Process Safety
Helping Facilities Make Meaningful Progress
Process Safety is about more than compliance.
Effective Process Safety programs identify hazards, evaluate and manage risk, maintain critical safeguards, and support safe, reliable operations.
Program needs vary by facility. Some organizations are developing new programs, while others are maintaining mature systems, responding to audit findings, implementing recommendations, or addressing organizational changes and resource limitations.
Smith & Burgess provides Process Safety engineering, facilitation, program development, and implementation support tailored to facility requirements. Our services help owner-operators strengthen management systems, improve technical decision-making, resolve outstanding actions, and maintain effective Process Safety practices.
Does This Sound Familiar?
Process Safety challenges are rarely caused by a lack of procedures or good intentions.
Program gaps commonly develop from competing operational priorities, limited technical resources, organizational changes, unclear responsibilities, and incomplete resolution of identified improvements.
“We have hundreds of recommendations, but we are not sure where to start.”
“We have hundreds of recommendations, but we are not sure where to start.”
“Our most experienced Process Safety people have retired or will be soon.”
“Different teams own different parts of Process Safety, but some issues do not clearly belong to anyone.”
“We're trying to improve while keeping the facility running.”
“We do not need a large consulting project. We need experienced professionals who can help us move forward.”
Where We Can Help
Process Safety Management
Establish and strengthen management systems that define requirements, clarify responsibilities, and support regulatory compliance.
Process Safety Support
Identify hazards, evaluate risk, and assess safeguards through structured hazard and risk studies.
Process Hazard and Risk Studies
Identify hazards, evaluate risk, and assess safeguards through structured hazard and risk studies.
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Mechanical Integrity and Asset Integrity
Protect critical equipment through risk-based programs that strengthen reliability, integrity, and asset performance.
Management of Change
Protect critical equipment through risk-based programs that strengthen reliability, integrity, and asset performance.
Why Choose Smith & Burgess?
No two facilities face the same Process Safety challenges.
Requirements vary based on facility operations, program maturity, regulatory obligations, available resources, and existing work processes. Support may include facilitating a HAZOP, strengthening Process Safety Management systems, improving Mechanical Integrity, resolving long-standing recommendations, managing technical changes, or supplementing internal capabilities.
Smith & Burgess evaluates existing programs, technical requirements, operating conditions, responsibilities, and implementation constraints to define priorities and develop an appropriate scope of work.
Our Process Safety and engineering experience supports technically sound recommendations, effective execution, and sustainable program improvements aligned with facility operations.
Let's Start the Conversation
Whether addressing a specific technical need, resolving audit findings, strengthening a Process Safety program, or supplementing internal resources, Smith & Burgess provides support aligned with facility requirements and priorities.
Contact Smith & Burgess to discuss your Process Safety challenges and priorities.