Mr. Harris has over 20 years of experience supporting the safe deployment of hydrogen fuel cell technologies and fueling infrastructure across a wide range of transportation applications. He has led safety and compliance initiatives for hydrogen vehicle and infrastructure systems, developed organizational safety programs, and contributed to the advancement of hydrogen safety standards globally.
Mr. Harris has comprehensive experience with the safe implementation of hydrogen energy projects and has hands-on experience developing, implementing, training and conducting operations, maintenance, and incident response for hydrogen fueling vehicles and infrastructure. He has applied that hands-on experience in participation in workshops, technical committees and working groups leading to the development and the subsequent improvement of several hydrogen safety codes, standards and regulations such as NFPA 2, CSA HPIT 1 and SAE J2601/3.
He has contributed technical expertise through patents, white papers, root cause investigations, consequence modeling and validation testing. Additionally, he has contributed to national and global regulatory framework development and gap assessment efforts. He helped spearhead the development of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS), serving as the first chairperson of the Managing Board.
He helped develop a private industry-led consortium to develop, procure and perform validation testing of heavy-duty hydrogen fast flow hardware; an effort requiring a convincing shared safety philosophy sufficient for 6 companies to invest private funds to co-develop product safety standards.