Preliminary Program subject to change
T3001 Safety Culture - Key to Process Safety Performance
OverviewBuilding, maintaining, and nurturing a strong Safety Culture is critical to long-term process safety performance. There are many challenges to ensuring a positive safety culture in all business operations at all locations, with additional challenges posed by acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures. This session invites papers demonstrating proactive approaches to assess, build, maintain, and nurture a strong safety culture to achieve process safety excellence.
Primary SponsorTopical 3: 2007 Process Plant Safety Symposium (T3)

Chair

Dr. M. Sam Mannan
Director
Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, TAMU
246 Jack E. Brown Engineering Bldg., 3122
College Station, TX 77843
Phone Number: 979-862-3985
Fax Number: 979-845-6446
Email: mannan@tamu.edu

CoChair

Dr. Lawrence J.H. Schulze
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Houston
E206-Engineering Building 2
Houston, TX 77204
Phone Number: 713-743-4196
Fax Number: 713-743-4190
Email: LJSchulz@central.uh.edu
Safety Culture for the 21st Century–Systems Approach with Applications
Unni Krishnan, Design, Kuwait Oil Company, Engg. Design, PB 9768, 61008 Ahmadi, 61008 Ahmadi, Kuwait
Evaluating and Improving Operational Discipline
James A. Klein, DuPont, Minneapolis, MN 55311 and Bruce K. Vaughen, DuPontTeijinFilms, Hopewell, VA 23860
Safety Climate from the Safety Experts: in Their Own Words
Dr. Stephanie C. Payne1, Dr. Mindy E. Bergman2, Jaime B. Henning2 and Carolyn J. Stufft2, (1)Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, Mail Stop 4235, College Station, TX 77843-4235, (2)Texas A&M University, Mail Stop 4235, College Station, TX 77843-4235
Process Safety Concept in Indian Chemical Industries: Evolution and Socio-Economic-Legal Changes Aftermath of the Bhopal Disaster
Dr. R. K. Elangovan, H 19, Tamilnadu Housing Board, Government of Tamilnadu, Jothi Nagar, Arkonam-631 003, India, Arkonam, India

Topical 3: 2007 Process Plant Safety Symposium