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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..

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..

Are you over cooking your Safety Critical Elements?

December 13, 2021

There is a lot of debate and variation in the process of deciding what should be categorised as an SCE. If you have too many SCE you're at risk of..

LOPA Red Flags You Can’t Afford to Ignore

July 3, 2020

Why Poor Quality LOPA Leads to Incorrect Risk Decisions Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is a key technique to quantify the risks of a process..

Minimising Risk at Operating Plants

May 27, 2020

As the understanding of process safety has increased over the last few decades, countries' health and safety legislation has also been updated. There..