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 20, 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 Gone Mad?
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..
Permit to Work System Audits - Some Findings
November 16, 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 for Water Treatment Facilities
May 23, 2023
Sodium Hypochlorite vs Chlorine for Water Treatment Facilities
What does a suitable SCE mean?
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..
Exciting Changes for 2023
April 18, 2023
Safety Solutions has recently expanded internationally over the last year, and we would love to share these changes with you. We now operate over 5..
Alarm Management Red Flags
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
History of hazardous area classification
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..