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Risk & Process Safety

Operational risk, understood and under control.

RISQ partners with high-hazard operators to identify what can go wrong, prove the barriers that prevent it, and keep complex operations running safely — through structured risk studies, barrier management and disciplined follow-through.

Founded by practitioners from live oil & gas operations
Threat Threat Threat Consequence Consequence Consequence TOP EVENT Preventive barriers Mitigative barriers
Bowtie — how we make major-hazard risk visible and defensible
Serving Oil & Gas Energy Petrochemical Drilling & Wells Mining Heavy Industry
What we do

From hazard to closed action.

Four connected services — so risk work doesn't end as a report on a shelf, but as barriers that hold and actions that close.

Risk Studies & Assessments

Structured studies scoped, executed and quality-assured end to end — with findings translated into prioritised, owned actions your teams can actually close.

HAZIDHAZOPSILSBRAHCRARisk registers

Bowtie & Barrier Management

Major-accident hazards mapped as living bowties — threats, consequences and the preventive and mitigative barriers between them, with criticality, ownership and degradation made visible to leadership.

Bowtie developmentBarrier healthMAH frameworksSafety-critical elements

Risk for Complex Operations

Hands-on risk support where it's hardest — simultaneous operations, heavy lifts, well work, shutdowns and brownfield activity — so high-consequence work is planned, challenged and controlled before it starts.

SIMOPSLifting operationsShutdowns & turnaroundsWells & drilling

Training & Capability

Practical training in risk assessment methods, barrier thinking and risk ownership — built for operations teams and decision-makers, designed to leave capability behind, not dependence.

Method trainingBarrier thinkingRisk ownershipWorkshops
Methods we master

The right method, done rigorously.

Every technique has a job. We help you choose the right one — and run it to a standard that stands up to audit and regulator scrutiny.

HAZID

Hazard Identification

Early, broad identification of hazards across a facility, project or change — before they're designed in.

HAZOP

Hazard & Operability Study

Systematic, guideword-driven review of process deviations and their safeguards, node by node.

SIL

Safety Integrity Level

Assessment and classification of instrumented safety functions so protection matches the risk it carries.

SBRA

Scenario-Based Risk Assessment

Operational scenarios assessed against your risk matrix with controls, residual risk and actions that close.

Bowtie

Barrier-Based Analysis

Threats, top event, consequences — and the barriers in between — in one picture leadership can act on.

HCRA

High-Consequence Risk Assessment

Focused assessment of high-consequence activities so critical controls are explicit, owned and verified.

Complex Operations

Where activity is dense, risk compounds.

The hardest risk isn't in a single unit — it's where operations overlap: a heavy lift over live process, well work beside production, a turnaround compressing months of activity into weeks. We bring structure to exactly these moments.

Simultaneous operations (SIMOPS)

Interaction risks identified, deconflicted and governed before work fronts collide.

Lifting & heavy operations

Lift plans risk-assessed and categorised, with critical lifts challenged before the hook moves.

Shutdowns & turnarounds

Compressed schedules kept honest — risk reviewed at the pace the plan changes.

Wells, drilling & brownfield work

Rig and well-work risk managed alongside live operations, not in isolation from them.

R R′ LIKELIHOOD SEVERITY Initial risk Residual after controls
Controls that demonstrably move the risk
Training

Risk & process safety training that sticks.

Practical, practitioner-led training for operations teams, engineers and leaders — built around real scenarios from high-hazard industry, not slideware. Every course is tailored to your operation and designed to change how people see and own risk on the job.

Delivery: in-house, on site or virtual — from half-day awareness sessions to multi-day working courses, always hands-on and tailored to your assets and procedures.
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Risk Assessment Foundations

Hazards, scenarios, matrices and controls — how to assess risk credibly and consistently.

Process Safety Fundamentals

Major hazards, layers of protection and what keeps a facility safe — for everyone who works in one.

Bowtie & Barrier Thinking

Reading, building and challenging bowties — and what it means to truly own a barrier.

Risk Leadership for Decision-Makers

For supervisors and managers — making risk-based decisions and leading the conversations that matter.

Learning from Incidents

Investigation essentials and turning events — and near-misses — into lasting operational learning.

Risk in Complex Operations

SIMOPS, lifts and turnarounds — planning and controlling work where activities overlap.

How we work

A disciplined path, every time.

1

Scope

Understand the operation, the hazards that matter and the decision the work must support.

2

Assess

Run the right method rigorously — with the right people in the room and the data on the table.

3

Act

Convert findings into prioritised, owned actions — and barriers with named custodians.

4

Sustain

Keep it alive: track actions to closure, monitor barrier health, review when the operation changes.

Our platform

IMPACT — risk management, kept alive digitally.

Everything above runs better in one system. IMPACT is our digital platform for managing risk assessments, bowties and barriers, critical activities, actions and incidents — one live picture instead of scattered spreadsheets, available to our clients as part of how we work.

Risk assessmentsBowties & barriersAction trackingCritical activitiesIncidents & HSEReports & KPIs
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Why RISQ

Built by the people who carry the risk.

RISQ was founded from inside live oil & gas operations — by people who've owned the assessments, the barriers and the consequences. Our advice is practical, our studies drive action, and our standards hold up in front of auditors and regulators.

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01

Operations-born, not theory-born

Methods shaped on real assets, real deadlines and real audits.

02

Action, not paperwork

Every study ends in prioritised, owned actions — and we stay until they close.

03

Barriers you can defend

Clear line of sight from major hazards to the controls that hold them — and their health.

04

Your capability, our goal

We measure success by what your team can see, decide and do without us.

Contact

Let's talk about your operation.

Tell us what you're trying to solve — a study, a bowtie programme, support for a complex campaign, training, or a look at the IMPACT platform. We'll come back with a concrete next step.

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