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 Jane Cutler
Jane Cutler was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA) in September 2009. NOPSA is the national health and safety regulator for the Australian offshore petroleum industry.
Prior to this, she was a senior executive with Woodside, responsible for the proposed OceanWay LNG import facility in Los Angeles before locating to Perth to lead the Sunrise LNG Development. Previously, Jane has held chief executive positions in the financial services industry following a number of roles with BHP Petroleum in Australia and Vietnam. She commenced her career as a drilling engineer with Esso Australia.
Jane has a Bachelor of Engineering (Auckland), Master of Business Administration, and Master of Environmental Studies.
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 Jeff Edwards
Jeff is currently the head of Safety for Shell’s Upstream Americas Business. In this role he is responsible for Safety Systems Engineering, Incident Investigation, as well as the development and maintenance of safety standards for Shell’s Upstream activities in Canada, the United States and South America.
Prior to this role, Jeff was the head of HSSE-SP for Shell’s EP Technology organization. In this role he was responsible for the delivery of Health, Safety, Security, Environmental and Social Performance capability in support of Shell’s Upstream major projects across the globe.
Jeff joined Shell in 1983 after receiving his BS in Chemical Engineering. He worked initially in sour gas production and processing followed by a move into project management. Jeff is also a member of the Steering Committee for the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Institute at Texas A&M University.
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 Mark Fleming
Dr. Mark Fleming is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Saint Mary's University. He received his Masters degree in Human Factors from Aberdeen University and his PhD in Psychology from The Robert Gordon University in Scotland. Mark is an applied psychologist with nearly 20 years of experience in industrial health and safety management in the offshore oil and gas industry. Currently, Dr. Fleming’s research includes investigating methods for measuring and improving safety culture, safety motivation, safety leadership, non-technical skills of high performance teams, health climate and aviation safety. He was one of the founding members and former Director of the CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Centre, a centre of research excellence at Saint Mary's University.
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 Steven A Flynn
Steve was appointed Vice President for Health, Safety, Security & Environment, BP Group in November 2007.
Steve graduated in Chemical Engineering from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1981. Steve went on to earn Masters and PhD degrees from Manchester for his research work, prior to joining BP Research at Sunbury-on-Thames in 1984.
Steve spent the early part of his career with BP in technology, initially involved in mineral processing and going on to coordinate BP’s environmental technology programmes in the early nineties. Since then Steve has had a variety of roles in the area of Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) management in the Exploration and Production business. This included senior roles in North Sea operations in the late 1990’s, and more recently as HSE Manager for BP’s Gulf of Mexico Projects. Steve was also Head of HSE for Exploration and Production during the BP Amoco merger and spent an assignment in BP’s corporate planning department in London supporting executive management on strategy, commercial planning and financial analysis.
Following the Texas City explosion in March 2005, Steve returned to London to support the development of BP’s strategic agenda in the area of Safety and Operations prior to taking up his current role.
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Mark Healy
Mark is General Manager and Sable EPCM Contract Manager for AMEC Black & McDonald, directing all aspects of the company’s operations since 2005. Amec Black & McDonald has recently been awarded a renewal of its 5 year Sable Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Maintenance contract for ExxonMobil. Mark previously coordinated services for ExxonMobil since First Gas at the end of 1999 as part of a well-known and respected group of Atlantic Canadian companies. During Mark’s tenure in this role, the volume of work from SOEI/ExxonMobil grew significantly and led to the renewal of the general services contract.
Mark is a native Haligonian. After graduating from the University of New Brunswick in civil engineering in 1985, he began his career as a design engineer for the City of Saint John. He was then a systems engineer on the Canadian Patrol Frigate Program until 1989. Since then, Mark has held roles as Project Manager for the design of a Tugboat for ECTUG and Contract Manager for the construction of 12 Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels for the Navy. Just prior to joining AMEC Black & McDonald, Mark was Director of Facility Services responsible for the provision of engineering support, project management, maintenance support and fabrication for the oil & gas, pulp & paper and utility industries.
Mark has a reputation as a team builder with a strong focus on customer service and is committed to exploring strategies to improve industry’s role in the growth of the East Coast oil & gas business. He is the current Past Chairman of the Offshore/Onshore Technologies Association of Nova Scotia. Mark has been working closely with industry players to promote further exploration and development to ensure we have an offshore industry that is vibrant and sustainable.
In the community, Mark has been very active as a youth baseball and hockey coach, Cub Leader and director of a resident’s association.
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 Torleif Husebø
Discipline Leader for process integrity
Torleif Husebø is Discipline Leader for process integrity in the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway. He is also responsible for the Trends in Risk Level program of the PSA. Trends in Risk Level measure the impact of HSE related issues of the Norwegian petroleum industry in order to identify areas which are critical for HSE and improve the understanding of causes of accidents and their contribution to risk.
Torleif has over 20 years of experience from the petroleum industry. He has a MSc in Electrical Engineering.
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_de_Jong.jpg) J. W. (Jan) de Jong
Inspector-General of Mines for the State Supervision of Mines
Mr. de Jong is presently the Inspector–General of Mines for the State Supervision of Mines, Netherlands. The State Supervision of Mines is a supervising agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. It ensures that the extraction of natural resources in the Netherlands is carried out in a socially responsible way. Supervision of oil, gas, salt and marl mining in the Netherlands covers safety, health, environmental matters, subsidence, earth tremors and the effective production of minerals.
Mr. de Jong received a Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering and specialized in energy-technology from Technical College. He also studied at Heriot Watt University where he earned a Masters degree in petroleum engineering. His thesis subject was the cleaning of cuttings from North Sea drilling rigs.
Mr. de Jong worked from 1975-1989 for Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij (SIPM) where he worked in the drilling operations department in various functions such as trainee-driller, assistant driller, driller, well site petroleum engineer, operations engineer and toolpusher within several SIPM operating companies in the Netherlands, Oman, Brunei and the UK. During the last year working in the drilling engineering / research departments as a member of the SIPM/KSEPL drilling cost reduction spearhead team, initiating and assisting in the implementation of cost-reducing measures (technical and economical) within various operating companies of Shell. Disseminating the experience with these measures throughout the group of operating companies of the Shell group. At the same time coordinating a number of drilling-research projects. Co-author of several exploration and production and research reports.
Since 1987, he has worked for the State Supervision of Mines (SSM). Commenced as Head of Operations, responsible for the operational activities, i.e., inspecting, auditing, investigating, enforcing and assessing of plans, programs, reports and safety cases. Since 1992 special responsibility for the management of change (from hardware inspections towards auditing , verification and monitoring of management systems) and stimulating the companies to adopt and implement integrated management systems for safety, health and environment based on quality management systems like ISO 9000 and ISO 14000.
Mr. de Jong was appointed in 1989 as Deputy Inspector General responsible for advising the ministry, drafting of regulations, contacts with employers (and their associations), employees (and unions), other governmental agencies and the media. Since 1997, he has been responsible for directing the supervision towards a process based approach with special attention for critical sub processes and activities. Convincing, stimulating and supervising that the industry does the same and adapt their management accordingly was part thereof. Company Environmental Plans, Environmental Impact Studies and Safety and Health documents are the most important instruments for the management of risk for both the companies and for the Dutch government supervising the mining activities.
Mr. de Jong was finally appointed as Inspector–General of Mines in 2003 responsible for managing the SSM organization as a whole.
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 Jason P. Mathews
Jason Mathews is a Petroleum Engineer for the Minerals Management Service (MMS) in the Offshore Regulatory Program, Accident Investigation Branch. His office is responsible for discovering accident causes and trends, and identifying means to prevent recurrence of the accidents and enhance safety and environmental protection on the OCS. The results of accident investigations and data analysis performed by the Accident Investigation Branch are used to identify the need for technical research, new/revised regulations and standards, changes in inspection strategy, safety workshops, and other appropriate actions.
Jason has 7 years of experience with the MMS with offshore experience in drilling, production, and workover operations in the Gulf of Mexico. He also represents the MMS in multiple industry workgroups developing recommended practices and technical bulletins for station keeping of mobile offshore drilling units, design, and assessment of Outer Continental Shelf platforms, utilization and inspection of polyester mooring systems, medical evacuations, and the performance of offshore lifting events. Most recently, Jason took the lead in representing the MMS in their IRF performance measures responsibilities.
He graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering in 2003.
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 Øystein Michelsen
Executive vice president, Exploration & Production Norway
Executive vice president in StatoilHydro since 2008 and Statoil ASA since 2009.
Recruited to Hydro’s research centre in Porsgrunn in 1981, he was attached to Hydro Oil and Energy division from 1985, and was head of the operations unit for Hydro’s oil activities from 2004. He has been senior vice president for StatoilHydro’s Operations North cluster since 2007.
MA in engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in Trondheim.
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 Magne Ognedal
Director-General, Petroleum Safety Authority Norway
Mr. Ognedal is a graduate from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1967) with a BSC in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
He has experience from automation of ship engine rooms and in automatisation of industrial processes, and he has also lectured in these topics at the Royal Navy Ship Automation College in Stavanger.
Employed by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate since 1974, starting as a Petroleum Engineer, later became Section Manager and from 1980 Director Safety and Working Environment Division, dealing with all aspects within safety and working environment for Norwegian offshore installations.
Magne Ognedal was appointed Director-General of the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) which was established in 2004. The PSA is the government agency charged with overseeing safety and working environment conditions related to the petroleum activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and specified onshore facilities.
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 Robert Paterson
Robert Paterson is Oil & Gas UK’s Health, Safety and Employment Issues Director. Robert is responsible for managing and coordinating development of industry policy for a wide range of health, safety, employment and skills issues on behalf of the industry including those relating to asset integrity, helicopter safety and business continuity.
Robert worked previously as an Operations Manager within HSE’s Offshore Division where he managed a number of front line inspection and strategy teams. While in HSE Robert was closely involved throughout the development of the post-Piper offshore regulatory framework for health and safety, and in the provision of legal and enforcement advice and guidance to inspectors. Prior to this Robert spent several years leading an inspection team.
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 Karlene H. Roberts
Professor Emeritus, Haas Management of Organizations Group
Positions Held
At Haas since 1968
2008-present, Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business
1968-2008, Lecturer to full professor, Haas School of Business
Research Psychologist, Institute of Industrial Relations
Chair, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management
Visiting Positions
Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Current Research and Interests
The design and management of organizations and systems of organizations in which errors can have catastrophic consequences. The results of this research have been applied to U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations, the U.S. Coast Guard, The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), The Federal Aviation’s Air Traffic Control System, Gard Services, British Petroleum, NASA, and the medical industry.
Selected Papers and Publications
"A New Approach to Risk: The Implications of E3," with R.G. Bea, et al. Risk Management.
"Risk Mitigation in Healthcare Organizations and in Aggregations of those Organizations," with M. Grabowski, in Human Error in Medicine, edited by M.S. Bogner, 2nd ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
"Fair Winds and a Following Sea." Currents (May 2008): 17-18. (Currents is a publication of the American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection and Indemnification Association.)
"Decision Making in High Reliability Organizations," with V. Desai and Kuo Yu, in Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making, edited by W. Starbuck and G. Hodgkinson, 194-210. London: Oxford., 2008.
"Changing a Pediatric Sub Acute Facility to Increase Safety and Reliability," with D.W. Van Stralen, R.C. Calderon, and J.F. Lewis, in Patient Safety in Health Care Management: Advances in Health Care Management, edited by J.D. Blair, M.T. Fottler and G.T. Savage, 251-274. West Yorkshire, England: Emerald, 2008.
"Reinventing Flood Control," with D.S. Farber, et al. Tulane Law Review 81 (2007): 1085-1127.
Teaching
Introduction to Organizational Behavior, UGBA 105
Honors and Awards
Docteur Honaris Causa, Universite Paul Cezanne – Aix, Marseilles III
Fellow, Academy of Management, American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society
Recent research grants from National Science Foundation; France Telecom; and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Emerald Management Review Citation of Excellence in Management for one of top fifty (from 15,000) management articles of 2006 (with Peter Madsen, Vinit Desai, and Daniel Wong), 2007
Fellow, Center for Program/Project Management Research, University Space Research Association (sponsored by NASA), 2004-2007
Earl F. Cheit Honorable Mention for Excellence in Teaching, Undergraduate Program, 2002
George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management, for "Organizations, Technology, and Structuring," with M. Grabowski, in Handbook of Organization Studies, edited by S.R. Clegg, C. Hardy, and W. Nord (1996), 1997
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 Steve Walker
After obtaining a degree in Chemical Engineering and working in industry, Steve joined the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) 33 years ago. During his time in HSE Steve has worked in a wide number of operational posts (covering industries such as major hazard chemical plants, the offshore industry, railways, construction, agriculture and general manufacturing), providing proactive inspections/audit, accident investigations and enforcement activity. Whilst HSE’s Assistant Chief Inspector of Railways he took the lead in the investigation of the Ladbroke Grove rail crash in 1999, the biggest rail incident in the UK for some 10 years.
Steve also spent 5 years work on international and national policy for the transport of dangerous goods, including representing the UK at United Nations and European Union levels.
Steve moved to HSE’s Offshore Division (OSD) in 2004. During his time in OSD he has had responsibility for the safety regulation of the Southern North Sea and all diving activities throughout Great Britain, offshore structural and marine integrity issues, and most recently offshore strategic issues, cross-cutting specialisms such as human factors, and business delivery. He took up the post of Head of OSD in September 2009.
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