Diarmaid Ruth

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,..

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..

For many of us who facilitate Hazop studies, procedural Hazops come our way only rarely. Despite a decade or so of facilitating continuous process..

A few years ago – around the time the Health & Safety at Work Act was coming into effect here in New Zealand – a friend and I met for a beer. He..