>TCC/ACIT EHS Seminar

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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

7:30 - 8:30	Registration and Breakfast
	TRACK 4 Shared Learnings
	Leaders: Dewey Miles Dan Lehtola
8:30 - 9:25	Facility Siting — Is your facility compliant? Molly Myers ioMosaic Corporation Neil Prophet Senior Partner ioMosaic Corporation Facility Siting is an old issue that is getting more emphasis lately. API recently revised its standard for Plant Portable Buildings in light of recent safety incidents. Additionally, OSHA included this as a topic of interest in their National Emphasis Program (NEP) for Refineries and it is expected that it will play a role in the anticipated NEP for the chemical industry in 2009. Each facility which handles hazardous chemicals must ensure they are in compliance with all of the latest requirements. This presentation will review some of the requirements for facility siting, including the new requirements for temporary or portable buildings in API 753. We will review the issues that OSHA is focusing on for the NEP and what that may mean to your facility. Finally, we will provide some guidance on what you should be reviewing with regard to facility siting in your Process Hazard Analyses and Management of Change program.
9:25 - 9:45	Break
9:45 - 10:40	Dream Big for Safety Scott Whitelaw Vice President EHS Texas United Management What greater dream could we have than to live in a safe workplace, where everyone is free from harm and injury? Can you describe your vision of what an injury free workplace looks, sounds and feels like? There are no set rules on how to create and live your big safety dream, but in this session, we will take an interactive journey to create your Big Safety Dream.
10:40 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:55	Hurricane Ike's Impact: The Importance of Hurricane Size Chris Hebert Lead Hurricane Forecaster ImpactWeather, Inc. The 2008 hurricane season was quite active across the northwest Gulf of Mexico. By far, the most significant impact was made by Hurricane Ike, which struck the upper Texas coast on September 12th-13th. Ike was the most significant hurricane to impact the Houston/Galveston area since Alicia in 1983. Even though Ike was only a Saffir-Simpson Category 2 hurricane, it produced more extensive wind damage than Alicia, and a storm surge nearly equal to the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. This presentation will take a look at Ike’s history and its impacts across the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Coast states. Ike will be compared to other recent hurricanes and hurricanes of the more distant past using ImpactWeather’s Hurricane Severity Index, a new way of estimating a tropical cyclone’s true destructive potential. An outlook for the 2009 hurricane season will be included.
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch: Exhibitor Show, TCC/ACIT Exhibitor Show
1:30 - 2:25	Seabrook Rideout & Recovery E.O.C. Learnings Ray Cook Fire Chief Rohm and Haas Texas Hurricane Ike dealt a devastating blow to the City of Seabrook, TX. Not only were many homes and businesses destroyed during the storm, the Emergency Operating Center (EOC) was forced to relocate during the storm due to rising water. In this session, Seabrook Fire Chief Ray Cook will share the Seabrook ride-out & recovery story and the lessons learned from the experience.
2:25 - 2:45	Break
2:45 - 3:40	Rohm & Hass Recovery E.O.C. Learnings Dewey Miles Dow Hurricane Ike was the first true test of a preparedness and response plan that had been in place for years. In this session, learn how being prepared reduced down time and allowed a safe efficient startup after the storm. This session will also share lessons learned and what can be done to improve the recovery efforts in the future.