Revalidation Is Not Renewal: Ensuring Process Safety Studies Reflect Current Facility Risks
July 9, 2026
HAZOPs, Bowties, LOPAs, and SFAIRP Assessments are often treated as finished products. In practice, they are a snapshot of a facility at a point in..
What If Your Manager Rejects a Process Safety Concern?
July 8, 2026
One of the most difficult situations a process safety professional can face is finding a genuine safety concern and realising that the person..
Addressing the Process Safety Competency Gap
July 8, 2026
Over the years, one thing has become consistently clear to me: most organisations care deeply about process safety, but far fewer have a clear,..
Critical Risk Program Red Flags
April 6, 2026
Serious incidents rarely occur because organisations were unaware of their hazards, they occur because critical risks were not clearly identified,..
Should Process Safety Practitioners be Independent?
April 1, 2026
In operating environments, we constantly are trying to balance several goals which often can be in conflict from each other. These include trying to..
When a SIF not a SIF? How Companies Get Functional Safety Wrong
February 28, 2026
In the world of functional safety, there is a persistent and costly illusion, the belief that a Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) remains effective..
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VOSL Challenges in Australia and New Zealand
October 22, 2025
Value of a Statistical Life (VOSL) is a way to express the social cost of a fatality so safety decisions can be supported by cost–benefit analysis..
Lessons Learned from Verifying Safety-Critical Elements (SCEs)
October 22, 2025
It has been almost 10 to 15 years since Major Hazard Facility (MHF) regulations were implemented across New Zealand and Australia respectively. While..
Untangling the Timelines of Safety in Design
August 6, 2025
The 2004 film Primer has a notoriously complex plotline. In one scene, our protagonists load the parts for a time machine into a second time machine,..
What Qualifies as a Control in Process Safety?
August 6, 2025
Across many types of safety assessment activities, we are invited to consider how a hazard scenario would play out in the absence of controls. The..