Steve Maher is currently a Principal Engineer with Risk Management Professionals. For the past 27 years of his career, he has focused on high quality applications of Process Safety, Risk Management, and Loss Prevention technologies such as CalARP, PSM, SEMP/SEMS, and RMP for a broad spectrum of industries. HAZOP Studies and LOPA represent a key specialty. He received his BSME from Duke University and MSME from Carnegie-Mellon University, is a Certified Safety Professional (Systems Safety), and holds Professional Engineering certifications in Mechanical and Chemical Engineering. Mr. Maher has been actively involved in Process Safety since the early 1980’s, serving on the Center for Chemical Process Safety Technical Steering Committee, and was the lead engineer for a landmark 1989 evaluation of Platform Safety Shut-down System reliability using Fault Tree Analysis and Quantitative Risk Assessment.