The industrial fire and risk engineering team are focussed on ensuring the highest standard of safety and compliance across hazardous industries, including mining, oil and gas, land and sea transport, water and wastewater treatment, process industries and specialty facilities such as research laboratories and healthcare.

We are equally aware of the costs associated with the operational sustainability of fire safety systems so our approach is to provide a ‘fit for purpose’ solution that always takes into account operator human factors to make best use of the systems.

In nearly all regions, government regulates dangerous goods/ hazardous chemicals storage and handling to minimise the likelihood of accidents and to minimise adverse impacts.

A significant challenge posed to operators of dangerous goods and hazardous chemicals facilities is meeting their safety obligations due to dangerous goods safety management requirements being quite onerous.

The RiskEng team are accredited in Dangerous Goods by the Australasian Institute of Dangerous Goods Consultants (AIDGC) and are available to assist in this complex field.

Hazardous Area engineering is predominantly associated with the storage and handling of combustible dusts, flammable liquids and gases at locations, such as laboratories, mines, power stations, chemical storage and manufacturing facilities, as well as shipping and loading facilities.

Our team is skilled and accredited in Hazardous Area Classification, Hazardous Area Design and Hazardous Area Installation auditing. Where appropriate we utilise ‘performance based’ approaches that are compliant and recognised nationally by regulators to add massive value to projects compared with some of the more traditional and esoteric prescriptive approaches.

Operators of MHIs are faced with significant challenges when it comes to complying with strict legislative requirements, maintaining a safe environment for their workers and the broader community, and ensuring their processes and plant are reliable and efficient to meet economic pressures.

Internationally, MHIs are predominately regulated under what is known as the Safety Case Regime. The Safety Case Regime is a performance-based framework for operators of MHIs to demonstrate that adequate, effective and reliable control measures are in place to reduce risks of major accidents to ‘as low as reasonably practicable’ (ALARP).

Over the past four decades, our engineers have been assisting MHI operators and regulatory authorities across the globe with undertaking MHI Risk Assessments, developing and implementing safety cases, and obtaining licenses for MHIs across a broad range of highly hazardous industries.

Our clients choose to work with us, not only because of our years of experience, but mainly because of our hands-on, pragmatic and consultative approach. Most of our engineers have worked as operators in hazardous chemical plants across various industries, and therefore have an in-depth understanding of the complexities involved operating hazardous chemical plants on a day-to-day basis.

An important aspect of our approach includes the application of industry leading tools and software to quantify and analyse risk associated with MHFs, such as offsite risks posed by potential fires, explosions and toxic gas dispersion. Our engineers, however, do not blindly accept the output of these models without scrutinising every input, validating correlations used, and outputs generated. Our philosophy is “if you cannot do the math yourself, you don’t have a license to use the software”.

Our capabilities cover all aspects of risk facilitation from business continuity, corporate governance, Safety in Design, and Process Hazard Analysis across the entire project lifecycle, including planning phases, Front End Engineering Design (FEED), detailed design, construction, operation, maintenance and demolition.

We are experienced in addressing a range of operational risk and value management proposition analyses leading to clearly defined recommendations.

Design for reliability and functional safety is becoming more important in almost all aspects of engineering across hazardous industries. Minimising the probability of failures can significantly improve safety and costs on projects.

Functional safety is concerned with the probability of failure and safety of a “system”, including the safety management of human error, hardware failures, software failures and environmental changes.

Our functional safety engineers are internationally accredited (TÜV Rheinland) and have significant experience in all aspects of functional safety assessments across rail, oil and gas, mining, chemical manufacturing, wastewater treatment and nuclear industries.