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Bill Hoyle

Former Subject Matter Expert and Safety Consultant, ORCHSE, an NSC Workplace Safety Group
Bill Hoyle
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Bill Hoyle

Former Subject Matter Expert and Safety Consultant, ORCHSE, an NSC Workplace Safety Group

Bill Hoyle has more than 30 years of experience in process safety and the investigation of major incidents. Bill led the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) investigation of the 2005 fire and explosions at BP Texas City refinery that killed 15 and injured 180. He was senior investigator for the CSB’s investigation of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, as well as the West, Texas, fertilizer explosion that killed 15 responders. In the 1990s, he was on the Wharton School of Business roundtable on major accident prevention, as well as the EPA Experts’ Delegation that studied European safety practices while touring Germany. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences panel that studied safety culture in the offshore energy industry, and a co-founder of U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) operations in 1998.

Bill was an expert adviser to CalOSHA and CalEPA on revisions to their regulations for oil refineries. He provided extensive training for California state and local government refinery safety inspectors. He is a peer reviewer of the California Council on Science and Technology report on the safety of underground natural gas storage facilities, and serves as an alternate member of the ANSI Z-10 Committee on Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems.

Bill studied Investigative Journalism at Bowling Green State University in Ohio where he received the Scripps Howard Foundation Merit Scholarship Award.

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