The drive and passion of Faisal Khan to improve onshore and offshore process industries' safety levels

In 1997, a number of articles were co-authored and published in leading process safety journals (e.g., Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Process Safety Progress, and Process Safety and Environmental Protection) by a young and enthusiastic scientist, Faisal Khan-motivated by a drive to improve the safety practices of the time after the 1984 Bhopal Disaster-and a well-known Professor and Scientist from the Centre for Pollution Control and Environmental Engineering at Pondicherry University, Dr. Shahid Abbas Abbasi. It began a new horizon in the process safety domain, as this young scientist continued to excel in this field and shed light with numerous inventions and by training several hundreds of next-generation safety professionals as a Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of Tasmania, and Texas A&M University. This article is written in honour of Dr. Faisal Khan. Capturing the fullness of Dr. Khan briefly is an arduous task; however, the authors of the current article have attempted to describe his personality, background, and contributions based on their professional interactions with him.