Why Organisations Fail to Budget for SFAIRP
May 21, 2025
Throughout an Australasian operating facility’s life, it is required to have its risks in a SFARP / SFAIRP state. That is, their risks are eliminated..
How to Run an Efficient Procedural HAZOP Without Missing Real Risks
October 2, 2024
For many of us who facilitate Hazop studies, procedural Hazops come our way only rarely. Despite a decade or so of facilitating continuous process..
HAZOP Challenges Explained: From Double Jeopardy to Poor Documentation
April 24, 2024
From my experience as a HAZOP leader, there are several challenges I have experienced that could compromise the integrity of the recorded minutes...
SFAIRP in Practice: How to Prevent Over‑the‑Top Safety Measures
April 20, 2024
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..
Auditing Permit to Work Systems: Key Findings and Practical Insights
November 17, 2023
Permit systems are an important part of work control at operating facilities where equipment is handed over from the permit issuer to the permit..
Sodium Hypochlorite vs Chlorine in Water Treatment
May 23, 2023
Water processing facilities have a requirement to ensure the quality of the output meets consumption or discharge requirements via an appropriate..
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What Makes a Safety-Critical Element (SCE) Suitable?
May 9, 2023
The MHF regulations require that safety-critical elements (SCEs) are verified to be suitable, but what does this mean in practice? We could say it..
Common Alarm Management Failures and How to Identify Them
April 6, 2023
With the advent of modern control systems, we have the unlimited capacity to configure alarms. This has resulted in many poor practices leading to..
What makes a competent hazardous area classifier?
March 29, 2023
Hazardous area classification dates back to the 18th century when the demand for energy to power the industrial revolution, and the growing demands..
What are Hazardous Areas and how are they classified?
January 17, 2023
Many areas may contain hazards, but the term “Hazardous Area” is specifically applied to locations where the likelihood of coincidentally creating..