William Bridges | AIChE

William Bridges

Citation name

Bridges, W.

Affiliation

Process Improvement Institute, Inc.

State

TN

Country

USA

Bill Bridges is President of Process Improvement Institute (PII). He is considered one of the leading authorities on process safety engineering and human error prevention. He has a BS/MS in Chemical Engineering and he has 30+ years of chemical industry experience in process engineering, process development, management and safety evaluation, and operations. He holds 10 US patents. Mr. Bridges has a wealth of hands-on experience in operations and in implementing PSM. His last position in the industry was as a chemical plant manager. Bill has helped many companies in the petroleum, petrochemical and chemical process industries develop, implement and assess PSM programs. Bill has written 30+ articles and has co-authroed 5 textbooks. Bill has taught PSM related courses, including PHA/HAZOP leadership and II/RCA since 1987. Besides PII, he also teaches through ASSE-MEC in the Middle East. He has trained more than 5000 in PSM-related and risk analysis-related topics.

Sessions chaired or co-chaired

Mechanical Integrity2017 Middle East Process Safety Conference

Authored

(49a) Best Practices for Writing Operating Procedures and Trouble-Shooting Guides
2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1098-4)
Four Major Gaps That Are Preventing Most Companies Worldwide from Achieving Excellent Process Safety Performance
2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1098-4)
(57ce) A Streamlined Approach for Full Compliance with SIL Implementation Standard
2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1098-4)
(14a) Recipe for a Complete Process Hazard Analysis – Especially Addressing the Key Demands from US CSB
2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1098-4)
(41a) Human Factors and Their Optimization2012 Spring Meeting & 8th Global Congress on Process Safety
(54x) Best Practices for PHA Revalidation2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety
(54m) LOPA: Performed When and By Who2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety
(49b) The Uses and Users of PHA/HAZOP Results2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety

Associated proceedings 

2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety
2012 Spring Meeting & 8th Global Congress on Process Safety
2017 Middle East Process Safety Conference
2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety