WEBINAR – 26th May 2022, 11am CST
Solving our industry’s LOTO challenges:
A discussion with BASF, SABIC and Voovio.
Join us for an exclusive webinar with Coleman Larlee, General Manager at SABIC Burkville and South American Manufacturing, and David Mihalik, EHS, Medical and Security Director at BASF Geismar, on “Solving our industry’s LOTO challenges”.
Site Manager, SABIC, Burkville Site and South American Manufacturing
Name:
Coleman Larlee
Job Title:
Site Manager, SABIC, Burkville Site and South American Manufacturing
Speaker Bio:
Coleman Larlee is Site General Manager for the SABIC Burkville Polycarbonate Site located near Montgomery, Alabama. In addition to his Burkville site leadership responsibilities, Coleman is also responsible for SABIC’s South American compounding sites located in Brazil and Argentina. Coleman joined SABIC in 2000 at the SABIC Selkirk Site located near Albany, New York. Coleman has held site and global level leadership roles in EHSS, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Supply Chain, Compounding, and Chemical Operations. Coleman has a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Colorado State University and a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Military Academy. Prior to joining SABIC, Coleman served as a Major in the U.S. Army Special Forces. In his free time, Coleman enjoys Alabama’s plentiful outdoor adventure opportunities and is an instrument rated private pilot.
EHS Hub Director at Geismar, BASF
Name:
David Mihalik
Job Title:
EHS Hub Director at Geismar, BASF
Speaker Bio:
David Mihalik is Environmental, Safety, Health, Medical and Security Director for the BASF Geismar Louisiana Site, the largest BASF facility in North America. David joined BASF in 1997 as part of Engelhard Corporation which was acquired by BASF in 2006. Prior to BASF, David spent 15 years at Dow Chemical in Plaquemine and Grand Bayou, Louisiana in various production, project, and EHS roles. David has a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Mississippi State University.
Director of Operations at Voovio
Name:
Francis Montemurro
Job Title:
Director of Operations at Voovio
Speaker Bio:
Fran spent over 30 years in manufacturing management with DuPont. He was plant manager at multiple DuPont’s Safety and Protection, Performance Materials, and Chemicals & Specialties manufacturing sites. He successfully managed high hazard chemical continuous and batch operations, and his teams were awarded the inaugural E.I. DuPont Safety Excellence Medal for remarkable injury-free performance, zero process safety events, and product distribution incidents, as well as the E.I. DuPont Engineering Excellence Award for delivering step-change improvements in business performance through an organizational transformation. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fran received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He has served in several leadership roles in industry associations and civic organizations.
Director of Operations at Voovio
Name:
Clint Jeffus
Job Title:
Director of Operations at Voovio
Speaker Bio:
Clint spent 19 years in the chemical industry. For the last 9 years he was with BASF where he held roles in Operations Management at the McIntosh, AL site and Asset Management at the Geismar, LA site. Prior to BASF, he spent 6 years with Total Petrochemicals in Operations at the Carville, LA site and within the Corporate Strategy group in Houston. He held early career roles in Operations with Nan Ya Plastics (division of Formosa) in South Carolina as well as the former ISP Elastomers site (currently Lion Elastomers) in Port Neches, TX. His educational background includes a BS in Chemical Engineering from The University of Missisippi (Ole Miss) and an MBA from Louisiana State University.
What will we discuss?
This exclusive webinar brings together a wealth of expertise from our industry to discuss a highly relevant and critical topic: Lock Out / Tag Outs.
Two senior and highly regarded experts from our industry, Coleman Larlee, General Manager for Sabic’s Burkville complex and two South American Sites, and David Mihalik, BASF’s EHS hub Director at the Geismar Site, will join our in-house experts and former operations leaders, Francis Montemurro and Clint Jeffus.
LOTO continues to challenge our industry, from disrupting operations and maintenance activities to incidents that cause fatalities and injuries. Our panel of experts will discuss what these challenges are, why they are challenges, what the industry has done to try to minimize these challenges and what else we could be doing as an industry to solve these LOTO challenges. Our panel of experts have many personal stories and feel passionate about this topic.
We expect this to be an extremely popular event. Please join us and ensure you have some questions prepared to ask our experts.
When does it take place?
Thursday, 26th May at 11am Central US Time
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