We at Unwin Company are a group of individuals who have dedicated all our professional careers to building expertise in process safety and risk management, quantitative risk assessment, and systems reliability management. Our company principals (see brief bios below) work with strategic partners and support staff as needed to form strong project teams.

Robert W. Johnson

Mr. Johnson is President of Unwin Company. He is an industry leader in the development and dissemination of risk analysis methods and risk management strategies. For the past 28 years, Mr. Johnson has helped clients prioritize risk reduction options, develop corporate and plant technical safety programs, identify inherently safer processes, train PHA team leaders, and analyze fire, explosion, and toxic release hazards.

Mr. Johnson currently serves as a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Area 11a Committee, which sponsors the annual AIChE Loss Prevention Symposium, and the AIChE Safety and Chemical Engineering Education (SACHE) Committee, which promotes process safety in undergraduate chemical engineering programs. Mr. Johnson has served on the Risk Assessment subcommittee of the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety and has chaired the CCPS Long Range Planning Committee.

Among his many contributions to the loss prevention literature, Mr. Johnson was primary author of Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards and Guidelines for Safe Storage and Handling of Reactive Materials and co-author of Guidelines for Vapor Release Mitigation, all published by the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety.

Mr. Johnson has held Senior Engineer positions with Du Pont and with Hercules Incorporated. He holds BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University.

Steven W. Rudy

Mr. Rudy has been a risk management consultant to the chemical process industries since 1987. He has also consulted in the aerospace and nuclear power industries. He has accumulated expertise in a number of areas, including the development of risk-focused mechanical integrity programs, the facilitation of process hazard analyses, the preparation of operating, safe work practice and emergency response procedures, the development of administrative systems for process safety management, and quantitative risk assessment.

Mr. Rudy also specializes in the development of software to support risk management, risk analysis, and safety/production administration, having developed applications for numerous clients.

Mr. Rudy was co-author of Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards and Guidelines for Safe Storage and Handling of Reactive Materials.

Other Associates

Bryan T. Haywood

Bryan Haywood is an experienced and educated safety professional, with over 15 years of experience specializing in risk reduction and OSHA compliance. He began his career in the safety field as a fire fighter/EMT in Western Kentucky while attending Murray State University, obtaining his BS in Occupational Safety and Health. He entered the Chemical Process Industry as a safety engineer. Mr. Haywood continued his safety education, obtaining his MS in Safety Engineering in 1996. During his career, Mr. Haywood has developed, implemented, and managed chemical process safety management systems for five Fortune 500 companies, achieving OSHA VPP STAR status four times. As a safety professional in industry, Mr. Haywood held roles from Senior Safety Engineer to Corporate Safety and Health Manager. In these roles, Mr. Haywood was responsible for the development, implementation, and management of five different PSM/RMP management systems for both batch and continuous operation processes.

Mr. Haywood now runs a safety website and consulting business (SAFTENG.net LLC), providing PSM/RMP services around the world. Mr. Haywood's experience includes developing, implementing six sigma safety processes, behavior-based safety observation processes, safety and health training and compliance auditing. As a consultant, Mr. Haywood completes, on average, more than 75 OSHA compliance audits each year for more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies and trains over 300 workers in safety and health. Mr. Haywood maintains all his current emergency response certifications in law enforcement, fire service, and hazardous materials response and has obtained over 5,800 hours of training in firefighting, HAZMAT, technical rescue, and security from recognized training organizations such as Texas A&M, LSU, Murray State University - NIOSH Training Institute, and National Fire Academy.

John F. Murphy, PE

Mr. Murphy has 38 years of experience in chemical manufacturing and process safety with jobs in the chemical industry, consulting and government. He has recently retired as an investigator with the U. S. Chemical Safety Board where he served as lead investigator on the Reactive Hazard Investigation and other chemical processing incidents. He also retired from the Dow Chemical Company where he was a leader in process safety. While in consulting, he performed process hazard analysis. process safety auditing, process safety management system development, reactive chemical program development, training on incident investigation and process safety management, and other process safety projects. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers where he is a leader in the Safety and Health Division and the Center for Chemical Process Safety. Mr. Murphy is a professional engineer in the state of Texas. He has a B. S. in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University and an M. B. A. from Central Michigan University.

Robert W. Tayloe

Rob Tayloe has more than 25 years of experience in engineering. He has participated in projects at various infrastructure, industrial, and nuclear facilities. Activities range from design of facilities to performing inspections and assessments for safety and security. He has participated in a variety of projects for numerous U.S. govermental agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of Interior, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Department of Energy. Mr. Tayloe is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio.