Richard Carter, P.E., is a senior functional safety engineer at Watchmen Instrumented Safety Experts in Alberta, Canada. He is a professional engineer with more than 15 years of functional safety experience. He has facilitated over 600 days of process hazard analysis (PHA) studies for a wide variety of process types and clients, including some of the largest operating and engineering companies in North America. Carter is an engaging and effective training instructor in process safety management and PHA facilitation. He has also written papers for and presented at the Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS) and the IChemE Hazards conference. He is a T脺V Rheinland-certified Functional Safety Engineer in Process Hazards and Risk Analysis and has a BS in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Alberta.