WEBINAR
Operational Readiness: Reacting to Plant Emergencies
In this on-demand webinar, we discussed how to prepare plants for emergencies, whether an emergency caused by a hurricane, prolonged freezing temperatures, or loss of power.
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.
North America Market Coordinator at Voovio
Name:
Christian McDermott
Job Title:
North America Market Coordinator at Voovio
Speaker Bio:
Christian began his career with a major EPC company, working in management consulting and project management roles in the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates. He has been with Voovio for over ten years and has become a leading expert in enhanced reality and knowledge automation solutions for the process industry. Christian has a BA and MSc from University College London and an MBA from IESE Business School.
This session looked at how operators can be prepared for unplanned events such as extreme weather events, loss of a utility or other emergencies.
Key takeaways of the webinar:
- We talked about most common incidents. Clint stated that “According to CCPS half of process safety incidents occur during startups , shutdowns and other events that occur infrequently”.
- Clint also explained why dealing with unplanned events has become even more challenging nowadays: “There are a few factors currently in play that make these issues even more difficult than they have been in the past”.
- We discussed how plants can respond to this: “The challenge in the industry is: How do you prepare the organization for those procedures, those infrequent, abrupt events that will happen?”, asked Fran and shared actionable insights.
- We gave insights on why operators need the right technology to manage process upsets correctly during unplanned events and how it can help them to practice, demonstrate proficiency, and feel more confident in managing these events per established procedures.
- We showed customer shared results and answered participants’ questions about the topic in the Q&A after the presentation.
To see the whole webinar for yourself, you can watch the video below:
