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What Qualifies as a Control in Process Safety?

August 6, 2025

What Is Considered a Control in HAZOP, Bowties, and Safety Assessments? Across many types of safety assessment activities, we are invited to..

How to Run an Efficient Procedural HAZOP Without Missing Real Risks

October 2, 2024

Why Cutting Corners in HAZOP Is a Concern For many of us who facilitate Hazop studies, procedural Hazops come our way only rarely. Despite a decade..

HAZOP Challenges Explained: From Double Jeopardy to Poor Documentation

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...

Managing Low-Likelihood, High-Consequence External Events

December 14, 2021

When Is an External Event Truly “Not Credible”? Process safety deals with the low-likelihood, high-severity scenarios, typically in the realms of..

Hazop Failures Explained: Causes, Consequences, and Corrections

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

The Critical Role of a Competent Scribe in HAZOP Studies Much like how an experienced facilitator is critical to the success of a HAZOP, so too is..