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# Process Safety Blog

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## [Revalidation Is Not Renewal: Ensuring Process Safety Studies Reflect Current Facility Risks](https://blog.safetysolutions.com.au/revalidation-is-not-renewal-ensuring-process-safety-studies-reflect-current-facility-risks?hsLang=en-au)

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..

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## [Critical Risk Program Red Flags](https://blog.safetysolutions.com.au/critical-risk-program-red-flags?hsLang=en-au)

April 6, 2026

 Serious incidents rarely occur because organisations were unaware of their hazards, they occur because critical risks were not clearly identified,..

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## [Should Process Safety Practitioners be Independent?](https://blog.safetysolutions.com.au/should-process-safety-practitioners-be-independent?hsLang=en-au)

March 31, 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..

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## [What Qualifies as a Control in Process Safety?](https://blog.safetysolutions.com.au/what-is-a-control-in-process-safety?hsLang=en-au)

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..

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## [Common Bowtie Mistakes and How to Avoid Them](https://blog.safetysolutions.com.au/common-bowtie-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them?hsLang=en-au)

January 13, 2022

 Bowties provide a graphical representation of an incident pathway connecting the causes of events to their consequences. In many instances, the..

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## [A Bowtie for Endurance Swimming](https://blog.safetysolutions.com.au/a-bowtie-for-endurance-swimming?hsLang=en-au)

June 13, 2020

 In the process safety world, the development of bowties are part of the toolkit we have at our disposal to communicate how risks around a specific..

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## [Minimising Risk at Operating Plants](https://blog.safetysolutions.com.au/minimising-risk-at-operating-plants?hsLang=en-au)

May 23, 2020

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

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