Distillery Process Safety & Compliance – Why? - Ginposium 2025
Ed Garbett
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Westons / Craft Spirits Consulting
Oliver Kitson
Westons / Craft Spirits Consulting
Distillery Process Safety & Compliance – Why?
In this discussion, Ed will talk about the journey distilleries he has worked at have been on and the key focus areas for a distillery and a production facility to focus on when starting out on its process safety and compliance journey. He will talk about what steps to take to ensure you comply with regulations and legislation, the challenges and the successes of the journey and where they are now.
He will look at where to start your work towards improved compliance and process safety, what tools are available to support and how the industry can do better to inform and ensure that safety is a number one priority for all distillers no matter whether a small family owned start-up or a global brand.
About Ed
Ed has 8 years distillery operations experience, having worked at Chase Distillery since 2017 during its privately owned days, through a period of fantastic growth to its acquisition by Diageo. During a varied career, he has been responsible for many areas across operations and a key focus of his work as distillery manager has been the implementation and continuous improvement of the sites process safety compliance with phased CAPEX (capital expenditure) works.
During this process which took 4 years Ed focused on taking the site from its base level through 3 phases of process safety works, a steep learning curve that will be extremely relevant for many distilleries out there at some point in their journey.
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