
Adrian is a senior director with Jensen Hughes. He brings almost three decades of experience in process safety management (PSM) in its many aspects with a focus on explosion modeling. Adrian has worked as a consultant most of his career, working on 5 continents in various roles such as incident investigation, PSM consulting, methodology development, stakeholder and regulatory support, and training. He has also spent 5 years as a government researcher and short stint with utility power generation, working with thermal and nuclear power plants. Adrian has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, and journal articles, and was one of the lead authors for the Center for 91³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓÆµ process Safety (CCPS) handbook on explosion modelling, the ASM Handbook, and has contributed to several others.
As an incident investigator, Adrian has led major industrial incidents investigations globally for a variety of clients: owners, operators, third parties, insurers, underwriters, and government. In this role, he has worked on some of the most high-profile industrial incidents in recent decades, including landmark incidents such as Sunrise Propane and Lac Megantic in Canada; Sonatrach LNG in Skikda, Algeria; and BP Texas City and Deepwater Horizon in the US.
Adrian continues to support standards development in PSM issues with CSA, UL, and IEC/ISO, teaches courses in PSM and quantitative risk assessment at the graduate level and has been a champion of PSM in all his work.