Presented by:

Gerard “Jerry” F. Scannell
Senior Editor
Workplace HR & Safety (former President of National Safety Council, Assistant Secretary of OSHA, and VP of Worldwide Safety for Johnson & Johnson)

Jerry Scannell is senior editor of Workplace HR & Safety. Scannell was nominated by President George H. Bush in 1989 to serve as Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA. During his leadership of OSHA from 1989 to 1992, Scannell lead the adoption of a new Standard for Process Safety for Highly Hazardous Chemicals and a Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. From 1992 to 1994, he served as VP of Worldwide Safety affairs for Johnson & Johnson, and in 1995, Scannell was named President and CEO of the National Safety Council. He was recently appointed to the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Scannell was inducted into the Safety & Health Hall of Fame International in 1994.

Joseph Dettmann, PhD
Project Director, Towers Perrin-ISR

Joseph Dettmann has been with Towers Perrin-ISR for three years and currently leads the firm’s global safety culture survey practice. Prior to joining Towers Perrin-ISR, Dettman was employed by The Dow Chemical Co. He completed his doctoral work at Central Michigan University in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

Dettmann has led projects for global clients across diverse industries, ranging in size from 100 to 40,000. As part of these engagements, he has used tailored organizational assessments to uncover linkages between safety culture and actual safety performance in efforts to benchmark and build safer working environments for his clients. Dettmann presented findings from Towers Perrin-ISR safety culture work at the 2007 National Safety Council Congress & Expo.

Joseph Howicz, CSP
Occupational Safety and Fire Protection Expert
Accident Prevention Corp.

Joseph Howicz is an occupational safety and fire protection expert for the Accident Prevention Corporation (APC) of Woodstock, Ill. For many years, Howicz worked as a senior compliance officer and investigator for OSHA. For the majority of his career, he served as Senior Instructor and Chairman of Process Safety Management and Hazardous Materials Courses at the OSHA National Training Institute.

For the last two years, Joe has worked on a variety of consulting projects for APC. This included the task of developing the training materials used by OSHA to introduce the new Refinery Inspection National Emphasis Program (NEP) to the OSHA field staff. He also served as chairperson and presenter in the OSHA Course “Advanced Process Safety Management – Petroleum Refinery NEP.”

Howicz is a Certified Safety Professional and Certified Fire Safety Professional. He is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers and the National Fire Protection Association. Howicz graduated from Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree and the University of Illinois with a Master of Public Health degree in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences.

Isadore (Irv) Rosenthal
Senior Fellow, Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center

Rosenthal was employed at Rohm and Haas for 38 years in a variety of chemical research, development, business unit and corporate staff positions. After his retirement from Rohm and Haas in 1990, Dr. Rosenthal joined the Wharton Risk Management and Decisions Processes Center as a Senior Research Fellow. His areas of research are focused on the management of risks associated with low probability-high consequence accidents, process safety management, market-based alternatives to government regulation of industrial risks and the methodology of risk assessment. The Senate confirmed President Clinton’s nomination of Dr. Rosenthal as a member of the United States Chemical Safety and Hazards Investigation Board (CSB) in November 1998 and he joined the agency. After completing his five-year term at the CSB on November 2003, Irv rejoined the Wharton Risk Management and Decisions Processes Center as a Senior Fellow. His current research is focused on descriptive and analytical studies of the data on the low probability –high consequence accidents covered the provisions of the EPA RMP regulation.

In late 1995 a National Investigation Panel was convened at the suggestion of the United States Chemical Safety Board to investigate the March 23, 2005, British Petroleum Texas City refinery accident, which resulted in 15 worker deaths and injured over 170 more. Rosenthal was chosen to be one of the ten members of this panel, chaired by Secretary James J. Baker III

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