SPA Process Safety Open to connect

Advisory

Where I can help

After 15+ years leading this work inside major operations, I'm always glad to talk through a hard process-safety problem — usually the kind that's easier to untangle with an experienced, independent perspective. These are the areas I'm asked about most. If any of it is on your plate, let's talk.

An independent perspective · Remote · Worldwide

Hazard analysis

A HAZOP or LOPA is overdue — or you are not fully confident the safeguards hold.

HAZOP & LOPA, facilitated independently

An impartial, certified facilitator can move a study forward and give the team confidence the right scenarios and safeguards have really been tested — worked remotely with your people, from a first study to a five-year revalidation.

How I'd help

  • HAZOP, LOPA, HAZID, What-If and L2RA, led to a structured, auditable method
  • Up-front framing: node definition, team make-up, and methodology selection
  • Live remote sessions with shared worksheets and integrated scribing
  • Safeguard and IPL adequacy tested; risk-ranked, prioritised recommendations
  • Revalidation of existing PHAs against MoC history and incident learnings
Deliverable
Audit- and MoC-ready PHA/LOPA worksheets, a prioritised action register with a clear close-out path, and native AE Facilitator files retained for traceability.
Outcome
Defensible risk decisions and a clean compliance trail — without the cost or delay of travel.
Talk it through
Overpressure protection

You need a relief and overpressure basis you can defend at audit.

Pressure relief & overpressure, reviewed

A second, experienced look at your relief basis — sizing, scenarios and registers worked remotely from your P&IDs and process data, so the protection that is meant to hold actually will.

How I'd help

  • Relief scenario selection and overpressure cause analysis (API 520 / 521, ASME VIII)
  • PSV and relief-device sizing and verification, including fire and blocked-outlet cases
  • Process Safety Time (PST) evaluation and protection-layer alignment
  • Relief Device Register build-out as a single source of truth
  • Risk-based testing-interval strategy balancing integrity, compliance and downtime
Deliverable
A documented relief basis, sizing calculations, a populated relief-device register, and an inspection / test-interval strategy.
Outcome
Right-sized, code-compliant protection — with the evidence to back it at audit.
Talk it through

How we'd work together

  1. 01

    A first conversation

    A short, no-obligation call to understand the problem, the documents, and what good looks like for you.

  2. 02

    Work it remotely

    Facilitated sessions or engineering worked over video and shared screens, on your schedule and time zone.

  3. 03

    Hand it over

    Clear, audit- and MoC-ready files — worksheets, registers, and a prioritised path to close the actions out.

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What are you
wrestling with?

An overdue revalidation, an alarm flood, a relief-sizing question you want a second opinion on — or something that does not fit neatly in a box. Tell me a little about it and I'll come back to you personally.

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