David Moore
President & CEO
AcuTech Consulting Group
Leadership Best Practices for Excellence in Process Safety Management
Process Safety Management (PSM) is now a widely accepted management systems concept for preventing and managing risks of highly hazardous chemicals. But not all companies are seeing performance improvement, and many manufacturers, users, and transporters still are experiencing significant catastrophic losses.
• What does it take for a company’s PSM management system to excel to a level of excellence?
• How do the best companies achieve and sustain this level?
• What is the value of having this level of performance in PSM?
These questions are to be discussed in a leading-edge discussion on process safety performance and the strategies and tactics to organize, motivate, and perform to that level on a risk basis.
Leadership plays several particularly important roles in the success of the program including commitment, resources, direction, attention, and ultimately insisting on a highly active culture of process safety management.
Process safety management (PSM) has been traditionally focused primarily on technical and management systems that must be implemented to achieve compliance. But it is essential to have a clearly defined process for focusing on the underlying PSM culture to facilitate the management system to be effective and to have a breakthrough to the next level of performance.
David Moore is the founder, President and CEO of the AcuTech Group, a process safety management consulting firm based in McLean, Virginia, USA. Mr. Moore has over forty years of specialized experience and is a recognized global expert and frequent speaker on process safety. He has provided consulting services and training to corporations involved with hazardous chemicals in the hydrogen, energy, oil & gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, biotech, and manufacturing industries.
Mr. Moore has consulted on process safety to many of the world’s largest corporations and served as a consultant to US OSHA, US Dept of Homeland Security, US EPA, AIChE, the American Petroleum Institute (API), the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and the American Chemistry Council (ACC).
Mr. Moore has been an advisor to companies in improving and sustaining process safety, including through improvements to human factors and enhancing safety culture. This has included risk assessment, training, auditing, cultural improvement and management system enhancement. AcuTech was the author of the AIChE CCPS Guidelines “Essential Practices for Developing, Strengthening, and Implementing Process Safety Culture”.
Mr. Moore was formerly a Senior Engineer with Mobil Corporation; and a Fire Protection Engineer with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Mr. Moore is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Fire Protection Engineering. He is the Past Chairman of the Managing Board of the AIChE Center for Hydrogen Safety, and a past Board Member of the Energy Security Council. He serves on the Center for Chemical Process Safety Technical Steering Committee. Mr. Moore is a Fellow of the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety.