The CSChE Process Safety Management Subject Division is currently reviewing the Terms of Reference for this award. The award will be paused for 2025, and we look forward to announcing new PSM-related awards in 2026.

The Process Safety Management Award is presented to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in Canada to process safety and loss management (PSLM).

View the Terms of Reference and list of Past Winners

The 2024 winner of the Process Safety Management Award is:

 


Fred Henselwood, MCIC
NOVA Chemicals

Fred Henselwood is the Process Safety Manager for NOVA Chemicals. His very first Process Safety paper looked at the detonation properties of ethylene associated with accidental releases and was published in 1991. Since that time, he has given many more papers and presentations, including being a keynote speaker at the Global Congress on Process Safety.

Within the Canadian Process Safety community, Fred works with the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers Process Safety Management Division and with the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC) Process Safety Network. For the last 8 years, since inception, he has chaired and organized the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Canadian regional meeting. He also assists Minerva Canada and has guest lectured at both the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary. Further, he is involved with the development of CSA Z767, which addresses Process Safety Management.

Globally, Fred currently chairs the CCPS Planning Board. Through CCPS he has been involved with many Process Safety projects covering topics such as blast modeling, metrics, learning from incidents, risk-based decision making, and the energy transition. He also regularly chairs sessions within the Global Congress on Process Safety and is a CCPS Fellow.

Complementing his experiences, Fred received his PhD in Material Science/Polymer Chemistry from the University of Calgary.

Past Winners

2022

Lianne M. Lefsrud

University of Alberta
Society: CSChE
2021

Adrian Pierorazio, MCIC

Senior Director, Canada East; Jensen Hughes
Society: CSChE
2020

Srikanth Mangalam, MCIC

Public Risk Management (PRISM) Institute
Society: CSChE
2019

Marcello Oliverio

Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc.
Society: CSChE
2018

Michael Reid McPhail

Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL)
Society: CSChE
2017

Paul Amyotte, FCIC

Dalhousie University
Society: CSChE
2016

Richard Piette

Suncor Energy Inc.
Society: CSChE
2015

David Guss

Nexen
Society: CSChE
2014

Faisal Khan

Memorial University of Newfoundland
Society: CSChE
2013

Graeme Norval, FCIC

University of Toronto
Society: CSChE