2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety

(75a) Why I am Passionate About Process Safety

Author

Louisa Nara joined CCPS in 2010 after 30 years of working in the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. She is passionate about process safety in large part due to the 5 decades of incidents that impacted her on a personal basis. These incidents have served as key motivators in shaping her career in process safety and her passion around sharing incidents, lessons learned and best practices on a global basis.

In 1968, at the age of 10, Louisa was impacted by her first process safety incident as a “key receptor”, a member of the community evacuated following a fire and toxic gas release at a chemical plant less than 1 aerial mile away. The incidents discussed have affected Louisa, her family, friends, co-workers and the global community committed to process safety.