Mr. Simon J Gakhar

Simon Gakhar is Technical Manager and Process Safety Consultant at, DEKRA Insight, a position he has held since 2010.

In addition to delivering process safety solutions, Simon has responsibility for developing and maintaining technical capability within the consulting team.

He has over 25 years process industry experience, 15 years of which have been in process safety. Since joining DEKRA Insight, Simon has worked on wide range of process safety projects for a variety of clients in different countries.

Areas of expertise;
• Explosion Hazard and Risk Assessment (gas/vapour and dust)
• Hazardous Area Classification (gas/vapour and dust)
• ATEX / DSEAR
• Non-Electrical Equipment Ignition Risk Assessment
• Chemical reaction hazards and Self-heating of powders
• Occupied Building Risk Assessments (including toxic hazard assessments)
• Electrostatic Hazard Assessments
• Accident and Incident Investigations
• Process Safety Management
• Process Safety Training and Explosion / Electrostatic Demonstrations

Mr Gakhar has specific project experience including;
ATEX/DSEAR assessments and hazardous area classification for a range of clients.
Electrostatic hazard assessments and incident investigations.
Dust explosion hazard and powder self-heating assessments.
Incident investigations - runaway chemical reaction, electrostatic shocks and ignitions, powder self-heating.
Chemical reaction hazard assessments.
Occupied Building Risk Assessment for a variety of bulk chemical manufacturers.
Development and Provision of a wide range of process safety training courses.
Led a global Process Safety Management audit for a global Pharmaceutical company.

2009, Awareness training in SIL and SIS (installed SIL). 2005, Awareness training in IEC 61508 / 11 and SIL assessment awareness. 2003, Hazard Study leadership (5 day training course with ABB). 2001, Hazard Assessment (5 day training ABB course on fault tree analysis), 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008 Attended IChemE Hazards conference