Publications

Selected Publications

• RMP: Public Meetings, Orange County Community Awareness & Emergency Response (OC CAER), January 12, 2000.
• "Practical Guide to Risk Management Communication," First Edition, January 2000 (140 pages).
• "Risk Communication Guide for State & Local Agencies," Sponsored by California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Rev. 0, December 1999 (approximately 90 pages).
• "CA OES Y2K Initiatives & CalARP," SCSRA Twelfth Annual Workshop, Risk Assessment and Management in the New Millennium, May 27, 1999.
• "Effective PHA Revalidation Techniques to Address CalARP/RMP Requirements," Southern California Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, April 27, 1999.
• Process Hazard Analysis Workshop, Orange County Community Awareness & Emergency Response (OC CAER), Orange County Certified Unified Program Agency (OC CUPA), March 3, 1999.
• "Effective Approaches to PHA Revalidation," SCSRA CalARP/RMP Specialty Workshop, Practical Approach to CalARP/RMP Implementation in Southern California, February 24, 1999.
• "Alkylation Unit Accidental Release Dispersion Modeling & Risk Characterization," November 16, 1998.
• "Effective Approaches to PHA Revalidation," Southern California Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, October 28, 1997.
• Southern California Society for Risk Analysis - Specialty Workshop on US EPA's Risk Management Program, "Prevention Program," December 14, 1996.
• California Risk Management Planning 1996 Workshops, Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Studies, October 16, 1996.
• "SB 1889 - Updating the California RMPP," SCSRA Risk Resources, August 1996.
• Alternative Alkylation Technologies in a Refinery - A Case Study in Risk-Based Decision Making," Third International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM III), Crete, June 1996
• "Alternative Alkylation Technologies in a Refinery - A Case Study in Risk-Based Decision Making," 1996 Process Plant Safety Symposium, Houston, April 1996.
• "Challenges in Risk and Safety Communication with the Public," 1996 Process Plant Safety Symposium, Houston, April 1996.
• "Regulatory Updates - US EPA - Risk Management Programs," SCSRA Risk Resources, December 1995.
• "API/CMA Recommended Practice 752 - Management of Hazards Associated with Location of Process Plant Buildings," SCSRA Risk Resources, April 1995.
• "Joint Industry Project on Human Factors in Offshore Operations," SCSRA Risk Resources, April 1995.
• "LA Basin Geotechnical Update," SCSRA Risk Resources, February 1995.
• "Quantitative Risk Assessment of Refinery Alkylation Processes," SCSRA Risk Resources, February 1995.
• "Using Fault Tree Analysis to Identify Cost-Effective Design Improvements in Offshore Platform Safety Shutdown Systems," Safety and Reliability Society Symposium 1991, London, England, September 1991.
• "The Integration of Quantitative Risk Assessment and Reliability Centered Maintenance to Optimize Platform Design and Operations", Safety and Reliability Society Symposium 1991, London, England, September 1991.
• "Systematic Probabilistic Safety Assessment Overview, Ongoing Activities and Lessons Learned," Jahrestagung Kerntechnik '91, Bonn, May 1991.
• "Offshore Platform Safety Shutdown System Effectiveness," Safety Developments in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Glasgow, Scotland, April 1991.
• "Tools to Enhance the Flexibility of Risk Assessment and Hazards Identification," AIChE 1990 Summer National Meeting, San Diego, August 1990.
• "Decision Analysis Using Risk Management Techniques," Twenty-First Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1990.
• "On the Use of Training Simulators for Accident Analysis and Training", February 1990.
• "Relief Valve Testing Interval Optimization Program for the Cost-Effective Control of Major Hazards," Second Symposium on Preventing Major Chemical Accidents, Oslo, May 1988.
• "The Application of Risk Assessment to a Hoist Handling Radioactive Waste at a National Repository," ANS/ASME Nuclear Power Symposium, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, April 1988.
• "Risk Management of a Petroleum Refining Facility Using Fault Tree Analysis," presented at the 6th International Symposium on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), Houston, Texas, March 1987.
• "Reliability and Hazards Assessment of a Central Cooling Water Supply System," presented at the CSChE 36th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Sarnia, Ontario, October 1986.
• "Risk Management of a Fuel Gas Conditioning Facility Using Fault Tree Analysis," presented at the CSChE 35th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Calgary, Alberta, October 1985 also published in the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, volume 64, pgs 848_853, October 1986.