Sketching a robust audit and assurance management system

Aamish J. Khan is an Operational Safety Consultant who has been supporting various renowned companies in the oil and gas, petrochemical and utilities sectors in their safety culture enhancement journeys for two decades. He has a multifaceted exposure to operations leadership, occupational safety, process safety management (PSM), integrity assurance and audit, enabling him to identify, analyze and treat risk effectively throughout an asset’s lifecycle. He is now involved in co-authoring the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Safe Work Practices guidelines, with the objective of enhancing the sharing of lessons learned across the global industry and softening the safety impact on workers’ lives. Khan is a graduate chemical engineer and holds an MS degree in enterprise risk management from Boston University in the U.S.

Peter Verhulst worked for 42 yr for Royal Dutch Shell Companies and has extensive refinery and gas plant experience from both operational and technological standpoints. His expertise ranges from customer relations and service management to governance of JV interests, business performance improvement through the application of balanced score cards, and the implementation of ERM from scratch. In his last assignment, he led the implementation of an ERM system coupled to an internal audit management system and action tracking system, a first in the oil and gas industry in the Middle East. Verhulst is a graduate of Delft Technical University, the Netherlands, and earned an MS degree in chemical engineering.