Mike Schmidt

Mike and the team he works with at Bluefield Process Safety provide safety lifecycle consulting to the chemical process industries, both by working with industrial clients and by training others to do that work. His expertise includes facilitating HazOps and other forms of PHAs, facilitating DHAs, facilitating LOPA, working with organizations to establish Risk Tolerance Criteria, developing Safety Requirements Specifications for Burner Management Systems and other SISs, performing SIL verification calculations, and assisting with PSM compliance. With a career in the CPI that began in 1977 with Union Carbide, Mike was profoundly impacted by the 1984 tragedy in Bhopal and has been working on process safety ever since. Mike founded Bluefield Process Safety in 2008. Since 2009, he has been on the faculty at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri, where he teaches graduate courses on safety engineering and process risk management, training almost a hundred engineering students every year. Mike blogs and frequently publishes and presents articles and papers on process safety. Recent publications include “Rare but Conceivable: Determining the Likelihood of Meteors and Other Infrequent Events” in Process Safety Progress and “Getting Incident Investigations Right” in Chemical Engineering Progress. Mike received his BS and MS in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his MBA from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.