The Baker Panel Report - ABSA

Jack McCavitMr. McCavit is President of JL McCavit Consulting, LLC, a consulting companyspecializing in process safety management.Mr. McCavit worked for Celanese Chemical Company for 35 years before retiring in2005. Through his work at Celanese, Mr. McCavit developed extensive experience inoperations management and practical application of process safety management systems.Most of his career in Celanese was spent in operations and technical management in threedifferent plant sites, including serving as operations manager at the facility in Pampa,Texas. Mr. McCavit led or actively participated in the evolution of process safetymanagement systems in Celanese beginning in 1990. He was directly involved in thedevelopment and application of the systems first implemented in response to thepromulgation of OSHA 1910.119 in 1992, through efforts to improve efficiency andeffectiveness of process safety management systems, to managing continuousimprovement cycles for mature systems.From 2000 until his retirement in 2005, Mr. McCavit provided strategic process safetymanagement direction for Celanese as the manager of process safety. During that timeMr. McCavit participated extensively in the CCPS, an industry alliance of the AmericanInstitute of Chemical Engineers, the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, and theAmerican Chemistry Council process safety committee. He also participated innumerous process safety management system benchmarking efforts with several othercompanies to learn practical application methodologies throughout the chemicalprocessing and refining industries.Mr. McCavit is an active member of CCPS. He serves as chair of the CCPS committeeresponsible for the development of Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety, the nextgeneration CCPS process safety management book; as a member of the CCPS committeethat writes the Process Safety Beacon, a monthly publication of process safety messagesfor manufacturing personnel; and as a member of CCPS committees for the followingactive projectsProcess Safety Metrics ProjectRisk Tolerance CriteriaIncidents that Define Process SafetyMr. McCavit graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Science degree inchemical engineering.41