March 11, 2026 4:00 pm Eastern Time- Preventing High-Consequence Events in Semiconductor Operations: What Traditional Safety Metrics Miss — and How Emerging AI Tools Can Help

Semiconductor organizations operate highly mature safety programs while managing complex, high-consequence hazards embedded in routine and non-routine operations. Despite strong performance against traditional metrics, serious exposure can persist within maintenance activities, tool installations, chemical and gas management, and contractor interfaces—often without injury or immediate consequence.

This peer-to-peer session focuses on where high-consequence operational risk continues to surface in fabs and why abnormal events and near misses frequently represent underused learning signals. Through concise fab-relevant scenarios, the discussion will examine how operational drift, assumptions about controls, and transitional work states can erode risk visibility over time.

The session will also include a brief overview of how emerging AI-enabled approaches can support existing risk management practices. AI-assisted PHA bowtie assessments and AI-driven risk advisory tools will be discussed as decision-support capabilities that help structure hazard identification, improve consistency, and surface potential control gaps earlier—without replacing engineering judgment or established safety processes.

Designed as a collaborative learning conversation, this session invites SESHA members to reflect on practical ways to strengthen operational safety and reduce exposure to high-consequence events in advanced manufacturing environments.

SPEAKER
Aron Yellott
Benchmark Gensuite
Associate Director of Strategic Solutions and Growth- Operational Safety

Aron Yellott brings deep operational and process safety expertise to high-hazard industrial environments, grounded in both personal experience and professional practice. Following the loss of her husband in a workplace incident more than two decades ago, Aron has dedicated her career to preventing serious injuries, fatalities, and high-consequence events through stronger operational discipline and risk management.

As Associate Director of Strategic Solutions and Growth at Benchmark Gensuite, Aron leads cross-portfolio strategy across Operational Safety, Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Control of Work (CoW), Complete Chemical Management, Industrial Hygiene, Ergonomics, and Risk Management. Her work focuses on strengthening the practical execution of safety-critical processes to improve risk visibility and operational assurance in complex manufacturing environments.

Aron has supported global operations at organizations including L’Oréal USA, Colgate-Palmolive, General Electric, ABB, PCA, Kinder Morgan, and Intercontinental Terminals, partnering closely with operations, engineering, facilities, and EHS teams to manage high-consequence hazards and learn from abnormal events. She holds a Master of Science in Environmental & Chemical Engineering Sciences and maintains both CSP and ASP credentials