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HAZOP

When is a control not a control?

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..

Cutting Corners in Procedural HAZOP

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

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...

How do we manage low likelihood external events?

December 14, 2021

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..

HAZOP Failure

June 18, 2020

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..

Why do you need a professional HAZOP scribe ?

June 18, 2020

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..