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..

In operating environments, we constantly are trying to balance several goals which often can be in conflict from each other. These include trying to..

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..

From my experience as a HAZOP leader, there are several challenges I have experienced that could compromise the integrity of the recorded minutes...

Process safety deals with the low-likelihood, high-severity scenarios, typically in the realms of occurring once every 1,000 to once every 1,000,000..

A HAZOP can fail in a number of ways and it is the responsibility of the facilitator to monitor these potential failure modes and course correct..

Much like how an experienced facilitator is critical to the success of a HAZOP, so too is the need for a competent scribe with the appropriate..