A functional safety assessment (FSA) is a tool used to identify and correct defects before a simple human error allows an incident to propagate in spite of the capital spent on the installed SCAI equipment.
Presented at ISA 2016, MKPOSC International Symposium 2016, Global Congress on Process Safety, 2017. Accepted for publication in Process Safety Progress.

Published in the 2009 Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.

Published in Process Safety Progress, September 2009.

Published in Chemical Engineering Progress – December 2008.

Appeared in Chemical Processing, August 2008; presented at 1st Latin America CCPS Conference, Buenos Aires, May 27-29, 2008; presented at American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Process Plant Safety Symposium, 2008 Spring National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008.

Published in Process Safety Progress, 2008; presented at 1st Latin America CCPS Conference, Buenos Aires, May 27-29, 2008; presented at American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Process Plant Safety Symposium, 2008 Spring National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008.

Published in Chemical Processing – April 2007. Presented as Continuous Improvement in SIS at Texas Chemical Council, 2007 Annual Meeting, Galveston TX, June 2007.

Presented at American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Process Plant Safety Symposium, 2007 Spring National Meeting, Houston, TX, April 23-26, 2007

Presented at American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Process Plant Safety Symposium, Spring National Meeting, April 2007.

Presented at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Symposium, October 2006.