The Maritime Security Council (MSC) was created in 1988 to address the many security concerns of the U.S. and international maritime community. The MSC is a member-driven organization that works closely with United States and other government agencies concerned with commercial vessel security.

Mr. Michael Hazzan, P.E., is Manager of the Eastern Business Unit for AcuTech Consulting Group.  Mr. Hazzan has over thirty-three total years experience in process safety and risk analysis, process security, engineering, and plant operations.  He has served as a Project Manager/Lead Engineer for a number of safety and risk studies, security analyses, and audits.  This work has comprised extensive experience in PSM/RMP auditing (over 100 such audits in the past 12 years), security vulnerability analyses (SVA), process hazard analyses (PHA), release (source term) calculations for severe reactor accidents, facility siting studies, and dispersion/consequence calculations, development of mechanical integrity management systems, and probabilistic risk analyses.  He has also performed approximately 85 SVAs for MTSA-covered and non-MTSA-covered chemical/process sites, and prepared 27 facility security plans for such facilities, and has performed the marine vessel collision frequency analysis for the Independent Risk Analyses for four proposed LNG deep water ports.  He is one of the developers of DHS’s Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection (RAMCAP) sector screening and SVA methodology for the chemical, petroleum, and LNG sectors.  He has also served as a design engineer for nuclear power plant fluid/mechanical systems.