An ignition control nightmare—Protecting assets from a lightning strike

Aamish J. Khan is an Operational Safety Consultant who has been supporting various renowned companies in the oil and gas, petrochemical and utilities sectors in their safety culture enhancement journeys for two decades. He has a multifaceted exposure to operations leadership, occupational safety, process safety management (PSM), integrity assurance and audit, enabling him to identify, analyze and treat risk effectively throughout an asset’s lifecycle. He is now involved in co-authoring the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Safe Work Practices guidelines, with the objective of enhancing the sharing of lessons learned across the global industry and softening the safety impact on workers’ lives. Khan is a graduate chemical engineer and holds an MS degree in enterprise risk management from Boston University in the U.S.