PETER PAUL HOWELL, PE, CSP

 

23 Edgewood Drive                                                                           Phone:  304.757.3997

Hurricane, WV  25526                                                       email:  phowell@markfive.com

 

OSHA Compliance . . .  Safety Performance Improvement . . .  Accident Investigation . . . Auditing for Compliance with: Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices, OSHA PSM Regulation, and EPA RMP Regulation . . . Process Hazards Analysis . . . Teaching/Coaching  .   .   .  Community Action Panel Support

 

Progressive positions in chemical industry, from Group Leader to Vice President and General Manager.  Diverse experience in plant, engineering, safety and technical group management.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mark V, Inc. Hurricane, WV                                                                             1996 – Present

President

Consult with federal/state agencies, organizations, and private industry on process safety, hazardous waste remediation, and accident investigation.

·        Develop new compliance directive for OSHA for their Process Safety Management regulation as it applies to reactive chemicals.

·        Adjunct Professor – Marshall University Safety Engineering Department (Chemical Process Incident Investigation; Process Safety Management Fundamentals).

·        Edited and helped to prepare New Environmental Remediation Technologies:  Guidance Criteria for Occupational Safety and Health, published by the Operating Engineers National HAZMAT Program.

·        Developed an Emergency Response Data Sheet, an innovative concept designed to minimize the risk to emergency responders responding to an incident.  Published on the EPA - Emergency Response Team’s website.

·        Performed accident investigations and determined the root causes for a wide range of chemical processes.

·        Performed process safety management compliance audits.

·        Performed Process Hazards Analyses.

·        Developed a Management of Change procedure for a World top-ten chemical company.

·        Wrote and edited process safety management handbook which identifies Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices, which has been endorsed by OSHA and published by the Operating Engineers National HAZMAT Program.

·        Evaluated accident reports for completeness and ability to determine the root cause of the incident.

·        Evaluated DOE hazardous waste site remediation technologies for use of recognized and generally accepted good engineering, environmental, health and safety practices.

·        Evaluated the hazards and the safeguards provided against those hazards for a community concerned about an adjacent chemical facility.

 

CDI ENGINEERING GROUP (Formerly MTI Group), Charleston, WV        1992 – 1995

Manager – Engineering and Chief Engineer (1994 – 1995)

Project Manager – OSHA Process Safety Management Project (1995)

Manager – Process Engineering (1992 – 1993)

Managed staff of 250 engineering/technical personnel in two regional offices; planned and administered annual budget of $40MM and multiple projects ranging from $1-75MM; trained 100+ engineers.  Responsible for the execution, financial performance, and quality of all projects.

·        Provided guidance and direction on the process design and detailed design of numerous facilities, expansions and improvements of chemical facilities.  Increased revenues by 75% over 3 years by: instituting total quality management process;  project manager training to manage rather than monitor projects;  developing and implementing project control procedures; and initiating the use of new technology (CADD, 3D-CADD, Photogrammetry).

·        Planned and implemented $50MM equipment information documentation project to ensure compliance with OSHA PSM Regulation 29 CFR 1910.119 (d) (3) by performing compliance audits and executing corrective engineering work.

·        Wrote general operating procedures, maintenance procedures, and project reports.  Prepared auditing protocols and compliance methodology for OSHA’s Process Safety Management Regulation.

·        Established Process Engineering Group (35 professional staff) providing Process Design Packages and performing PSM compliance work for numerous clients.

 

HANLIN GROUP (Formerly LCP Chemicals and Plastics), Moundsville, WV 1989-1992

Vice-President and General Manager (1991 – 1992)

Plant Manager (1990 – 1991)

Technical Manager (1989 – 1990)

Managed staff of 235 employees; planned and administered $60 MM annual budgets.  Responsible for all aspects of plants operation:  manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, personnel, safety, environmental compliance, quality, and financial performance.

 

·        Converted adversarial labor-management relationship into a cooperative relationship, reducing grievances 97.5% in first year.  Negotiated 3-year union contract, ratified by 8:1 majority.

·        Initiated preventive/predictive maintenance program and the preparation of maintenance procedures, increasing plant’s on-stream factor from 96 to 99%.

·        Established safety program reducing first aid cases 62% and lost time injuries 77%.

·        Initiated TQM and SPC program achieving status as ISO 9000 approved supplier.

·        Coordinated efforts of insurance carrier, engineering and marketing departments to determine cause of accidents, get plant on-line, and minimize impact on customers.

·        Completed $50MM modernization project, reducing costs, improving product quality and reducing environmental emissions.

·        Coordinated compliance program for CMA’s Responsible Care Program and OSHA’s PSM regulation.

 

PPG INDUSTRIES, Corpus Christi, TX; Pittsburgh, PA; Natrium, WV               1966-1989

Department Technical Manager (1986-1989)

Principal Process Engineer (1983-1986)

Principal Process Engineer/Project Manager  (1980-1983)

Group Leader, Project Manager, Process Development Engineer (1966-1980)

Promoted during 23-year career through a series of increasingly responsible operating, engineering, and management positions to Department Technical Manager.  Responsible for process design for new equipment and process modifications, coordinating project-based construction and maintenance, and developing new technology.  Completed start up and commissioning of new plants.  Directed accident investigation teams.

·        Led Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) teams for numerous facilities.

·        Led accident analysis teams to determine the root causes of numerous incidents.

·        Developed/designed/installed a state of the art air emission control process which brought the facility into compliance and produced $8.5MM annual savings.

·        Created new sanitizing agent for product line, increasing annual sales 15%.

·        Led teams responsible for commissioning three new plants (total $475 MM) in US and Canada.

·        Created seven new chemical processes.

 

EDUCATION

 

Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

Postgraduate study towards, Masters of Engineering/Business Administration (29 hours), Texas A&M University, College Station TX, and Marshall University Graduate College, South Charleston, WV.

Twenty plus Continuing Education Courses.

Licensed Professional Engineer:  Texas and West Virginia

Certified Trainer and Facilitator for Total Quality Management Process, Gunnison Group, 1989.

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and Chairman of Local AIChE Section;

Member, Technical Steering Committee, AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) and the Engineering Practices Subcommittee that prepared the book “Guidelines for Design Solutions for Process Equipment Failures.”

Member, National Society of Professional Engineers.

Member, National Fire Protection Association and Hazardous Chemicals Technical Committee;

Member, American Chemical Society

Member, American Society of Safety Engineers and President of the local chapter;

Member, Kanawha Putnam Emergency Planning Committee and the Plan Implementation Evaluation subcommittee;

Founding Member, Reactivity Management Roundtable of the Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemicals Engineers and member of the Chemical Processing Essential Practices subcommittee;

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

·        Candidate for Presidential appointment to U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

·        Nominated for the West Virginia Environmental Achievement Award.

·        Governor’s award for improving labor-management relations in the state.

·        Panelist, National Science and Technology Council's PPP 2000 Forum 14, When Natural and Industrial Disasters Collide;

·        Panelist, DOE, SSEB, and NEETC's Guidance Criteria for Occupational Safety and Health National Technical Workshop;

·        Member, OSHA – EPA – Chemical Safety Board Roundtable on Reactive Chemicals

·        Business Unit Technical Achievement Award for developing new air pollution control technology.

·         Listed as a Safety Professional by the National Registry of Safety Professionals.


 

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

 

·        Guidelines for Design Solutions for Process Equipment Failures;  co-author, Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1998), New York, NY;

·        Guidelines for Process Safety Concepts Assessment and Implementation, Protocol Development for Type II Innovative Environmental Remediation Technologies;  P. Howell, International Union of Operating Engineers, National HAZMAT Program (1997), Beaver, WV;

·        New Environmental Remediation Technologies:  Guidance Criteria for Occupational Safety and Health;  co-author, International Union of Operating Engineers, National HAZMAT Program (1998), Beaver, WV;

·        Emergency Response Data Sheet (ERDS) Preparation Protocol (with worked example); P. Howell,  International Union of Operating Engineers, National HAZMAT Program (1999), Beaver, WV;

·        Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards, B. Johnson, S. Rudy & S. Unwin, Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2003), New York, NY (peer reviewer);

·        Relief System Design for Reactive Systems – Get the Facts; P. Howell & G. Melhem (2003), ioMosaic, Salem, NH;

·        There Are Holes:  Peter Howell, July 2003, ioMosaic Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 2, Number 2, Second Quarter 2003; ioMosaic, Salem, NH;

·        Recommended Practice 101 – Control Of The Hazards Associated With Reactive Chemicals; Reactivity Management Roundtable Conference, May 19, 2004, Boston, MA;

·        Guidelines for Mechanical Integrity Systems, Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2006), New York, NY (peer reviewer);

·        Designing Emergency Relief Systems for Runaway Reactions, Peter Howell and Georges Melhem; Chemical Engineering Progress, September 2005; the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, NY;

·        Recommended Practice RP-101 Controlling the Hazards Associated with Reactive Chemicals; 3^rd International Symposium on Runaway Reactions, Pressure Relief Design and Effluent Handling, November 1-3, 2005 Cincinnati, Ohio, Organized by the Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS) Users Group, 2005,  the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, NY;