The Baker Panel Report - ABSA

ISADORE “IRV” ROSENTHAL is a former board member of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board andcurrently is Senior Research Fellow at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.Prior to joining Wharton, Dr. Rosenthal was employed at Rohm and Haas for 38 years in a variety of research, businessunit and staff positions and was Corporate Director of Health, Safety, Environment and Product Integrity at the time of hisretirement from the company in 1990.Upon his retirement, Dr. Rosenthal joined the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center to conduct research on low-probabilityhigh-consequence chemical process accidents.In 1998, President William J. Clinton nominated and the Senate confirmed Dr. Rosenthal to serve a five-year term on the U.S. ChemicalSafety and Hazards Investigation Board. At the expiration of his term as a board member, Dr. Rosenthal returned to the Wharton RiskManagement and Decision Processes Center as a Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Rosenthal’s research focuses on designing safety and healthmanagement systems that can prevent catastrophic accidents, and he has published numerous papers on this subject.Dr. Rosenthal currently serves on the Advisory Committee of the USW Tony Mazzocchi Health and Safety Center and the OSHA Reactive Alliance.He previously served as the official U.S. industry delegate to the ILO Convention that developed the Guidelines for the Prevention of MajorIndustrial Accidents. Dr. Rosenthal has been a member of the Philadelphia Solid Waste Advisory Committee, the OSHA Reform Committee ofthe American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), the Philadelphia Emergency Response Committee, the Technical Advisory Committee ofthe Environmental Management Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the OECD Risk Terminology Project Steering Group, theUniversity of California Presidents Council’s Environment, Safety & Health Panel, and the EPA Accident Prevention Subcommittee of the CleanAir Act Advisory Committee.Dr. Rosenthal holds a B.A. with honors from New York University, an M.S. in physical chemistry from Purdue, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistryfrom Pennsylvania State University.PAUL V. TEBO is a retired DuPont Vice President and a respected environmental leader who is widely credited withtransforming DuPont’s environmental stewardship practices. At DuPont, Mr. Tebo also oversaw the company’s highlypraised safety program, considered by many to be among the industry’s best.Mr. Tebo spent over 35 years at DuPont, working in various positions in research, engineering, and planning, ultimatelyserving as Vice President and General Manager for DuPont’s global petrochemicals business unit. In 1993, he wasappointed DuPont’s Vice President for Safety, Health and the Environment, a role in which he oversaw DuPont’s widelyrespectedsafety operations. In this role, Mr. Tebo also undertook to radically reshape DuPont’s environmental practices toward a program of“sustainable growth” and “zero” emission operations.Mr. Tebo retired in 2004 and is now President of the Tebo Group in West Chester, Pennsylvania.Mr. Tebo has served as National Director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and served as Chair of the Board of Trusteesof The Keystone Center and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Stroud Water Research Center. He has received the EnvironmentalLeadership, Conservation Leadership and Spirit of Keystone Awards, as well as the Management Division Award from the American Instituteof Chemical Engineers.Mr. Tebo received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University in 1965, and a doctorate, also in chemical engineering,from Lehigh University in 1968.vi The B.P. U.S. Refineries Independent Safety Review Panel