Michael S. Schmidt

Mike Schmidt is Principal of Bluefield Process Safety, providing safety life cycle consulting to the chemical process industries. Formerly an SIS consultant at Emerson, Mike began his career in the CPI in 1977 with Union Carbide. Profoundly impacted by the 1984 tragedy in Bhopal, Mike has been working on process safety ever since. His expertise includes facilitating HazOps and other forms of Process Hazard Analysis, Layer of Protection Analysis, working with organization to establish Risk Tolerance Criteria, development of Safety Requirements Specifications for Burner Management Systems and other Safety Instrumented Systems, SIL calcs, and PSM compliance.