Freeport, TX (March 11, 2025) – To err is human. Finding ways to improve future performance is
smart. That was the message at the Brazoria County Petrochemical Council’s (BCPC)
Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) committee’s recent Sustaining Safety Excellence
through Human Performance symposium. The event was held Feb. 13, 2025 at the Brazosport
Safety Council in Freeport.
Presenters included BCPC member companies LyondellBasell and Chevron Phillips Chemical
talking about why and how they are focused on improving human and organizational
performance. The keynote speaker was Bob Catinazzo, Executive Vice President of Operations
for PPI Global, a leading provider of safety and culture transformation solutions.
Symposium Highlights
- People can’t continue to do the same thing and expect different results
- Historically human errors have been addressed at an individual level, but most errors
are caused by systemic drivers influencing a person’s behavior - Systems, processes and procedures need to be made more error resilient
- Leaders need to understand where they can implement safeguards to make it easier to
succeed and harder to fail - Building a proactively accountable culture is a path to reducing human error and risk
The highly-attended symposium ended with company representatives and work teams talking
with the presenters about how they were going to look for areas that could be improved on.
About the Brazoria County Petrochemical Council
The BCPC consists of more than 25 member companies producing thousands of raw materials and
intermediate products used in everyday life, resulting clean water and energy, safe food packaging,
effective hygiene products, lifesaving medicine and medical equipment, advanced electronics,
sustainable construction materials, affordable clothing and safe and fuel-efficient automotives.
The annual economic output for the companies associated with the BCPC is $12+ billion. The total
economic impact of the industry supported $24 billion in total spending. Through its member
companies, BCPC employs 12,259 full-time direct employees, 75% of them living in Brazoria County. For
every job created directly by the industry, another 2.85 jobs are created, resulting in 39,995 indirect and
induced jobs. Our employees contribute over 35,000 hours of volunteer service the community each
year.