About SafeGuard PSM
The People Behind
the Work
SafeGuard PSM was founded by process safety professionals who spent decades inside the facilities they now help protect.
Bruce Miller
Principal Consultant — Operations & Plant Management
Bruce is a Plant Manager with 45 years of experience in the petrochemical industry, with Chevron, Petro Star, Sasol, and Hunt Oil in Operations and Plant Management. He has experience with Construction, Commissioning, Startup, Operations, Turnarounds, and Expansion of Crude Units, FCCs, Hydrogen Plants, Crackers, Alkylation Units, LNG Plants, on 12 projects including international assignments in Nigeria, Qatar, Angola, and South Africa. At Sasol North America, Bruce served as PSM Manager, Commissioning Director, and Plant Manager for the Sasol Lake Charles Mega Projects and the Tucson, AZ Plant. He also served as Refinery Manager at Petro Star in Alaska and Hunt Oil in Mississippi. He was Department Chairman for Process Control Engineering at Remington College. He was a Senior Engineer with PAS in Houston, TX. Bruce holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern Mississippi and carries HAZWOPER certification plus an extensive OSHA safety portfolio.
Michael Lambden
Co-Founder & Principal Consultant
Michael brings more than 30 years of hands-on experience in refinery, petrochemical, GTL, and specialty chemical facilities. His career spans operations, process engineering, and process safety — including PSM Coordinator at Petro Star Refineries in Valdez, Alaska; Commissioning Systems Engineer on Sasol's $12 billion Lake Charles GTL mega-project; and Operations/Maintenance Manager and SHES Lead at Sasol North America's Tucson facility. Earlier in his career he worked as Lead DCS Operator, Operations Trainer, and startup advisor at Formosa Plastics and Saudi International Petrochemicals. He has led PHAs, HAZOP reviews, PSSR activities, MOC systems, and incident investigations across multiple sites and operating units. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies (Math & Physics) and an AAS in Laser/Electro-Optics.
Our Mission
Process safety management exists for one reason: to prevent catastrophic incidents that kill workers and destroy communities. At SafeGuard PSM, we don’t treat compliance as a checkbox exercise — we treat it as the foundation of safe operations. Every document we write, every PHA we facilitate, and every PSSR we lead is driven by that principle.