Gord Winkel on Process Safety and Risk Management

Gord Winkel, who is currently chair and industrial professor of engineering safety and risk management at the University of Alberta, delivered a keynote titled “Making Safety Real: Taking Risk Management to the Next Level” at the 12th GCPS earlier this week.

Winkel came to academia after a long career in industry. He has extensive experience working in the oil sands industry and joined the University of Alberta after retiring as vice president of Syncrude Canada Ltd.

In the video above, he discusses some of the main points of his talk with Kate Ziemer, vice provost of curriculum and professor of chemical engineering at Northeastern.