Ashok Garlapati is a Health, Safety & Environment professional certified with CSP, QEP and CFIOSH (Chartered Fellow of IOSH, UK) and Fellow of ASSP. He has 32 years of experience in HSE consultancy and HSE management in the oil and gas industries. He is also the Lead Auditor of the ISO 14001 and ISO45001 standards and approved as an Global OSHA outreach Trainer. He has extensive experience in implementation of HSE management systems for process industries in line with international standards.
Ashok is a professional member of American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), and a past president of ASSP’s Kuwait Chapter. He played an important role in the Kuwait Chapter’s establishment, which is ASSP’s largest international chapter. He served as a member of ASSP’s Global Taskforce and supported in establishment of ASSP Chapters in India, UAE, Nigeria, and Pakistan. He received the Charles V. Culbertson Award in 2007, the Region VI Safety Professional of the Year Award in 2010 and the Edgar Monsanto Queeny Safety Professional of the Year Award in 2011. He served as a founding Vice President of ASSP Region IX (Global), which serves all 10 international chapters located around the World including ASSP Egypt Chapter. Ashok volunteering with BCSP as its Ambassador and as a Board member. He has been conferred with ASSP Fellow Honor in June 2020 for his contributions to HSE profession,
Ashok is a member of the International Association for Drilling Contractors’ HSE Committee, Taskforce member of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers’ Waste Management Committee, member of the International Petroleum Industries Environmental Conservation Association’s (IPIECA) Climate Change Group and International Representative of Offshore Group, IOSH-UK