This webinar examines why standard risk assessment approaches often fall short in complex manufacturing environments, and how a deeper, engineering-led methodology delivers more reliable outcomes
Manufacturing risk is frequently reduced to a checklist of building construction, fire protection, and housekeeping observations. But in facilities running complex thermal, chemical, or mechanical processes, the most consequential exposures sit within the process itself, where failure modes are specific, interdependencies are high, and generic templates rarely capture what matters most.
Webinar Details
Overview
We will explore how process-aware risk assessment moves beyond standard COPE data to examine what actually drives loss likelihood and severity in complex manufacturing: process hazards, control adequacy, maintenance regimes, human factors, and the interaction between equipment, materials, and operating conditions. Using real-world examples, we will show how this approach strengthens decision-making across the risk lifecycle, from underwriting and risk improvement, through to loss investigation and the resolution of technical disputes.
Format:
Live Webinar
Duration:
60 minutes (Including Q&A)
Speakers:
Mamoon Alyah
Amir Pourghorban
Waleed Al-Khatib
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Session 1 – Live: Wednesday, 15th April, 11:00 BST
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Session 2 – Pre-Recorded: Thursday, 16th April, 8:00 BST
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Learning Objectives:
- Why standard risk assessment frameworks can underestimate exposure in process-intensive manufacturing, and where the most common gaps arise
- How process hazard identification differs from general property risk assessment, including the role of failure mode analysis, process flow review, and loss scenario development
- What operational and maintenance indicators experienced engineers look for on site, and how these inform judgements on loss likelihood, severity, and control effectiveness
- How loss scenarios should be constructed for complex manufacturing occupancies, including the influence of process interdependencies, business interruption chains, and contingent exposures
- How engineering-led risk assessment outputs support better decisions
Speakers
Mamoon Alyah
Managing Director, Principal Engineer
Mamoon Alyah is the founder and Managing Director of CEERISK Consulting Ltd, with over 35 years of experience in electrical engineering, forensic investigation, and risk consulting. He is a UK Chartered Engineer and a US Professional Engineer, and he is a Certified Risk Management Professional with an MBA. Mamoon has led complex investigations and risk engineering engagements across multiple jurisdictions, providing independent analysis and reporting for insurers, legal teams, and industrial operators on major equipment failures, fire incidents, and process-related losses in manufacturing and energy assets.
Amir Pourghorban
Senior Engineering Consultant & Head of Scientific Research
Amir Pourghorban is a Senior Engineering Consultant at CEERISK Consulting Ltd. in London, where he provides expert witness support and leads forensic investigations. His engineering background spans the oil and gas, power generation and storage, renewables, and commercial property sectors. He holds dual Master's degrees in Petroleum & Environmental Technology and Reservoir Engineering, and a PhD in Data and AI-driven diagnostics and failure analysis from Cranfield University. In his forensic practice, he specialises in analysing failures related to equipment breakdown, contamination, corrosion, chemical reaction processes, and fire investigations, applying his expertise in thermodynamic and fluid system dynamics to investigate root causes in complex manufacturing and process environments.
Waleed Al-Khatib
Engineering Consultant
Waleed Al-Khatib is an Engineering Consultant at CEERISK's Abu Dhabi office, with a process engineering background and four years of experience in industrial manufacturing and energy environments. He is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM®) and holds a BSc in Energy Engineering from the German Jordanian University. Waleed delivers risk engineering services across power generation, distribution, utilities, manufacturing, and infrastructure, and supports forensic engineering investigations into machinery failures, tank collapses, fires, explosions, and complex industrial incidents, bringing direct process engineering experience to the assessment of manufacturing risk.
