The Baker Panel Report - ABSA

SLADE GORTON is a former U.S. Senator from Washington State and member of the 9/11 Commission.Mr. Gorton’s career in public service began in the United States Army from 1945 until 1946. He served in the United StatesAir Force from 1953 until 1956, and in the Air Force reserves until 1980. Meanwhile, Mr. Gorton practiced law, and waselected to the Washington State House of Representatives in 1958. Mr. Gorton served in the Washington State legislaturefor 10 years, including two as Majority Leader.In 1968, Mr. Gorton was elected Attorney General of Washington State, where he served three terms and argued 14 cases before the U.S.Supreme Court. He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1980, but was defeated for re-election in 1986. He was thenelected to his state’s other U.S. Senate seat in 1988 and re-elected in 1994. Mr. Gorton was defeated in 2000 in one of the nation’s closestcontests, losing by only 2,000 votes.Mr. Gorton served on the National Commission on Federal Election Reform from 2001 to 2002. He also served as a member of the NationalCommission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, popularly known as the 9/11 Commission.He is currently of counsel at the law firm of Preston Gates Ellis, but served on the Panel in his personal capacity.Mr. Gorton graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1950 and earned a law degree from Columbia in 1953.DENNIS HENDERSHOT is a chemical engineer and has more than 35 years of experience in chemical process research anddevelopment, plant design and operation, and process safety. He is currently a Principal Process Safety Specialist atChilworth Technologies, Inc. and serves as a Staff Consultant to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Center forChemical Process Safety.Mr. Hendershot recently retired from his position as Senior Technical Fellow in the Process Hazard Analysis Departmentof the Rohm and Haas Company Engineering Division in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hendershot worked at Rohm and Haasfor 35 years, starting as a Research Process Engineer there in 1970.Mr. Hendershot is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and previously served on the AIChE Board of Directors(2001-2003), as an AIChE Foundation Trustee (2002-2004), and chaired AIChE’s Safety and Health Division. In addition to serving as a StaffConsultant to AIChE’s Center for Chemical Process Safety, he chairs the Center’s Undergraduate Education and Inherently Safer ProcessSubcommittees. Mr. Hendershot also served on the American Chemistry Council Distribution Risk Task Group from 1997 to 1998 and is amember of the American Chemical Society and its Division of Chemical Health and Safety.Mr. Hendershot serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Chemical Engineering Progress, Process Safety Progress, Journal of Loss Preventionin the Process Industries, and Chemical Health and Safety. Author of the chapter “Inherently Safer Plants” in the CCPS book Guidelines forEngineering Design for Process Safety (1993) and co-author of Inherently Safer Chemical Processes: A Life Cycle Approach (1996), Mr. Hendershothas published extensively on the topics of inherently safer processes and plants, process hazard analysis, risk analysis and risk management,and has published case studies, incident reports, and incident investigations.In 2000, Mr. Hendershot was recognized by the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University for significant contributionsto chemical process safety.Mr. Hendershot earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in 1970 and his M.S. in chemical engineering from theUniversity of Pennsylvania in 1978.iv The B.P. U.S. Refineries Independent Safety Review Panel