WEBINAR

Process Safety Leadership Roundtable: Current Trends and Challenges

Join this interactive webinar where expert panelist discuss challenges in process safety leadership. Including managing infrastructure, adapting to new chemical processes and materials as well as maintaining safety standards amid cost pressures. Bring your questions to be answered live.

August 13, 2025

6:00 PM UTC

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August 13, 2025

2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM PT / 7:00 PM GMT

Duration: 1 hour

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Summary

The chemical industry faces evolving process safety challenges that demand strong leadership and adaptive strategies. Leaders must focus on building resilient safety cultures that pair compliance with proactive risk identification and mitigation. Current trends include the integration of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to enhance hazard detection and prevent incidents before they occur. The industry is also grappling with workforce challenges, including knowledge transfer as experienced personnel retire and the need to train younger workers in complex safety protocols.

Key challenges include:

• Managing aging infrastructure
• Adapting to new chemical processes and materials
• Maintaining safety standards amid cost pressures

Speakers

Dana Garber

Senior Product Manager

VelocityEHS

Dana Garber, Senior Product Owner at VelocityEHS, brings extensive knowledge of risk management, particularly in petrochemical hazards, to the VelocityEHS product team. His experience includes hazard identification, safety management systems, HAZOP studies, risk assessments, permitting processes, and facility siting. Prior to his current role, Dana spent ten years as a technical safety and risk consultant in the Oil & Gas industry, both on and offshore. Dana has received a Bachelor of Science Honors Degree in Mathematics from the University of York in the United Kingdom.

Timothy Heneks

Director of Engineering Services

CV Technology

Timothy Heneks, PE, Director of Engineering Services at CV Technology, is an accomplished chemical engineer with plant-level experience in combustible dust and process safety. He is a member of NFPA Technical Committees that are tasked with setting pivotal safety standards for industries, and his professional experience includes designing explosion protection systems, performing DHAs, and leading a team of safety consultants that provide practical, effective, and compliant safety solutions to protect people and facilities from safety hazards. Timothy holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida.

Moderator

Traci Purdum

Editor in Chief

Chemical Processing

Traci Purdum, an award-winning business journalist with extensive experience covering manufacturing and management issues, is a graduate of the Kent State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kent, Ohio, and an alumnus of the Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Purdum, who has been with Chemical Processing since 2008, serves as moderator to the brand’s many webinars and roundtables. She also hosts the podcast Process Safety With Trish & Traci.

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