FAULT MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS

Presented at Loss Prevention Symposium, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, April 2001. Published in Process Safety Progress, November 2001.

PARTIAL STROKE TESTING OF VALVES

Published in Control Engineering, November 2000. Presented at ISA EXPO, September 2001.

ISA 84 – THE STANDARD FOR SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS

Presented as Regulations, Standards, and Safety Instrumented Systems, at European Triconex Users Group, Venice, Italy, May 1998 and at ISA EXPO, October 1998. Presented as Safety Instrumented Systems Under the New Standards, ICEX 99 Workshop, Institute of Instrumentation and Control, Melbourne, Australia, May 1999. Presented as Regulations, Standards, and Safety Instrumented Systems at Mary Kay O’Conner Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University, October 1999. Published as Path to 84 Compliance, Factory Mutual Newsletter, July 2000. Published as Setting the Standard for Safety Instrumented Systems, Chemical Engineering, December 2000.

HIGH INTEGRITY PRESSURE PROTECTION SYSTEMS (HIPPS)

Published in Chemical Engineering Progress, November 2000. Recipient of Bill Doyle Award for Best Paper at Loss Prevention Symposium 2000. Expanded and published in Instrument Engineers Handbook Volume 3 Chapter 2.6.

SAFETY INTEGRITY LEVELS; DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE ODDS?

Published as Understanding Safety Integrity Levels, Control Engineering, February 2000.

ESTIMATION AND EVALUATION OF COMMON CAUSE FAILURES IN SIS

Presented at Loss Prevention Symposium, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Spring Meeting, March 1999. Published as Safeguard Safety Instrumented Systems – Chemical Engineering Progress, November 1999.

AVOID BAD ENGINEERING PRACTICES IN SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEM DESIGN

Published as Safety Can Go Wrong Fast in InTech, November 1999.

IMPROVE FACILITY SIS PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY

Published in Hydrocarbon Processing, October 2002. Presented as Solenoid Configurations: Selecting the Best Architecture for Your Application, ISA Tech99, October 1999. Presented as Selecting the Best Solenoid Architecture for Your Application at Process Plant Reliability Symposium, October 1999.

COMMON CAUSE AND COMMON SENSE – DESIGNING FAILURE OUT OF YOUR SIS

Presented at ISA EXPO, October 1998. Published in ISA Transactions, 1999.

VIEWPOINT ON ISA TR84.0.02 – SIMPLIFIED METHODS AND FAULT TREE ANALYSIS

Presented as Simplified Methods and Fault Tree Analysis of Safety Instrumented Systems at Interkama, Dusseldorf, Germany, October 1999. Published as Viewpoints on ISA TR84.0.02-Simplified Methods and Fault Tree Analysis in ISA Transactions, 2000. Presented as Introduction to the Quantitative Techniques Proposed by ISA TR84.0.02 for Verification of the Target SIL, Center for Chemical Process Safety, September 1998.