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Lee N. Vanden Heuvel
ABS Consulting
1-865-671-5848
LNV@absconsulting.com
Mr. Lee N. Vanden Heuvel is the Manager of Incident Investigation/Root Cause Analysis Services and a Senior Risk/Reliability Engineer for ABS Consulting. He has more than 23 years of experience in plant operations and analysis.
Mr. Vanden Heuvel has assisted organizations in many different industries with the development and implementation of incident investigation and root cause analysis (RCA) programs. He has also led and participated in investigations in many types of industries, including chemical, refining, healthcare, manufacturing, drilling, machining, pharmaceuticals, waste disposal, nuclear power, and food processing. He is a co-author of Guidelines for the Investigation of Chemical Process Incidents, Second Edition and Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety (both published by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Center for Chemical Process Safety), and the Root Cause Analysis Handbook, Third Edition and Reliability Management (both published by Rothstein Associates Inc.).
Mr. Vanden Heuvel was previously the project manager and lead analyst for a large quantitative risk assessment program at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He also worked for eight years at a nuclear power plant in operations, engineering support, and training. His current responsibilities are in the areas of RCAs, incident investigations, human factors, procedures, safety analyses, and economic/decision analyses. He is the prime developer of ABS Consulting's Root Cause Analysis and Incident Investigation course and has taught RCA techniques to thousands of students.
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