Professional Experience and Background
-- Graduated LSU 1962
-- 28 years with Allied Signal (Now named Honeywell International)
-- As Safety Director, had overall responsibility for safety programs at 400 locations and 160,000 employees in domestic and international operations
-- President of H. L. Richardson, Inc., providing consulting on training and safety; developing training materials and conducting seminars related to industrial safety issues for individual companies and professional associations
Consulting on Industrial Safety Programs
Worked with domestic and foreign operations on structure and implementation of safety programs
Audited aerospace, automotive and chemical safety systems
Wrote Guideline Manuals for Safety and Loss Prevention Programs
Developed and conducted conferences for management and safety professionals in U.S. and overseas
Consulting with World Environment Center (WEC) and government of India on safety training and auditing methods
Safety Training and Motivation
Developed and conducted seminars for training of safety professionals
Developed and taught motivational safety programs for supervisory and hourly personnel
Produced more than 50 safety video programs - distributed by BNA Communications
Published book Practical Safety for Supervisors - distributed by ERI for modular training of new supervisors
Developed programs and conducted seminars to train safety professional in India
Process Safety Management
Wrote and teach AIChE Continuing Education Seminar on "Process Safety Management"
Developed a series of seminars for Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) on implementation of different PSM Elements
Taught Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) techniques for Law Environmental
Consulted on structure and content of Plant PSM program
Risk Management Program
Wrote and taught the AIChE Continuing Education Seminar on the 1996 EPA RMP Rule
Prepared a series of seminars to be used with companies having small chemical operations in complying with RMP Rule