JERRY FOREST, CCPSC


LSU Adjunct Lecturer ChE Process Safety

CCPS Fellow

AIChE Fellow

CCPS Emeritus

CCPS Planning Committee, Past Vice Chair

AIChE Process Safety Division, Past Chair

PPSS Symposia, Past Chair

AFPM APS Committee(s), Past Chair

Jerry Forest LLC | Process Safety Improvement Consulting

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

For more details on experience, accomplishments, strategic plan program implementation, and a list of publications that expound on the Jerry Forest, LLC philosophy and actions for process safety improvement, please CONTACT US