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About Us · The Team

Deep Expertise.
No Junior Bait-and-Switch.

Bruce and Michael bring 75+ combined years inside the facilities they now advise. The senior you meet is the consultant on your project — every time.

75+
Combined Years
$30B
Projects Directed
24
Process Unit Types
4
Continents

The Experience Behind Every Engagement

Two practitioners. Every phase of the project and compliance lifecycle.

Bruce Miller — Co-founder & Technical Director, SafeGuard Projects
Bruce M. Miller
Co-founder  ·  Projects Director  ·  Senior Consultant
45 Years HAZOP Facilitator PSM Manager Commissioning Director Plant Manager
Chevron: Operations Trainee → Plant Manager; 24 plant types; Operations Director, Turnaround Manager, PSM Manager, Alarm Management Specialist. Angola LNG FEED Phase and Nigerian GTL FEED Phase — Plant Manager
Sasol GTL: Refinery Manager, $18B Fuels/Derivatives project — alignment with South Africa, Nigeria, Qatar, and Rome
Sasol Mega Projects: PSM Manager — owned all PHAs, P&ID reviews, $12B PSM budget, 10 direct reports
Sasol: Commissioning Director — HAZOP reviews, model reviews, full commissioning team leadership
Petro Star Alaska: Refinery Manager, Valdez AK
Plant Automation Services: Senior Project Manager — Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, Sasol, Oryx GTL
Technip Energies: OMC Director, Karbala Refinery Project, Iraq
26 completed OSHA coursework modules
HAZWOPER certified  ·  Train-the-Trainer certified
132-hour Safety and Health Professional Certificate
DCS Systems: Honeywell, Delta V, Foxboro, Yokogawa
B.S. Business Administration — University of Southern Mississippi (Highest Honors)
Michael Lambden — Projects & PSM Coordinator, SafeGuard Projects
Michael Lambden
Projects & PSM Coordinator
30+ Years PSM Coordinator Commissioning HAZOP / P&ID DCS / HMI
Formosa Plastics: Construction through Lead DCS Supervisor; Olefins 1 & 2, BTX; HAZOP/LOPA/JSA participation; PSM documentation, PSSR, and MOC oversight
Saudi International Petrochemicals: Operations Trainer, Methanol Synthesis — Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia
Bruker Optics: Field Service Engineer — near-IR and Raman spectrometry deployment across refineries and petrochemical facilities
Plant Automation Services: Project Engineer — high-performance HMI, alarm management (ANSI 18.2); $500K contract secured through DCS graphics design
Petro Star Alaska: PSM Coordinator — training program development, MOC, PHAs, JSAs, incident investigations; Valdez, AK
Sasol: Commissioning Systems Engineer, LCCP (Ziegler Alcohols / Ethylene Cracker Unit); Operations Engineer / SHES Specialist, Tucson aluminas facility
Hunt Southland Refinery: Product Quality Manager — QA/QC, AASHTO R18 laboratory accreditation, regulatory audit interface
B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies (Math & Physics) — Ellis University, 3.54 GPA
A.A.S. Laser-Electro Optics — Texas State Technical College  ·  Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
DCS/SCADA systems: process graphics design, alarm rationalization, ANSI 18.2 compliance
Near-IR & Raman spectrometry integration in refinery process environments
MOC, HAZOP, LOPA, JSA, PSSR — hands-on facilitator and participant across multiple facility types

They've Sat on Every Side of the PSM Table

As unit operators. As a PSM manager. As a plant manager. As a commissioning director. As consultants. They know what it’s like to live by a PSM program — on a night shift, during a turnaround, when an inspector shows up unannounced. That is not a consulting credential. That is the credential.

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Operated the Units

They’ve worked the startup checklists, not just written them. Every procedure they build, they’ve executed at some point across decades of plant operations and commissioning.

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Managed the PSM Programs

They’ve owned the PSM budget, the PHAs, the P&ID reviews, and the audit responses — for billion-dollar capital programs. That perspective is baked into every recommendation they make.

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Ran the Plants

Plant management means living with the consequences of safety decisions — good and bad. They don’t give recommendations they wouldn’t stake a plant on.

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