Gulf Coast ASSP Chapter Meeting

  •  February 2, 2023
     11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Topic New Methods for Learning from Incidents Involving Human & Organizational Performance

Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) issues may be complex and can cover a broad range of disciplines. Investigating unplanned events such as safety incidents and operational problems from the HOP perspective requires a different approach than conventional incident analysis methodologies allow. This presentation offers new methods that can be applied through the entire process of responding to the learning opportunities presented by unplanned events, including data acquisition, analysis, and developing appropriate and optimized corrective actions for HOP causal factors.

Key takeaways from this presentation include differentiating between HOP failure types in an unplanned event and quickly developing and validating appropriate corrective actions to maximize organizational learning and future risk reduction.

Speaker Norman Ritchie

Norman Ritchie was educated as a Mechanical Engineer at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He has 38 years of experience of project and risk management, largely in the oil and gas industry. As a Director of vPSI group, LLC, which he co-founded in 2003, Norman and his colleagues provide consulting and training in project management, performance measurement and improvement, principally in the areas of risk, loss prevention, safety, human performance and organizational learning. He is an internationally sought-after speaker and acknowledged subject matter expert. A pioneer of web-based safety applications, Norman holds a broad US patent for online job safety analysis systems.

Norman was a contributing author to the 2020 “One Percent Safer” book project. A past Chair of the American Society of Safety Professionals’ Houston Energy Corridor section, Norman was honored to be named the 2021 Safety Professional of the Year for Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. In 2022 he was selected by Society of Petroleum Engineers International (SPE) as 2023-24 Distinguished Lecturer on the topic “New Methods for Learning from Incidents Involving Human & Organizational Performance”.

In his spare time, Norman is President of the board of an animal welfare non-profit, is a Non-Executive Director of the One Percent Safer Foundation, and a GlobalScot Business Ambassador for Scottish Development International.

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Venue:   Battleground Golf Course

Address:
1600 Georgia Ave, Deer Park, Texas, 77536