The American Society of Safety Engineers-Middle East Chapter (ASSE-MEC) is pleased to announce and invite you to the chapter symposium:

This paper describes best practices for scheduling and performing PHAs/HAZOPs, etc., during various key phases of major projects. The paper will outline the scope and content of each project phase hazard review and what the outcomes should be. The paper will present the basics, and then show best practices and examples from various companies.

Bridges is president of Process Improvement Institute, Inc., a US-based consulting and training organization that specializes in controlling risk in chemical processing and manufacturing environments. He is considered one of the leading authorities on process safety engineering, risk management, and human error prevention. He has a Bachelor and Masters degree in Chemical Engineering and has over 30 years of chemical industry experience in process engineering, process/product development, management, safety evaluation, and operations.

Stress is a very powerful resource for every employee. In this presentation you will learn the five vital skills that can charge your energy. You will learn more about the journey of transforming the stressful employee into a vital, productive one.

Dr. Abdullah Mulhim is a certified consultant psychiatrist and stress management consultant from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Institute of Health Care Professionals. He is a certified trainer from the British Academy of Human Resource Development. He completed clinical training in Mind/Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

As the business climate continues to change, it is critical to think beyond traditional safety management paradigms that limit safety to a discreet function of one department with one target area. Rather, we need to recognize that successful safety initiatives depend largely upon effective leadership. While the importance of leadership is recognized in a conceptual way, many leaders do not really know what is required of them. This presentation puts forward a basic understanding of the behavioral-based concepts, examples, and results from a variety of industries, as well as critical success factors for initiating any safety-change initiative. The concepts outlined reach beyond safety, and are applicable to all critical business outcomes.

Teg Matthews works with leadership teams to design and support implementations of BST’s technologies and services throughout the Gulf, Middle East, and UK. Teg has extensive experience helping clients drive performance and implementing change. He has worked with hundreds of government and private sector organizations from a wide range of industries to help them assess, appraise, and analyze their current situations and then to design and implement changes and solutions that lead to measurably improved performance.