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For four decades, ABS Group has delivered technical service and expertise across the globe, and our leadership team has helped set the standard for safety and reliability for a wide range of industries.
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John Farquharson

Senior Risk/Reliability Engineer, ABS Group

John Farquharson is a Senior Risk/Reliability Engineer for ABS Group. He has over 30 years of experience in system reliability engineering, safety analysis and risk assessment.

Farquharson has been the project manager and lead analyst for several quantitative risk assessments (QRAs) of nuclear, petrochemical and pharmaceutical processes. He is responsible for developing and teaching various QRA courses that focus on fault tree and event tree analysis techniques and is project manager for ABS Group's support to the DOE National Training Center. He has led and participated in several process hazard analyses for the nuclear, petrochemical, mining and pharmaceutical industries. He currently provides risk assessment and project management support for efforts to develop safety analysis reports for the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Farquharson is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the state of Tennessee and a Certified Reliability Analyst.

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