James A. Klein (Email: jklein@absconsulting.com) joined ABS Consulting in 2013 as a senior process safety consultant conducting risk and safety culture assessments, compliance audits, and other process safety services. Prior to that, he was a senior process safety competency consultant and PSM co-lead for North America Operations at DuPont and had 33 years of experience in process safety, engineering, and research. He has over 50 publications, conference presentations, and university talks and has participated in several CCPS book projects, including as the committee leader for Conduct of Operations and Operational Discipline and as a committee member for Risk Based Process Safety. He has a BS in chemical engineering from MIT, an MS in chemical engineering from Drexel Univ., and an MS in management of technology from the Univ. of Minnesota. He has been a member of AIChE since 1984.