The drive and passion of Faisal Khan to improve onshore and offshore process industries' safety levels

Abstract

In 1997, a number of articles were co‐authored and published in leading process safety journals (e.g., Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Process Safety Progress, and Process Safety and Environmental Protection) by a young and enthusiastic scientist, Faisal Khan—motivated by a drive to improve the safety practices of the time after the 1984 Bhopal Disaster—and a well‐known Professor and Scientist from the Centre for Pollution Control and Environmental Engineering at Pondicherry University, Dr. Shahid Abbas Abbasi. It began a new horizon in the process safety domain, as this young scientist continued to excel in this field and shed light with numerous inventions and by training several hundreds of next‐generation safety professionals as a Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of Tasmania, and Texas A&M University. This article is written in honour of Dr. Faisal Khan. Capturing the fullness of Dr. Khan briefly is an arduous task; however, the authors of the current article have attempted to describe his personality, background, and contributions based on their professional interactions with him.