Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

5th Edition - October 1, 2026
Author: Frank Lees
Editors: Faisal Khan, Stewart Behie
Language: English
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Faisal Khan

Faisal Khan is a Chemical Engineering Professor and Director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center and the Ocean Energy Safety Institute, Texas A &M University. He is the founder of the Centre for Risk Integrity and Safety Engineering (C-RISE), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering. His areas of research interest include offshore safety and risk engineering, inherent safety, risk management, and risk-based integrity assessment and management. Dr. Khan is actively involved with multinational oil and gas industries on the issue of safety and asset integrity. He also served as the Safety and Risk Advisor to the Government of Newfoundland, Canada. He continues to serve as a subject matter expert to many organizations including Lloyd’s Register EMEA, SBM Modco, Intecsea, Technip, and Qatar-gas. He served as a Visiting Professor of Offshore and Marine Engineering at Australian Maritime College (AMC), University of Tasmania, Australia where he led the development of offshore safety and risk engineering group and the initiative of global engagements with many international institutions. He is the recipient of President Outstanding Research Award of 2012-13 at Memorial University, President Outstanding Research Supervision Award of 2013-14 at Memorial University, CSChE National Award on Process Safety Management of 2014, P, and Society of Petroleum Engineer award for his contribution to Health, Safety and Risk Engineering. He has authored over 500 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences on safety, risk, and reliability engineering. He has authored five books on the subject area. He is the Editor of the Journal of Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Safety in Extreme Environment, and ASME Part A (Risk and Uncertainty Analysis). He regularly offers training program/workshop on safety and risk engineering in different places including St John’s, Chennai, Dubai, Beijing, Aberdeen, Cape Town, Doha and Kuala Lumpur.

Affiliations and expertise

Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety CenterArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Stewart Behie

Dr Stewart W Behie is currently Interim Director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center. He is Manager, Safety and Process Risk in the corporate HES Risk Management group in Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation’s (Oxy) Houston office. Prior to this role, Stewart, was the Oxy’s Manager AI/HES Training and Development in which capacity he set up and managed a training program for new engineering and technical graduates to prepare them for roles in a BU. Prior to joining Oxy in 2012, Stewart worked in the Middle East for 10 years. 6+ years with Dolphin Energy Limited in Qatar as Field HES Manager for Onshore and Offshore operations and 3 years with Zakum Development Company a major offshore oil production company as Technical Team Lead in Abu Dhabi. Prior to moving to the Middle East in 2003, Stewart was the Senior Risk Management Specialist / Senior Safety Engineer for Petro-Canada’s East Coast Operations in St. John’s, working on the first FPSO project of the NE coast off Newfoundland. Stewart holds Bachelor, Masters and doctoral degrees in Chemical Engineering.

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Interim Director Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Houston, TX USA

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