAs (qualitative risk
assessments or HAZOPs; most of these were of entire units),
over 200 PHAs of changes to plants, over 500 LOPA-based
risk assessments, many full quantitative risk
assessments, over 100 major investigations, and over 25
major PSM-type audits. They have developed and implemented
effective MOC programs, procedure writing protocols, and
hazard review (risk assessment) methodologies.
Want to find out more about our
Safety Instrumented Services (SIS, to determine the
appropriate Safety Integrity Level [SIL]) or our Layer of
Protection Analysis (LOPA) Services?
For the links below to:
SIS and SIL services
LOPA services
LOPA Training
Our Experts – Your Solutions
PII engineers have years of practical in-plant experience.
During PHAs and other qualitative or quantitative risk
assessments, our experts will choose the best combination of
various risk analysis techniques (such as HAZOP, FMEA,
What-if, LOPA, QRA) weighing how well each method applies to
actual plant systems and operating practices while taking
into account the overall analysis objectives. During
management system implementation assistance, we will bring
together our experiences and merge these with the
experiences of your internal experts to create systems that
fit your company culture. PII personnel have dozens of years
of experience in implementing process safety, risk, and
reliability management systems in chemical plants and other
industrial settings. Many are previous managers of such
systems within chemical plants.
Our experts also have considerable experience helping
clients develop programs to satisfy the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration's (OSHA's) PSM regulation, 29 CFR
1910.119, and the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's)
RMP rule, 40 CFR 68, and similar regulations in Europe, such
as Seveso II requirements (COMAH).
So, whether your needs are implementing comprehensive
management systems for process safety, risk, or reliability
management or are more tightly focused on compliance, our
staff will help you design the optimal combination of
training, coaching, and consulting services to meet the
needs you have. This is the most cost-effective way for you
to quickly acquire the capability you need to develop and
maintain effective management systems and related expertise
such as leading risk reviews, performing incident
investigations and root cause analysis, and managing
changes.
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Click here to find out more about the many Training and
Hands-on Coaching Services offered by PII and its associates
world-wide. Our training-related services are designed
to transfer all the experiences we have gained to your
staff; to ultimately make you independent of consultants.
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Click here to find out
more about the many Contract and Consulting Services offered
by PII and its associates world-wide. These services are
intended to augment your staff needs (if your internal
experts are overloaded) or to allow you to bring in
expertise that you are currently missing.
LOPA and SIS
Experts from PII 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.
 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.
For More Information
To learn more about how PII can help you meet your safety,
risk, and reliability needs, please call us at 1.865.675.3458
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