Overview

Climate change continues to increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, which in turn undermine business proffitability and sustainability. It is essential that senior leaders understand their role in identifying and managing climate‑related risks. Clear expectations around leadership capability help organisations grow and strengthen resilience, protect people and the environment, and support safe, reliable operations over the long term.

This webinar introduces a new training standard which defines the skills, knowledge and understanding required for effective climate resilience leadership, providing a benchmark for all those that operate establishments and installations in the process, manufacturing and other high hazard industries. The standard will support top management to address the increasing risks posed by climate change and extreme weather, particularly in high‑hazard and economically critical sectors. It reflects a regulatory and compliance focus on climate resilience at senior leadership and board level.

Joint event

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

This webinar is part of an ongoing series focusing on building climate resilience in partnership with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

Speaker

Dr Mike Nicholas, Senior Advisor, Environment Agency

Mike is a climate change adaptation and process safety expert at the Environment Agency (EA). He supports embedding of adaptation into management systems and the development of expectations and guidance for climate and environmental risk management, targeted at businesses in scope of EA’s regulatory activities.

Richard Roff, Group Process Safety Director, Costain

Richard joined Costain in 2013 having previously worked in the petrochemicals, chemicals and steel industries for ICI, DuPont, Croda and Tata Steel, with roles in asset integrity, maintenance management, projects management, process safety and organisational consultancy. He advises Costain and its clients on the strategic implementation of process safety management. He is also involved in incident investigation, auditing, defining company guidance and education in process safety leadership and management.

Richard is Chair of the UK Process Safety Management Competence Programme Board (PSMCPB). He sits on the technical advisory committee of Hazards Forum where he chairs the interest group on Engineered Systems Hazards.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter's own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Environment and Clean Technology Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time

12:00–13:00 BST.

Software

The presentation will be delivered via Microsoft Teams. We recommend downloading the app from the Microsoft website, rather than using the web portal.