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Operations and Safety Solutions (OSS), LLC, is a consultancy that delivers high value answers in the areas of:
- improved utilization and productivity of hard assets,
- world class safety performance and outcomes,
- positive safety culture change, and
- partnerships with subcontractors and others in the supply chain.
Current clients include: NASA, DuPont, mid size oil and gas service firms, a dispute resolution practice, and an oil and gas human talent organization located in India.
Deborah Grubbe is owner and principal of Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC, a consultancy which specializes in safety and operations troubleshooting and support. Deborah is the former Vice President of Group Safety and Industrial Hygiene for BP plc, which had its two safest years ever under her tenure. She was trained in the characteristics of safe operations during her 27 year career at DuPont, where she held corporate director positions in safety, operations and engineering. Deborah is a member of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, and served as a consultant on safety culture to the Columbia Shuttle Accident Investigation Board. Deborah currently serves on the Purdue University College of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council, and is the current Chair of the Institute for Sustainability. She has worked as a member of the oversight committee for the Demilitarization of the US Chemical Weapons Stockpile. Deborah obtained a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with Highest Distinction from Purdue University, and received a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study chemical engineering at Cambridge University in England. A native of Illinois, she received the Purdue Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 2002, and, in that same year, was named “Engineer of the Year” in the State of Delaware.