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[Music] I'm really excited to be here today Sandoz tell you about why I'm passionate about coop pipeline safety management systems and one of my earliest memories [Music] so I grew up with the cousin that survived a catastrophic accident when I was three I was out of family events and we were my cousins and I have an eight-year-old cousin JJ my cousin Jason was five and I was three and I was really excited because my aunt methyl my uncle raced BMX dirt motorcycles and they were going to go to the race and my other camp was offering to take all my cousins and I the race I got there with the big kids so we get to the race and it was you know early on we were warned there was a fence sort of similar to that snow fence that was the only fence to track and we were warned it was a memorial race and not to get too close to the fence and it was a very hot summer day and a member Frank my big strong cousin JJ he was in charge of me at this event and he took me around this event and he had me by the hand and we were what we felt like wasn't too close to the fence and that was when we heard and saw the roar of the bike coming towards us the next thing I know I felt like I was pushed aside and my cousin was on the ground and he wasn't moving and his head was cracked open and that's the force of the bike had pushed him into a parked car and that was what split his skull than that thing there was only four foot between the plastic snow fence and where the end of the track was as you can see that's a picture cut before the accident and after the accident he was left permanently brain-damaged so I grew up watching him learn how to walk and how to talk again there was three things that I learned from that day and that had greatly influenced me in my life danger can come seemingly out of nowhere at you and the improbable does happen to someone and to that the personal consequences of this type of injury they don't just last that day it changes the fabric of that family's life forever it's not just the injured person it's the caregiver to the mom the dad it's the siblings it really isn't just a one-time thing it changes them forever and three that these types of accidents are preventable and typically it's not just one thing that goes wrong it causes the accident there's several things that happen in order for that accident to occur these are typically low frequency with high consequence type of events so back to my story that day and we were there and we were waiting at the hospital for what seemed to be hours before the my husband died were in the park not two or too little to be in there with my other aunt and we waited for what 70 hours and they took us up to the hospital room and I believe that was because they weren't sure I cousin was happening and they wanted to make sure that my other cousin who was his little brother had chance to say goodbye before the era of knowledge and so we had that opportunity and I think evening by the time you actually got home it was quite late in the day and from all the chaos as well before cell phones you know really was a whole lot of information that had been related to my parents or anyone that wasn't there because they were switching hospitals we were in the middle of rural Iowa so a very small town hospitals much larger town and my cousin was airlifted and really was until I got home that my parents my aunts and uncles and grandma saw how close to that day the rest of us work because it was until I got home that day that the blood that hit me from my cousin was cleaned up so I grew up and I loved the math and science and solving problems so there's at I inherited that natural gas and pipeline safety nanosystems I swear and I became a chemical engineer and I've worked I've had the privilege of working in several different industries and I've been really fortunate to find my calling in my current role as Florence improvement manager the planning pipeline safety management systems and I really feel that this is the most important role and effort that I've ever worked on in my career and the efforts that what this standard that I'm working on implementing at the company at utility company that I work for they are focused on increasing public safety co worker safety and emergency responder safety so I've had the benefit of having working seen similar systems and other industries so what is a pipeline to command system its API 1173 it's American Petroleum Institute it's recommended practice and basically AJ has voluntarily committed to implementing this standard and I'm going to talk to some of these things but I'm not going to hit all the bullet points that you picked before but as something incident with my cousin some of those implements but some of those elements that were implementing when you look at the incident with my cousin I mentioned it was a memorial race and what that means is if someone had died at that rates the year before and so if the people that had run that track that taken the time to learn from a prior incident perhaps my cousin would have been in and injured that day and those same rules and standards apply really to any type of Industry and that's what we're hoping to use in the utility company I work for is applying things that happen elsewhere so that we learn from things that happen at other companies and other utility companies across the world really secondly other types of things that tie in from the event and the accident that hurt my cousin I mentioned that orange vest and I call it kind of a metaphorical orange vests because to a three-year-old child that appeared to be a safety barrier but clearly you know as an adult with an engineering degree I know that wasn't what we would call it inanimate inadequate safeguard and really that's part of what the standard calls the industry to do is to look for those things that appear to be protecting the public and protecting our customer coworkers but really aren't so looking for that risk mitigation and in trying to mitigate back let's try to avoid meeting these elements to you but I'm gonna tie them into where they apply in incidences that have happened across the country really what inspired this standard so the events that is picture behind me is what inspired the creation of the standard mysterion was released Cox mentally four years ago and this is a singing Bruno it's an event that happens it's a line rupture event that happened in San Bruno California and ing to the National Transportation Safety Board report which is the governing body that investigates catastrophic instances like that's what happens in the chemical industry the oil industry they're the governing body that does those investigations the following immunity follows factors contributed to this catastrophic accident so what happened in this event is the company was was doing some tests with their control system and the backup power for that failed and it allowed the lion to go to its maximum allowable operating pressure which should not have been a problem and unfortunately in this scenario it was it's the documentation of the records or that particular line were inaccurate and it actually caused the line that overpressure and so when above the specification even though it showed that should have been okay secondly the construction standards at the time when it was put in the 1950s it was twittering when they did the investigation and the analyze what was left of that pipe in that section that went they found that it wasn't put into the standards of that day and time and finally one of the other elements so these all kind of go into different elements so documentation of records is an element and there's a lot of focus in math we're working on and all the companies that are implementing the standard are working on construction oversight is another element Emergency Response as an element and this particular case utility company that was responding they actually responded fairly quickly they were there within an hour and they had the gas shutoff the issue was as the employees that were qualified that respondent heard about it through the media coverage not for the company that they were working for and so really what that emergency response prepared and element calls utility ins free to do it should ensure that if in the event a worst-case event happens that were as prepared as possible that you do what we need to do and to minimize the events that are happening really you know every type of energy system has risks there's no Energon system out there that doesn't have risks that have to be managed and mitigated and what this standard does is it helps minimize those so those are the four picture and after picture and during pictures it's a little bit out of order but there was really close to eight people that lost their lives in that incident 60 or 70 homes that were forged so when my cousin's element you know bouncing back and forth a little bit but going to the emergency response island when we were there waiting so you might have took the long time for the ambulance to get there we were in out like uh trading in trouble do you think about today when you go to a football game and there's the ambulance sitting there because people understand that that's important they thought about them prepared that's really the same type of thing with the emergency response element it's not having the ambulance there but trying to think of everything to go wrong and thinking through those improbable scenarios and having a back-up plan in place there's also an element called leadership and management commitment and basically what that means is similar to the incident would be vented my cousin that brave and tempered life skeet he will never have a good short-term memory he can't live on his own if the owners of that track had reviewed their risks with that point in the track the taxi would not have been injured and the previous owners would actually lost the track from the incident before the event the year before so it wasn't an unknown with my cousin in the health insurance company that is that he was covered by actually sued that track and it was closed because it was you know what is considered an organizational accident there's a lot of things that were designed from the track design in itself only having four feet you've been to a race car race these days and there's generally besides a much more sufficient barrier there's several spaces and that's intentional because you could have a car or a bike come through them you can also have to breathe so that protection of the crowd is pretty important and industry that I work in other types of you know it's similar nature is you have to have things designed properly so the element that goes that is operational controls that do's said really appreciate everyone being here and taking the time to listen and if you're leading hearing if there's there's a little bit take how that how does apply because the events that I showed you are a very rare occurrence and that's why they're harder to work with and that's why there's so many elements in that standard is is it actually takes a lot more effort to prevent something that happens less frequently that has a higher content that's because you have to take through and you have to hold yourself to a higher standard remember occurring most of the things that happen in it a natural in our industry is people not realizing that's a gas line there and actually hitting it so about 40 percent of the events that we have are actually from people not planning that they're going to be digging and they don't call what's called of one call number so if you're at home and you're planning big take the time to call because it is a you know serious consequence that you can put yourself in and you're putting my co-workers potentially at risk acute Dell they've got to come in and fix anything that you know is occurring and in Illinois that number is Julie or a11 the other part is is if you have a gas leak or you think you having actually don't be spared a call it's both the Julie number is free as is if you think you have a gas to get your home calling the gas company come out and check it you're not going to be charged for that and you shouldn't be afraid of calling us that's this gas Holden are highly trained professionals and they're not going to get upset about coming to check because not because it's their job they would much rather come out to your house and reassure you that there's nothing wrong and check it then we call because your home has exploded because you've waited too long and you didn't recognize a problem so on that note I urge you to make sure you know regardless of what energy system you're on know where your energy members meters are at know what normal looks like smells like and sounds like those are all hues so thank you again for your time today and [Applause] [Music]