Sean O'Sullivan

Chair

Sean works for the UK safety regulator and his prior experience is in oil & gas. He is particularly interested in education, engagement and the practical management of process safety risk.

Kazym Lepessov

Treasurer

Kazym is a Safety, Health and Environment Risk Manager working for SSE Renewables operations, covering hydro, offshore and onshore wind generation, solar and battery storage, as well as development and construction projects in renewables.

Graham Ackroyd

Committee Member

Graham is currently the head of Syngenta’s Process Hazards Section. His particular areas of expertise include dust explosions, explosion protection, and electrostatics.

Helen Conlin

Newsletter Editor

Helen specialises in understanding the combined contribution of technology, people, processes and systems to system performance and risk management.

Jonathan Hall

Committee member

Jonathan is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with a background encompassing research and development, capital project delivery/commissioning and process safety risk management.

Joseph Isimite

EFCE Representative

Joseph works as an independent Process Safety Engineer supporting clients to achieve compliance with DSEAR and COMAH Regulations.

Andy Mackiewicz

Committee Member

Andy specialises particularly in DSEAR and hazardous area classification, and has worked in process safety for more than thirty years.

Peter Marsh

Committee Member

Peter has 39 years experience in the oil refining and engineering contracting businesses. His primary focus area within the S&LP SIG is learning from incidents.

Richard Mundy

Webmaster

Richard is a lead process and process safety engineer within bp. He has experience relating to upstream oil & gas, refining and petrochemical businesses.

Steven Murphy

Regional Representative - Central & Southern Europe

Steve is Head of Process Safety at Syngenta, with extensive experience particularly in hazard studies and preparation of Seveso reports. He is based in Switzerland as is an IChemE Professional Process Safety Engineer.

Carolyn Nicholls

Committee member

Carolyn's current work is predominantly with clients in the UK, working to ensure COMAH and DSEAR compliance. She has particular interest and expertise in Quantified Risk Assessment and ALARP demonstration, both for safety of people and the environment.

Christina Phang

Regional Representative - Malaysia

Ir Dr Christina Phang is a Fellow of the IChemE and a Professional Process Safety Engineer and was awarded the 2016 IChemE Franklin Medal. She is also a registered Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers (BEM) in Malaysia and Professional Engineers Board (PEB) in Singapore.

Andrew Rushton

Committee Member

Andy Rushton taught and researched loss prevention in the process industries at Loughborough University for ten years.

Panos Topalis

Committee Member

Panos currently works on risk based inspection (RBI) software, but also has considerable experience in consequence analysis. He holds a PhD in process thermodynamics.

Ian Wallis

Hazards Forum Representative

Ian is the Global Functional Process Lead for Design HSE, and Manager of the UK Design HSE Department for Fluor Corporation. He is also a trustee of the Hazards Forum.

Louise Whiting

Learned Society Committee (LSC) Representative

Louise Whiting has worked in operating oil and gas majors and now as a consultant. She is also active in SaRS and is a member of the HAZARDS Technical Committee.

Mark Wilson

Committee Member

Mark has a background in the management of top tier COMAH sites in the Teesside region. He worked with ICI, then with companies including Huntsman, Sabic, Davy McKee and Ensus.