Philip Myers

Philip M. Myers is President, Principal Engineer, and Founder of Advantage Risk Solutions (2000), a process safety, risk analysis, and risk management consultancy. Mr. Myers is a recognized authority and leader with over 35 years of experience in process safety, quantitative risk analysis, business risk assessment, and risk management. He is an experienced facilitator, training instructor, and mentor. Philip serves the chemical, refining, oil and gas, energy, pharmaceutical, transportation and distribution, and other high hazard and risk industries from the project and plant level to the board room. He also advises industry associations and governments. His consulting work focuses on the identification, evaluation/analysis, control, and management of risks posed by fire, explosion, toxic, reactive, and other hazards. Philip is highly experienced in hazard identification and risk analysis techniques such as: HAZOP, LOPA, Event Tree Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Human Reliability Analysis, BowTie/ Barrier Analysis, Consequence modeling, Facility Siting, Quantitative Risk Analysis, and Business/Financial Risk Assessment. Mr. Myers served as the Process Plant Safety Symposium Chair (2007), Co-Chair (2006), and Session Chair since 2003, and is a long-time technical contributor to the Global Congress on Process Safety and other professional conferences, journals, and publications. He is Secretary-Treasurer for the AIChE Safety and Health Division (focusing on process safety) since 2011, and previously served as Director (2007-09). He is a Life Member of AIChE. Mr. Myers has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University, and a Management Certificate from the Executive Education Program at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University.