Instructors
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 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.
Gerald Burch
  Gerald
has over 30 years of hands-on manufacturing experience, most
of this in the chemical industry as a plant manager at
Hercules, Engelhard, BASF, and Chemtrade. He has led the
implementation and enhancement of process safety management
systems at all of the sites he has managed. Gerald was an
early adopter and champion of the Responsible Care codes of
management practices, serving on various committees with the
LaPorte (TX) Plant Manager’s Network, the East Harris County
(TX) Manufacturers Council, and the Texas Chemical Council.
Gerald is a skilled team facilitator of continuous
improvement projects (trained in lean manufacturing
techniques, six sigma, human performance improvement, and
process safety) and he has managed large scale,
international change and integration projects following the
sale and acquisition of facilities. He is a skilled PSM
auditor and instructor and has experience implementing all
elements of process safety. Gerald has taught incident
investigation and root cause analysis and process safety and
safety leadership course.
He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of
Virginia and a MBA in Leadership from William Carey
University. He has served on the Board of Directors of the
George Washington University Center for the Study of
Learning and he led Virginia’s High Performance Learning
Network.
Dr. Tony Clark
 Tony
has a PhD in Chemical Engineering and 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 30 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.
Tony continues to
deliver consulting and training services to clients in UK,
Europe, and the Middle East, including LOPA analysis, PHAs,
HAZOPs, quantitative risk assessments, SIS determination and
verification, etc.
 Ginette
has more 15 years experience overall and 12 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical/
Biopharmaceutical Industries. She has worked for companies
like Wyeth, Schering Plough, Johnson & Johnson, and Bristol
Myers Squibb leading the technical training, regulatory
training, and organizational development efforts. Ginette has a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. The
first half of her career was focused on the development and
implementation of training programs and employee performance
improvement initiatives. The last years she has been
focusing on Human Reliability and Productivity Improvement
initiatives and has achieved up to 60% reduction on human
error events related to product quality, and up to 50%
reduction on departments allocated budget by increasing
efficiencies and simplifying processes.
She has authored various
publications on Human Reliability and Employee Productivity
topics including "Model for Collective Behavior Modification
in Organizations" and "Coding, Monitoring, and Trend
Analysis on Human Error Investigations" and "Creating an
Effective CAPA Effectiveness Program." Having
implemented Human Reliability programs in various
industries, she understands what works and what doesn’t when
trying to change a culture from an error tolerant
environment to an error free organizational community.
She has designed and delivered hundreds of courses through
her career including, Incident Investigation/Root Cause
Analysis (RCA) Leadership, Instructors Qualification
Program, Skill-Based Training Program for SME’s, Human Error
Prevention for Operators, and Supervisors Academy for an
Error Free Environment.
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.
 Mickey
has more than 40 years of process engineering experience,
with over 25 years in operations and
operations management. He was plant manager of three
different facilities involved in the large scale production
of highly toxic and flammable chemicals. He has led many
process hazard analyses (PHAs), including a great many
management of change reviews. He has led many
investigations and root cause analysis (RCAs) and several
large scale process safety audits and assessments. He was a
principal trainer for PHA leadership and process safety
management (PSM) courses within Arch Chemical Company for
several years and had overall responsibility for PSM
implementation at both the plant and corporate levels of
Olin Chemicals and Arch Chemicals. He has B.S. Chemical
Engineering. He has served on book writing committees for CCPS/AIChE and he is an active member of NFPA, serving on
several standards committees.
 Greg has more
than 17 years of process engineering experience, with 25+
years experience overall. He has extensive hands-on
experience in chemical operations, which includes
responsibility for effectively implementing process safety
at sites for Cytec, Degussa, and Hoechst Celanese. His last
position in the chemical industry was as operations manager.
He also has experience in performing process hazard analyses
(PHAs), investigations, and audits, and he has experience
implementing behavior-based safety programs and incident
reporting systems. He has extensive experience in helping
clients implement process safety. He has similar
experience with roll-out and implementation of Site Security
and Site Vulnerability Assessments; for instance he
led the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturer’s
Association (SOCMA) efforts in security, management systems
development, training, and member outreach.
He is
currently leading PHAs and PHA Revalidations and he is also
teaching PHA Leadership courses and other topics for PII.
He has B.S. Chemical Engineering.
 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
as been a consultant to the chemical industry, were she has
provided PSM-related and PHA/HAZOP training and consulting.
 Mr.
Woody has over 20 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. |
