What Role Should Safety Have in (Electrical) Design & Daily Operations???
Speaker: Lawrence W. Salberg, Sr
Facilities Systems Safety Engineer
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA
Thursday, 19 April 2007 at 6:30 PM
Location:
Steak and
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2031 Coliseum Drive
Hampton, VA 23666
+1 757.838.7123
Words we hear nearly every week, if not every day:
Design, standards, engineering, construction, operations, safety, failure,
hazards, risk.
Words/Events we (fortunately) don’t hear every week:
Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Columbia, Kansas City Hyatt Regency.
How do “safety”, “engineering”, and “ethics” relate? What should our role as engineers be? Are we designers, implementers, programmers, operators (or Ops. Engineers)? How does “safety” play into all this? Is there an inherent need for safety in our electrical field or are we beyond that now? If there is a need, to what extent and why? Do we see safety as the “Black Hat” that impedes our progress or the “White Knight” that helps us “Bring Good Things to Life”?
Are we success oriented? Prevention oriented? Failure oriented? Or, corrective action oriented? How much safety can we build in and how much do we add on? What’s the cost???
NASA Safety Engineer Larry Salberg will be addressing our Hampton Roads Section with a unique, world-view perspective of who we are as engineers. He will begin by a fun self-assessment exercise to determine where each of us falls on the “safety spectrum”. This will build into where we’ve come and where we’re going. Drawing from his work and life experiences, some from a very culturally diverse part of the world, he will highlight some of the recent trends in safety engineering and how they apply to each of us. He will also summarize some of the high points of his career in electrical power, project management, and safety.
Biographical Sketch
Lawrence W. Salberg, Sr. Lawrence (“Larry”) W. Salberg, Sr. is a Facility Systems Safety Engineer with NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA, recently transferring from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) where he was the Electrical Systems Engineer for KSC’s electrical power system. He holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami and is a licensed professional engineer in Florida. Prior to joining NASA, Larry was a Principal Engineer for Space Gateway Support, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, which provided base operations support services to NASA at KSC and the US Air Force and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and was previously the Electrical Engineering Manager for EG&G Florida at KSC.
Before his work at the Cape Canaveral Spaceport, Larry spent nearly 10 years in Saudi Arabia as a Project Manager/Engineer for the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) designing and managing large petrochemical projects for Saudi’s major refinery/shipping terminal. Larry began his career as a co-op student with Florida Power & Light Company in Miami, spending 13 years in substation and distribution system design & operations.
Larry is a long-standing IEEE member and, for the past 10 years, a member of the IEEE Insulated Conductors Committee. In this role, he has actively worked on three working groups that have written standards for field testing of insulated power cables (IEEE 400.1, 400.2, & 400.3).
Reservations:
Please forward RSVP to Dan Ulinski at or William LaBelle [+1 757 421 8695, +1 757 619 9050].
Directions:
Directions from Norfolk:
- I-64 West toward Hampton
- Merge onto W. Mercury Blvd / US-258 / VA134S via exit 263B on Hampton Blvd. (0.4 miles)
- Turn LEFT onto Coliseum Drive (0.2 miles)
Directions from Williamsburg:
- Take I-64 East toward Newport News / Norfolk.
- Merge onto W. Mercury Blvd / US-258 / VA134S via exit 263 on Hampton Blvd. (0.5 miles)
- Turn LEFT onto Coliseum Drive
Checks
Checks should be made out to IEEE and brought to the meeting.
Agenda
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6:00 PM Executive Committee Meeting
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6:30 PM Social Period
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7:00 PM Dinner
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8:00 PM Presentation
Meal Costs
- Members & Guests: $20.00
- Students$10.00
- There is no charge to attend the presentation.