June 1, 2026
9:45AM - 10:45AM

Leadership Track

De-Siloing Safety

Speaker: Rob Fisher

Safety doesn't live in a vacuum. It coexists with quality, operations, maintenance, environmental, and other organizational elements. You can be safe without being operationally excellent, but you cannot be operationally excellent without being safe! Practically applying the leadership knowledge, language, and behaviors related to human and organizational performance (HOP) can break down the walls and silos typically seen in organizations and make you a more effective safety leader. Understanding and managing human error and incidents is vital to learning and improving. Learn proven methods, processes, models, and tools you can take away and use immediately to make you a better leader and help your organization on the journey to operational excellence. Take advantage of learning from someone who has done over 400 integrations of human performance, human factors, and HOP around the world.

June 1, 2026
11:00AM - 12:00PM

Leadership Track

The Psychology of Judging Decisions: How Resulting, Hindsight Bias, and Cognitive Traps Distort Safety in High-Hazard Work

Speaker: John Grubbs

In petrochemical operations, leaders routinely evaluate decisions made under pressure, uncertainty, and incomplete information. Yet the human brain is wired to judge those decisions after the outcome is known, creating distortions that erode fairness, misdirect investigations, and undermine learning. This session takes a hard look at the forces of resulting, hindsight bias, and decision-making fallacies that quietly shape how safety professionals interpret events—often leading to oversimplified conclusions, misplaced accountability, and lost opportunities for improvement.

Through real-world examples and research-based insights, we will explore why the mind naturally exaggerates predictability, overvalues outcomes, and retrofits logic onto complex operational choices. Participants will learn how these psychological traps infiltrate safety investigations, post-incident reviews, and leadership decision-making—often without anyone noticing. Most importantly, we will focus on how to build bias-resistant processes, improve decision quality, and create a more accurate learning culture in high-risk petrochemical environments.

Key Takeaways 

• How resulting and hindsight bias distort investigations and leadership judgment
• Why poor outcomes are often mistaken for poor decisions—and how to prevent that error
• Practical tools for evaluating decisions as they were made, not as they turned out
• Methods for reducing cognitive bias in EHS reviews, reports, and leadership responses
• A clearer, more accurate framework for decision-making in complex, high-hazard operations

June 1, 2026
1:45PM - 2:45PM

Leadership Track

Authentic Leadership in Safety: 3 Key Factors to Building Unshakable Trust

Speaker: Tommy Nipp

In safety-critical industries, trust is not a soft concept it is a core operational requirement. This session explores how Authentic Leadership directly supports Human Performance (HOP) and Psychological Safety, creating the conditions where people speak up, report hazards, and learn from failure. Participants will examine how the leadership pillars of Humility, Sincerity, and Respect influence frontline behavior, near-miss reporting, and learning culture.

This session connects leadership behavior to safety outcomes, demonstrating how trust driven leadership reduces silence, strengthens reporting, and improves system learning. Attendees will leave with practical, immediately applicable behaviors that help leaders move beyond compliance toward a culture where people feel safe to raise concerns, especially when it matters most.

June 1, 2026
11:00AM - 12:00PM

The Future of Process Safety Track

Advancing Operational Discipline: A Site-Level Journey in Conduct of Operations Excellence

Speaker: Rod Leger

This presentation shares key learnings from an ongoing multi-year journey to strengthen Operational Discipline (OD) and Conduct of Operations (COO) at Ascend Performance Materials’ Chocolate Bayou site. The session will outline how the site defined, implemented, and continually refined its OD Assessment Framework to drive consistent, reliable, and safe operations across nine production units and a centralized maintenance organization. Attendees will gain insight into the tools, metrics, and governance practices used to embed OD principles into daily manufacturing activities.

The discussion will explore the practical distinctions between Conduct of Operations and Operational Discipline, the importance of leadership behaviors in shaping operational culture, and the use of key performance indicators to measure maturity and sustain progress.

Through case examples, the presentation will highlight both successes and setbacks encountered along the way—including incidents traced to OD weaknesses—and how these lessons informed targeted improvements. It will also cover the site’s evolving approach to data utilization, assessment rigor, and the continuous enhancement of its OD maturity model.

Ultimately, this session aims to provide an honest, experience-based perspective on what it takes to institutionalize Operational Discipline at the plant level—illustrating that excellence in COO and OD is not a project with an endpoint, but a continuous improvement journey driven by data, feedback, and unwavering commitment to safe and reliable operation.

June 1, 2026
3:00PM - 4:00PM

The Future of Process Safety Track

Slips, Trips and Loss of Containment - Convergence of Process and Occupational Safety

Speaker: Jimmy Miller

In the industrial process industry, ensuring both occupational safety and process safety is critical to protecting workers, assets, and the environment. While occupational safety focuses on individual worker protection and hazard prevention, process safety aims to prevent large-scale incidents involving hazardous materials and equipment failures.

Traditionally managed as separate disciplines, these safety domains are increasingly converging through regulatory alignment, cultural integration, and digital transformation. This presentation explores the synergies between occupational and process safety, highlighting how organizations can develop a unified safety approach based on comprehensive risk assessments. Regulatory frameworks such as OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) and the EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) mandate overlapping safety practices, reinforcing the importance of integrated compliance strategies.

Additionally, fostering a strong safety culture through leadership commitment, employee engagement, and training ensures that safety becomes a shared organizational priority rather than a compartmentalized function. A key enabler of this convergence is digital transformation. Advanced technologies—including IoT, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and digital twins—enhance real-time risk assessment, predictive maintenance, and incident response. By leveraging these tools, industrial facilities can bridge the gap between occupational and process safety, improving hazard identification, reducing operational risks, and optimizing safety performance.

Through case studies and industry insights, this session will demonstrate how organizations can move toward a holistic safety model, where risk management and mitigation strategies seamlessly integrate across disciplines. Attendees will gain actionable strategies to enhance safety outcomes, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience in today’s evolving industrial landscape.

*This will be a combined session with the Process Safety Track

June 1, 2026
11:00AM - 12:00PM

Environmental Hot Topics Track

Coast Guard Cyber Updates

Speakers: Austin Echols and Keiton Moore

This session provides an overview of the U.S. Coast Guard’s new Cybersecurity in the Marine Transportation System rule and what it means for regulated waterfront facilities and vessel operators. The session will cover the rule’s scope, core requirements, and how it fits within the Coast Guard’s existing maritime security framework.

The program will also feature a discussion with a representative from U.S. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston, providing insight into how the rule is being implemented within the Sector Houston-Galveston Captain of the Port Zone. Topics will include inspection focus areas, compliance expectations, and what Industry can anticipate as implementation progresses.

June 1, 2026
3:00PM - 4:00PM

Environmental Hot Topics Track

Compliance Audits, Ratings, and Penalties

Speaker: Aaron Hebert

In this session we will discuss the Audit Privilege and how to ensure you are preparing your disclosure properly:

·       The citation related to the violation is critical because it will be used to determine repeat violators even if the violation is not really a repeat issue for the same EPN.

o   The importance of the citation identified on the disclosed violation. Examples of best practices.

·       The use of Audit Privilege disclosures on the site’s compliance history ratings.

·       Pros and cons of grouping disclosure items.

The compliance history review period will be discussed:

·       This is the period when companies can review their information before it is published.

·       Review the site’s complexity score because it will impact their compliance rating.

o   Facilities are seeing lots of errors. The higher the complexity the less each violation will impact their compliance rating.

·       Did you know you get “credit” for reporting violations (found and reported under the Audit Privilege) in your score?

·       Don’t assume someone else is reviewing the compliance history…

The calculation of penalties using TCEQ’s guidance will be discussed:

·       How the TCEQ estimates penalties, with examples.

·       The effect of repeat violations on penalties.

·       How much of the penalty estimate is subjective?

June 1, 2026
11:00AM - 12:00PM

Safety Track

Stop Accepting Risk: Why Top Refineries and Petrochemical Facilities Now Require WJTA-Certified Contractors

Speaker: Micheal Johnson

WJTA training and certification deliver clear, measurable benefits to asset owners of industrial cleaning contractors: significantly reduced safety risks, faster and more predictable turnarounds due to increased time on tools,  and a robust, verifiable due-diligence defense that withstands audits and litigation. The WaterJet Technology Association (WJTA) establishes the only industry-recognized best practices for high-pressure water blasting, automated cleaning, and industrial vacuum operations. Leading gulf coast refineries and petrochemical plants are already making WJTA certification a mandatory contract specification because the safety gains and cost savings make it an easy business decision.

June 1, 2026
3:00PM - 4:00PM

Safety Track

Slips, Trips and Loss of Containment - Convergence of Process and Occupational Safety

Speaker: Jimmy Miller

In the industrial process industry, ensuring both occupational safety and process safety is critical to protecting workers, assets, and the environment. While occupational safety focuses on individual worker protection and hazard prevention, process safety aims to prevent large-scale incidents involving hazardous materials and equipment failures.

Traditionally managed as separate disciplines, these safety domains are increasingly converging through regulatory alignment, cultural integration, and digital transformation. This presentation explores the synergies between occupational and process safety, highlighting how organizations can develop a unified safety approach based on comprehensive risk assessments. Regulatory frameworks such as OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) and the EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) mandate overlapping safety practices, reinforcing the importance of integrated compliance strategies.

Additionally, fostering a strong safety culture through leadership commitment, employee engagement, and training ensures that safety becomes a shared organizational priority rather than a compartmentalized function. A key enabler of this convergence is digital transformation. Advanced technologies—including IoT, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and digital twins—enhance real-time risk assessment, predictive maintenance, and incident response. By leveraging these tools, industrial facilities can bridge the gap between occupational and process safety, improving hazard identification, reducing operational risks, and optimizing safety performance.

Through case studies and industry insights, this session will demonstrate how organizations can move toward a holistic safety model, where risk management and mitigation strategies seamlessly integrate across disciplines. Attendees will gain actionable strategies to enhance safety outcomes, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience in today’s evolving industrial landscape.

*This will be a combined session with the Process Safety Track

June 2, 2026
2:30PM - 4:00PM

Leadership General Session

Is HOP Making Us Safer or Softer? The Hard Truth About Accountability in High-Risk Work

Speaker: John Grubbs

June 2, 2026
9:15AM - 10:15AM

Safety Excellence: Award Winning Best Practices Track

Building Tomorrow’s Safety Professional

Speaker: Deanna Lambert

As workforce demographics evolve and new generations enter the field, a recurring challenge has emerged: many individuals complete collegiate and certification programs with limited real-world experience. To help bridge this gap, Marquis has partnered with Brazosport College’s Safety and Health Management (SHEM) Program and its faculty to provide meaningful, hands-on learning opportunities. Through this collaboration, SHEM students are given access to a safe, guided work environment where they can conduct audits and inspections and develop essential communication skills by engaging directly with workers. Coating booths, fabrication shops, and scaffold yards are open five days a week, allowing students to review operational data and trends and gain practical, firsthand exposure to real workplace conditions.                                                                                           

June 2, 2026
1:15PM - 2:15PM

Safety Excellence: Award Winning Best Practices Track

June 2, 2026
9:15AM - 10:15AM

Industrial Health Track

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Training & Competency

Speaker: David Decuir

This presentation introduces the foundations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explores how it is reshaping the way organizations approach workforce training and competency development.

We begin with an overview of key AI types:

·       Machine Learning – systems that learn patterns from data to make predictions and optimize decisions.

·       Computer Vision – enabling machines to interpret and act on visual information.

·       Large Language Models (LLMs) – advanced AI trained on vast amounts of text to generate, summarize, and interact in natural language.

·       Vector Databases – tools that allow fast, intelligent search and retrieval of complex data such as documents, images, or training content.

·       Agentic AI – AI that can take initiative, perform tasks, and adapt dynamically in real-world contexts.

The discussion then shifts to practical applications, highlighting how iCAN Technologies leverages LLMs to accelerate the creation of training and competency content. By combining AI’s generative capabilities with industry-specific knowledge, iCAN enables faster content development, ensures compliance alignment, and helps organizations close skills gaps more efficiently.

Attendees will gain a clear understanding of both the technical underpinnings of AI and its real-world applications in workforce development—equipping them to see how AI can drive higher efficiency, better training outcomes, and stronger competency assurance across industries.

June 2, 2026
1:15PM - 2:15PM

Industrial Health Track

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June 2, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM

Environment: Air Track

Fenceline Monitoring Data Management Strategies

Speaker: Morgan Doherty

Fenceline monitoring requirements, control technologies and recordkeeping can be challenging for facilities to implement. Each facility must accurately collect, validate, and integrate extensive emissions data from various sources. Ensuring accurate and consistent data collection, response and root cause analysis is technically challenging.

Confidence in addressing fenceline data management challenges starts with establishing a robust, centralized system. This system should streamline data collection directly from the field and labs, minimizing the risk of human error and ensuring accuracy throughout the process. By leveraging modern digital systems, facilities can efficiently store, analyze, and communicate data while seamlessly generating CEDRI reports. Implementing such a solution is essential to maintaining compliance with stringent monitoring and reporting requirements.

June 2, 2026
8:00AM - 9:00AM

Process Safety Track

Addressing Process Safety for Tank Farms

Speakers: Neil Prophet and Anna Shinkawa

This session  draws on the author's experience and lessons learned from past incidents. Using API Standard 2610 Third Edition Design, Construction, Operation, Maintenance, and Inspection of Terminal and Tank Facilities as a framework for the discussion, this presentation explores various process safety topics that relate to tank farms, and looks at issues concerning design considerations, construction challenges, and maintenance practices. Previous incidents, safe operations, and emergency response are also discussed.

June 2, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM

Process Safety Track

Critical but Misunderstood - Identification and Management of Safety Critical Equipment in New and Mature Facilities

Speakers: Dave Summers and Richard Carter

Every process and facility has hazards, and so each one has Safety Critical Equipment (SCE) that is installed and maintained to prevent hazardous events from occurring. However, there is a significant challenge in identifying which equipment should be designated safety critical, and then most effectively distributing time and resources to keep a required level of reliability. If equipment is not identified as safety critical when it should be, then critical components will not receive the maintenance and testing that they need to keep the facility safe. If too many devices are identified as safety critical, there will not be adequate maintenance resources to be able to maintain them all to the level required, and critical devices may be overlooked. Additionally, if identified safety critical devices are not maintained to a required standard and frequency, they cannot be relied upon to provide the risk reduction that is needed to operate safely.

In facilities that have been operating for many years, budget and staffing changes, shifting priorities, and lost documentation can result in safety critical equipment being overlooked or insufficiently maintained, creating unidentified and increasing risk over the years.

Any of the above scenarios can have a significant impact on the operating risk of the facility. Critical safety devices that were relied upon at the design phase to maintain a tolerable level of risk may not work correctly, increasing the likelihood of a hazardous event occurring. This increased risk may not be identified until the hazardous impact occurs.

This session will provide best practices for identifying and managing Safety Critical Equipment in order to support an effective design, reliability and maintenance program, with correct resource allocations to ensure that the operating risk of the facility is controlled to the level expected. 

It will address the key pitfalls to avoid during the design, risk assessment and operating stages, including for mature facilities, and will also discuss how to identify the impact on risk if a device cannot be confirmed to be operating correctly. By following these best practices, you can help to avoid hidden risks from growing during the operation of your process, preventing unforeseen damage to equipment, lost production, environmental impacts, or harm to personnel.

June 3, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM

Safety: HSE Industry Best Practices Track

Crafting the Perfect Blend: Learning Techniques that Brew Safer Workforces

Speaker: Melissa Briggs

Compliance training is often perceived as tedious, leading to disengaged learners and ineffective knowledge retention. This session explores how blended learning transforms compliance training into an interactive and engaging experience.

Attendees will learn how to identify what blended learning is and why it benefits modern learners, as well as how to break down training into eLearning vs. in-person opportunities for maximum impact. The discussion will also focus on communicating the value of blended learning to stakeholders, ensuring buy-in for improved learning outcomes.

June 3, 2026
2:30PM - 3:30PM

Safety Track: Industry Best Practices

Revolutionizing Safety Culture: How Artificial Intelligence Can Transform EHS to Tailor Safety Experiences for Every Employee

Speaker: Rab Walker, PMP

This discussion will explore actionable strategies for deploying AI in EHS systems, consider the implications of this technology on workforce engagement and compliance, and ultimately showcase how AI can elevate safety culture to prioritize individual needs without losing sight of the broader organizational mission. Together, we can redefine safety as a dynamic, adaptive, and personalized experience—one that safeguards not just lives and assets, but also the trust and integrity fundamental to corporate success.

June 3, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM

Process Safety for Leaders Track

From Data to Decisions: Advancing Process Safety and Risk Management Through Integrated Mechanical Integrity and Reliability Analytics

Speakers: Jennifer Lawrence and Charles Neal

In collaboration with La Porte facility of Kuraray America, Inc., Pinnacle has undertaken a multi-phase initiative to transform process safety, mechanical integrity (MI), and overall reliability performance through data-driven reliability analytics. The partnership focuses on integrating equipment data from inspection and maintenance systems (such as PCMS, SAP, and other core data systems) into Pinnacle’s Newton™ analytics environment to evaluate corrosion profiles, probability of failure, and expected failure dates across fixed equipment, piping, tanks, and rotating equipment. Through this integration, the team identifies systemic data quality issues, streamlines inspection prioritization, and aligns reliability engineering activities with real-time process safety risks.

This approach enables Kuraray America La Porte to move beyond reactive inspection scheduling—transitioning toward predictive and risk-based decision-making that directly supports OSHA PSM compliance, long-term asset integrity, and overall availability and facility performance. The presentation, co-led by Kuraray America's La Porte’s plant management and Pinnacle, will highlight: · How a collaborative “combined assessment” model drove engagement across operations, maintenance, and engineering teams. 

Quantifiable improvements in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and reduction of non-value-added inspections. Lessons learned from deploying an MI and reliability data model that unites process safety, reliability, and business outcomes. The cultural and leadership enablers required to sustain a data-centric process safety program. By demonstrating how analytics can bridge the gap between EHS and reliability disciplines, this session offers a practical roadmap for facilities seeking to modernize their PSM programs and strengthen asset risk management without compromising production performance.

June 3, 2026
2:30PM - 3:30PM

Process Safety for Leaders Track

June 3, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM

Environment Track: Water & Waste

Using AI tools to Assist with Your Waste Management Program

Speaker: Sean Easton

EH&S professionals often assume responsibility, and the related workload, for multiple roles. Moreover, each of these roles typically requires a tedious manual effort to document regulatory compliance with governing agencies, as well as perform financial due diligence and support for operational related spend.  Corporate budgets rarely approve the expense for the added full-time employees needed to assist with these required clerical tasks, forcing the EH&S professional to spend valuable time and effort on manual data entry and spreadsheet management. 

Industrial and hazardous waste management programs, including waste vendor management, are particularly cumbersome and tedious in this regard.  Managing multiple waste vendor relationships to service your various waste streams, often from a varying number of waste generating locations, requires using several third-party systems to capture all the waste data that is ultimately needed for compliance reporting and cost management.  Furthermore, ensuring your waste data and documentation matches the information submitted to the e-Manifest System by your waste vendors, now requires the use of yet another system to successfully manage a comprehensive industrial and hazardous waste management program.

In this session, you will learn about emerging AI-enabled applications that streamline and centralize this entire effort.  We will discuss tools that automate nearly all the manual clerical effort, centralize your waste program data no matter how many generating locations, waste streams, and vendors, and provide EH&S professionals complete transparency with waste volumes and vendor costs.  

June 3, 2026
2:30PM - 3:30PM

Environment Track: Water & Waste

PFAS Monitoring for Stormwater Discharges – Overview of Upcoming Regulations

Speaker: Gaurav Tripathi

This presentation will provide an overview of the recent regulatory developments proposed by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for the Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP) under the Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) program which regulates stormwater discharges from industrial activities.

The discussion covers indicator analytical monitoring required for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other notable proposed changes that will go into effect with the new MSGP on 14 August 2026. The presentation will also include an overview of upcoming regulatory changes that would apply to industrial stormwater discharges under the MSGP and steps that entities can take to prepare for these regulatory changes, particularly focusing on the PFAS sampling requirements.

June 3, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM

Emergency Response & Security Track - Track Sponsored by inFRONT

Lithium-Ion Battery and Energy Response Challenges

Speaker: Gordon Lohmeyer

Our energy response world is changing quickly! Wind, Solar and our ability to store energy in batteries has introduced new response challenges. The unique chemistry composition of Li-Ion batteries poses a new set of response challenges that we must take into consideration.

The Emergency Response & Security Track is sponsored by 

June 3, 2026
2:30PM - 3:30PM

Emergency Response & Security Track - Track Sponsored by inFRONT

Multi-Agency Response to a Pipeline Suicide

Speakers: Richard Lawhorn, Richard Meehan and David Wade

This presentation explores the tragic pipeline suicide incident that occurred near LaPorte and Deer Park, Texas in 2024. This is a case study of a man who intentionally caused a rupture in a high-pressure pipeline as a means of ending his life while causing a devastating impact on the local community. We will examine the type of pipeline(s) involved, emergency response actions surrounding the event, and how local first responders worked together with many agencies to lessen the potential risks to nearby residents, businesses and many other industrial pipeline infrastructures.

The Emergency Response & Security Track is sponsored by 

June 3, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM

Leadership Session

All-Star Women in Leadership: Inspiring Change, Driving Excellence

Panel Discussion

June 3, 2026
1:45PM - 2:30PM

Ice Cream Social in the EHS Oasis

June 4, 2026
9:00AM - 10:00AM

EHS Leadership Track

KuraSafe: Translating HSES Leadership into Action at Every Level

Speakers: Charles Neal and Vance Darr

The session will focus on practical implementation, lessons learned, and cultural shifts, offering participants with real-world examples of how intentional leadership behaviors can move safety from a program to a mindset.

June 4, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM

EHS Leadership Track

Rising into the Role: Building Safety Leadership Through Adversity

Speaker: Anna Garrett

Following the unexpected loss of a department leader, I stepped into greater responsibility within the safety organization during a time of uncertainty. This session shares how I helped maintain stability, honored existing foundations, and progressively grew into executive leadership over four years. 

Attendees will learn practical strategies for leading through adversity, building credibility over time, and strengthening a safety department while evolving it to meet higher performance expectations.

June 4, 2026
11:30AM - 1:00PM

Exhibit Hall Network Lunch

June 4, 2026
1:00PM - 4:00PM

Plant Manager Round Table (Plant Managers Only)

Closed door session for Plant Managers only

An interactive roundtable where plant managers exchange insights, discuss common challenges, and learn from peers through open, experience-based dialogue in a confidential forum.    

For Plant Managers only, you must be registered for the EHS Seminar and check-in is required at the room location at the Galveston Island Convention Center.  

Facilitator:  Carrie Phillips, Plant Manager
Chevron Phillips Chemical 

June 4, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM

Environmental Track: Stewardship & Sustainability - Track Sponsored by Mitsubishi Chemical

Oyster Shell Recycling and Reef Restoration

Speaker: Shannon Batte

Galveston Bay, the heart of the Texas oyster industry, has experienced a significant decline in oyster habitat. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) estimates over 60 percent of Galveston Bay reefs have been damaged as a result of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Ike and Harvey coupled with decades of heavy exploitation. In an effort to reverse local oyster population declines, the Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF) partners with local seafood restaurants to collect shucked oyster shells for reuse in reef restoration throughout the Galveston Bay estuary. GBF has managed the Oyster Shell Recycling Program (OSRP) since 2011, collecting over 2,200 tons (4.4 million pounds) of oyster shells. Nearly 880 tons have been incorporated in oyster reef restoration projects.

Upon their return to the bay, the recycled oyster shells serve as new oyster habitat, thus enhancing the local oyster population. The OSRP has experienced tremendous growth over the past four years with the addition of new partners and equipment. Since 2020 the OSRP has grown from 10 to 39 shell recycling partners. Additionally, GBF has reinitiated the Galveston Bay Oyster Workgroup via the Galveston Bay Estuary Program in partnership with TPWD and spurred novel research with academic partners to identify best practices in sun curing and reef restoration. GBF has also continued and expanded the Volunteer Oyster Gardening Program to seed restoration sites and increase community engagement, and began a new citizen science effort, the Volunteer Reef Monitoring Program, to further engage the community and collect valuable data. 

This presentation will cover the history of the OSRP, accomplishments and lessons learned as well as GBF’s future plans for restoration efforts.

The Sustainability and Stewardship Track is sponsored by Mitsubishi Chemical

June 4, 2026
2:15PM - 3:15PM

Environmental Track: Stewardship & Sustainability - Track Sponsored by Mitsubishi Chemical

June 4, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM

Advanced Process Safety Track

The Power of Collective Competency in Navigating Non-Routine Operations

Speaker: Wes Sasser

Session description coming soon!

June 4, 2026
2:15PM - 3:15PM

Advanced Process Safety Track

Process Safety Digitalization in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Speaker: David Drerup

A successful, sustainable PSM program should begin with a digital system that covers the 14 elements of compliance outlined in OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119. The system should also maintain compliance and alignment with the best practices outlined by the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Risk-Based Process Safety Framework (RBPS). Organizations add PSM software to streamline and improve the management of OSHA and EPA compliance, enhance safety, and reduce risks associated with hazardous processes.

This presentation will discuss the current marketplace, business drivers for PSM software adoption, core principles to build a PSM data foundation, integration, and artificial intelligence considerations, reporting and analytic considerations, cultural adoption, leveraging, artificial intelligence, building a strategic roadmap and implementation plan, along with an approach to inform the decision for future technology investments.