Dr. Henrique Paula
Senior Consultant
Dr. Henrique Paula has decades of experience in process safety management, root cause analysis/incident investigation, reliability, integrity management activities, including mechanical integrity and asset integrity programs. He has managed, acted as a leader, or otherwise participated in well over 100 projects involving a variety of technology in several industries, including oil & gas offshore and onshore production, refining, petrochemical, chemical, power generation/ distribution, mining, nuclear, defense, and manufacturing. In 2019-2020, he was the leader of the technical investigation of the high-profile mine disaster (Brumadinho, MG, Brazil, involving 270 fatalities) by directing a team of 20+ specialists in incident investigation, root cause analysis, safety culture, and geotechnical disciplines. The executive summary earned mentioning in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other media.
Dr. Paula has provided consulting/training services in about 30 countries, and he has instructed for the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). He authored or co-authored more than 150 technical reports and papers for leading trade journals and industry associations, served as guest editor for a special issue of the journal Reliability Engineering and System Safety and wrote sections of Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Assessment and Guidelines for Developing Quantitative Safety Risk Criteria (both by AIChE). He is a certified reliability analyst.