Process Safety Clinic

Louise has answered the questions from the audience

Meet Louise Whiting your course facilitator. Louise has over 11 years of experience in major oil and gas operators (BP and Shell). She is a Chartered member of the IChemE and holds the Professional Process Safety Engineer status from the institute. She has extensive experience in operations as well as experience in wells and projects. Majority of this experience is in upstream oil and gas onshore, offshore, North Sea and Iraq. She transitioned to technical or process safety just after achieving chartered status and has experience applying her skills in a range of environments. Louise is a Fellow of the Safety and Reliability Society, Chair 2022/23, Membership Chair. Louise holds a variety of qualifications including chartership, professional process safety engineer and certified functional safety engineer. Louise was managing director of Barberton Limited for 3 years then moving to found Deedah PSM Ltd in 2023.

Some previously answered Questions

Should I re-assess my existing facility using up to date engineering standards? If so, what do I do with the results if I find gaps?
Can an alarm be an IPL in a LOPA and if so, when?
What BowTie software would I recommend?
What HAZOP software should I use?
What do I do if I find a SIL3 or SIL4 in my design?
I have a safeguard which is not working, do I need to shutdown until it is fixed?
If I always look at the worst credible consequence in the HAZOP am I not missing the most frequent?