Anne O’Neal is Manager of Process Safety Culture and Competency at Chevron and an AIChE Board Member and Fellow. Her 42-year career includes several other senior positions in process safety and health, environment and safety. She also founded Chevron’s early technical career development program after assignments in process engineering, operations, maintenance, strategic planning, and creating Chevron’s first management system approach to process safety.
She earned her BS in chemical engineering from the Univ. of California, Davis, and was a founding member of their Center for Women in Engineering and a ChE Departmental Advisory Board member.
An early participant in AIChE’s Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), and a CCPS Advisory Board member since 2005, she and colleagues pioneered Process Safety Faculty Workshops which have reached 500+ globally. She also co-led the 2005 API/IPECA sustainability reporting guidelines development.