About: Clyde Young

Mr. Clyde Young is a training consultant with John M Campbell and Company. Mr. Young has over twenty-five years of diverse experience in operations and maintenance of production and processing facilities. This includes significant experience in operations and development of management systems for gas processing and water/wastewater treatment facilities, which includes operating procedure development, training program development, compliance auditing, vulnerability assessment, emergency planning and mechanical integrity program development. Mr. Young holds a B.S in Social Sciences from the University of Wyoming- Laramie Wyoming.

Recent Posts by Clyde Young

Process Safety and Low Oil Prices

In this Tip of the Month, we reflect back to December 2008, and get a reminder from the United States Chemical Safety Board (CSB) to remain focused on process safety and accident prevention during this time of lower oil prices. During the economic downturn of 2008, oil prices dropped significantly. The latest drop in crudeContinue Reading

Written on March 1, 2015 at 12:00 am
Categories: Gas Processing, Mechanical, Pipeline, Process Facilities, Process Safety, Refining, Reliability Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Water and Corrosion

The Importance of Leadership in Process Safety Management

The first pillar of Risk Based Process Safety Management is “Commitment to Process Safety.” A formalized mentoring system can ensure workforce involvement, compliance with company and regulatory requirements, increase the competency of personnel and enhance the process safety culture of the entire organization. Within this element there are several essential features that lead to aContinue Reading

Written on August 1, 2014 at 12:00 am
Categories: Gas Processing, Mechanical, Pipeline, Process Facilities, Process Safety, Refining, Reliability Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Water and Corrosion

Debriefing Jobs Provides Several Benefits Associated With Process Safety

A pillar of Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) is Learn from Experience. The work we do and the processes we use to analyze our work provide significant learning opportunities to enhance process safety competency. This is a derivative of Kolb’s experiential learning cycle [1], but many times we fail to take advantage of the learningContinue Reading

Written on January 1, 2014 at 8:00 am
Categories: Gas Processing, Mechanical, Pipeline, Process Facilities, Process Safety, Refining, Reliability Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Uncategorized, Water and Corrosion

What is Mentoring?

What is Mentoring? In this Tip of the Month, we explore how process safety competency can be enhanced through mentoring programs. This TOTM is the paper that was developed by JMC Instructor/Consultants Clyde Young and Keith Hodges presentation at the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) 8th Global Conference on Process Safety in April, 2012. Continue Reading

Written on February 1, 2013 at 6:30 am
Categories: Gas Processing, Mechanical, Pipeline, Process Facilities, Process Safety, Refining, Reliability Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Water and Corrosion

Analyzing Engineering Tasks to Minimize or Eliminate Mistakes

In the April, 2011, Tip of the Month (TOTM), we looked at a simple, graphical representation of process safety competency. This TOTM will follow up on that by asking a simple question: “When examining catastrophic incidents, what are the typical mistakes that engineers make?” This question was asked of me at a lunch and learnContinue Reading

Written on September 1, 2011 at 6:00 am
Categories: Process Safety