Lex Seto, BE (chemical) and MBA (Technology Management), has over 25 years’ experience in operations management and project management in the fertiliser, explosives, and chemical industries. Lex has had a further 15 years assisting these and others including upstream and downstream oil and gas industries and the mining industry.
Lex’s major support emphases for both large and small organisations are in process safety in both design and operations, and in project risk.
Garry has over 20 years of experience in plant operations, project design, process safety, functional safety, major hazard safety assessment, onshore and offshore safety cases, risk assessment and loss prevention engineering. This includes working as a process and safety engineer for several international O&G operators at oil refineries, gas plants and offshore platforms and as Principal Engineer for design projects in Australia, UK, India, Africa, PNG, S.E Asia and Russia.
His current focus is on Technical Safety Engineering and Formal Safety Assessments involving a range of studies from Design Concept to commissioning and operations, for example, HAZID and HAZOP, Safety Integrity Level (SIL) assessments including Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA), ALARP Demonstration, Management Of Change (MOC), Bowtie/Performance Standards, Fire Protection Systems and Process Safety Performance Metrics.
He is a strong advocate for inherently safer designs through early hazard identification, risk assessment, “optioneering” and ALARP justification.