SUMMARY
Jerry Forest is an experienced Senior process safety leader with a proven track record of process safety improvement at a unit, site, company, and industry level in the chemical, petrochemical, and refining sectors.
He applies an extensive manufacturing background in isocyanates and hydrazine propellants for practical solutions to reduce process safety incidents and promotes employee engagement and intentional competency development to foster a strong process safety culture.
His personal mission is to save lives, protect the environment, and preserve jobs by preventing Process Safety incidents.
EXPERTISE
- Assurance processes
- Management systems & assessments
- Data-driven strategic plans
- Intentional competency development
- Conduct of operations
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk-based process safety incident management
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Created “Walk the Line” operational discipline & operational readiness program, with elements now used at more than 50+ companies worldwide. These tools have a global impact on reducing human error-related process safety incidents in the industry
- Founded and led process safety in academia (network of university professors teaching process safety)
- Partnered and worked with China’s state administration of worker safety in the development and rollout of AQ/T 2034-2010 (Guidelines for Process Safety Management of Petrochemical Corporations)
- Drove a 90% reduction in process safety incidents at Celanese
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
GLOBAL PROCESS SAFETY ROLES (18 Years)
- Sr. Director Process Safety, Celanese
- Global Process Safety Manager & EHS Manager Global Engineering & Support, LyondellBasell
- Process Safety & Operational Excellence Manager, Lyondell Houston Refining
- Standards & PSM Audit Manager, Lyondell
MANUFACTURING ROLES (20 Years)
- Operations, Technical, & Reliability Manager, Lyondell/Arco
- Production Superintendent, Production & Process Engineer, Arco/Olin
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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