RESPONSIBILITIES
• Serve as the recognized technical expert for emergency planning, preparedness and response involving hazardous gases, and (ESGs)
• Provide expert guidance on gas behavior, release scenarios, hazard zones, PPE selection, monitoring strategies, isolation techniques, response limitations and disposal techniques.
• Support evaluation of new products, new mixtures, and new supply modes to ensure emergency planning, preparedness, and response implications are understood and addressed prior to startup.
• Act as a technical advisor to EHS, operations, product safety, and emergency response leadership during incident reviews, drills, and post incident learning.
• Design, deploy, maintain, and continuously improve ESG specific emergency response training curricula aligned with real world operating configurations and risk profiles.
• Develop gas and system specific ER training modules, including scenario based learning for cylinders, tube trailers, bulk supply, and Bulk Specialty Gas System (BSGS) interfaces with customer fabs.
• Ensure ER training content reflects response role boundaries, including what actions personnel can and cannot perform based on qualification levels
• Deliver ER training through classroom, virtual, and site based formats, tailored to operators, technicians, response teams, and leadership for on-site and off-site events
• Plan, conduct, and support tabletop exercises, functional drills, and field simulations, including coordination with mutual aid partners and public responders where appropriate.
• Support qualification and refresher training aligned with role levels (Awareness, Operations, Technician, Specialist, Incident Command), as required by regulatory requirements and company procedures.
• Support alignment of ER training with on-site and off-site emergency plans, ER team structures, Incident Command System, and escalation pathways.
• Strategize and collaborate with Global Emergency Response Lead on ER operations
• Maintain working knowledge in all related emergency response laws and regulations for the area.
• Facilitate after-action reviews for identified incidents to gather and track lessons learned.
• Contribute to emergency response standards, guidance documents, and best practices related to ESG operations.
• Monitor industry events, internal incidents, and regulatory or standards changes to proactively update ER training and guidance.
• Engage with commercial team members in an ER advisory capacity to understand new applications of ESGs; work with Engineering, Operations, and Process Safety Teams to assure that Air Products ER practices and training meet customer requirements, regional codes, and standards.