On-demand webinar
On-demand webinar
In the process industry, safe design once depended heavily on codes of practice and the hard‑earned experience of operators and specialists. While valuable, these traditional approaches could only address issues that had already happened. Today, technologies evolve faster, plant designs are more unconventional, and teams often have limited operating history to rely on. As a result, organizations now face risks that historical knowledge alone can no longer predict.
In today’s complex operational environment, a strong command of HAZOP methodology is no longer optional; it’s essential.
How HAZOP is executed in practice, beyond the theoretical framework
Where HAZOP methodology commonly breaks down during real studies
How teams can prepare more effectively to achieve higher‑quality, more actionable HAZOP outcomes
Duration: 60 minutes
Whether you’re responsible for process safety, leading HAZOP sessions, or participating in multidisciplinary reviews, you’ll gain practical insights you can apply immediately.
Richard Carter, P. Eng., F.S.P.
Sr. Functional Safety Engineer, Watchmen Industrial Safety Experts
Richard is a Professional Engineer with over 15 years of functional safety experience. He has facilitated over 800 days of Process Hazards Analysis studies, such as HAZOP and LOPA, for a wide variety of process types and clients, including some of the largest operating and engineering companies in North America. He is an engaging and effective training instructor in Process Safety Management and PHA Facilitation.
Richard is passionate about understanding and preventing hazardous incidents to ensure that everyone gets to go home safely to their friends and family. He is enthusiastic about learning from and sharing lessons learned and best practices, and has written papers for and presented at the CCPS Global Congress on Process Safety, and at the IChemE Hazards conference. He is a member of the CSChE Process Safety Management Division and the Energy Safety Canada Community of Practice.
Richard is certified as an exida Functional Safety Practitioner, and holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

Ahmed El Sayed
Functional Safety Expert, Lead Process Safety Technical Authority, TÜV SÜD
TÜV SÜD Functional Safety Expert in accordance with IEC 61508:2010 and IEC 61511:2016, principal Consultant & Trainer MSc holder; Technical Instructor; Engineer with over 17 years all round experience in the oil and gas covering Operation, Maintenance, Functional Safety, Process Safety, control system reliability, HAOZOP, HAZID, SIL, HSE, FMEA, FMECA, FEED, Design Review, FAT, Commissioning, SIL Assessment , SIL validation and verification, Training Planning and Contracts Management,certified as Compex EX inspector and OPITO assessor.
Perfect knowledge of Functional Safety, including the practical implementation of standards such as IEC 61511, ISO 26262 or IEC 61508, as well as practical implementation for carrying out the assessments and consulting tasks provided there have numerous papers published internationally such as Research paper in IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting July 2012 with a title “Integration of DCS and ESD through an OPC application for upstream Oil and Gas”.
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