Safety:Keep 20/20 Focus in 2020 Pay attention to personnel changes in key process safety groups

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THIS YEAR promises to be important in terms of process safety leadership.The U.S.Senate is expected to confirm the nomination of Katherine A.Lemos as chair of the U.S.Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board(CSB).Meanwhile,the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center(MKOPSC)at Texas A&M University,College Station,Texas,has appointed Stewart Behie as interim director to help fill the significant void created by the death of the center's long-time director,Sam Mannan.The MKOPSC expects to name a permanent director shortly.Lemos enjoyed bipartisan support at the hearing on her nomination held in September by the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee,which unanimously forwarded her nomination to the full Senate.Easy confirmation is expected there.However,given the Senate's preoccupation elsewhere,when the vote might take place remains uncertain.So,too,obviously does the timing of her actually becoming chair of the CSB.Most recently at Northrup Grumman,Lemos previously had served at the