Lydia Wright
Process Safety COE Leader, CCPSC
- Role
- Sr Process Safety Engineer, Psm Coe Leader at Ashland
- Location
- Salem, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Lydia Wright
Process Safety / Risk engineer with over 23 years in the petroleum and petrochemicalindustries. Proven process safety leader with expertise in developing improvement strategies,global management systems and procedures, and site-level implementation. Experienced inqualitative and quantitative risk analysis for operating assets, capital projects, and new facilities.Key skills include Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Assignment /Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA), Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA)/ Facility Siting,consequence modeling, Management of Change, Incident Investigation, Auditing, andinherently safe design support. In her most recent corporate process safety role, she hasdeveloped global risk management and PHA standards, led LOPA implementation across 50chemical manufacturing sites, and developed competency in 100+ PHA facilitators. She isactively involved in the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Global Congress onProcess Safety as a session and tract chair as well as the Technical Steering Committee.Mrs. Wright has experience developing Operating Procedures and Occupational Safetyexperience, including Energy Isolation, Safe Work Permitting, and PPE.In addition to providing technical expertise, she has also managed and coached process safetyprofessionals (team of 20 consultants), managed budgets and growth targets, helped projectteams meet critical business metrics, and interfaced with other HSE aspects such asMechanical Integrity and Contractor Management.
Experience
Sr Process Safety Engineer, Psm Coe Leader
Oct 2025 — Present · VA, US
Process Safety, Corporate EHS Center of Excellence
Education
Auburn University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering
1997 — 2002
University of Houston
Master of Science (MS), Chemical Engineering
2004 — 2006
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