David Moore, PE, CSP
President & CEO

David Moore is a subject matter expert on petroleum and chemical security, process safety management, risk assessment and inherent safety. He is actively involved in leading-edge consulting and training assignments to industrial facilities worldwide. Mr. Moore has taught process safety and security courses for over 20 years to many of the world’s largest corporations. He has been an instructor on process safety and security for such organizations as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), AIChE, API, OSHA, USEPA, ACC, and the NPRA.

He has served in various capacities to advise the DHS on chemical security management and vulnerability assessment, including Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards 6 CFR Part 27. He served as the Sector Coordinator for petroleum, chemical, and LNG for the) initiative to develop a common vulnerability analysis standard ‘Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection (RAMCAP).

Mr. Moore was the lead author of the AIChE CCPS® “Guidelines for Managing and Analyzing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites”, the security guidelines for the American Petroleum Institute (API), and the API/National Petrochemical and Refiners Association Security Vulnerability Assessment Methodology.

Mr. Moore was formerly a Senior Engineer with Mobil Corporation in Princeton, NJ; and a Fire Protection Engineer with the National Fire Protection Association in Boston, MA. Mr. Moore is a Registered Professional Engineer.  He is a board member for the Energy Security Council. He serves on the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety Technical Steering Committee, the CCPS Plant Security Committee, and the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the National Fire Protection Association, and the American Society of Industrial Security. He has an MBA, (NYU-1987), and a B.Sc., Fire Protection Engineering (University of Md.-1979).
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Kathleen Clodfelter
Business Operations Manager

Michael J. Hazzan
Eastern Business Unit Manager

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.

Mr. Hazzan has authored and extensively taught training courses in process safety and risk analysis, as well as security/SVA for the chemical/process and power industries.  He has developed and conducted SVA and Facility Security Officer training to hundreds of chemical and petroleum industry representatives, including the SVA training provided for DHS’s Protective Security Advisors (PSA) and Federal Protective Service, as well as many training courses in various areas of process safety and risk management.  He has published 25 technical papers in the areas of process safety and risk and security, has served as an expert witness on process safety during the permit hearing process for a new chemical recycling facility, and is the co-author of the CCPS book, Guidelines For Analyzing And Managing The Security Vulnerabilities Of Fixed Chemical Sites, the upcoming CCPS book, Inherently Safer Chemical Processes, 2nd, edition, the upcoming CCPS book, Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems, as well as serving as a contributor to the new CCPS book on Mechanical Integrity.

Mr. Hazzan also served over 26 years in the U.S. Navy, including 7 years on active duty in the nuclear submarine force, and retiring as a Naval Reserve Engineering Duty Officer with the rank of Captain.  He holds a Secret clearance.
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Steve Aakhus
Western Business Unit Manager

Steve Aakhus has over twenty seven years experience in the energy and process industries.  He has provided risk consulting services and training to industrial facilities, including oil refineries, chemical plants, pipelines, and manufacturing plants. He has held technical and supervisory positions with engineering, environmental and safety responsibilities in the petroleum and petrochemical industries.  He is an experienced PHA Team Leader, having led studies of various refinery units, chemical processes, and upstream oil & gas facilities.  Additionally, he has completed Chevron’s Riskman2 training qualifying him to conduct specialized studies for Chevron facilities.  He has managed PSM projects for numerous oil and gas industry facilities.  He had led many safety audits for compliance with PSM, RMP, CalARP, and ISO.  Additionally he has provided expertise in the areas of operating procedures, process safety information, incident investigation, engineering, operations management, litigation support and environmental management, and has lived and worked internationally.  He has led or participated in numerous Security Vulnerability Assessments (SVAs) and is CVI trained for CFATS assistance work.  Mr. Aakhus is an experienced trainer and has taught numerous process safety and software courses.

Mr. Aakhus was formerly a Division Engineer with Shell Oil Company; and a PSM Consultant.  He has a BS in Civil Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
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