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LOPA in North America
33 LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) facilitators who take HAZOP scenarios through initiating-event and independent-protection-layer analysis to a residual-risk gap in North America — after a HAZOP flags a scenario that may need a safety instrumented function, to size the required risk reduction.
Risk Management Professionals
A California process-safety and regulatory-compliance engineering firm whose engineers facilitate and scribe HAZOP, What-If and HAZID studies, a fit for US operators managing EPA RMP, OSHA PSM and CalARP programs alongside their process hazard analyses.
Patronus Energy
A boutique process-safety consultancy focused on PSM compliance for oil and gas operating companies, a fit for small to mid-sized operators wanting remotely facilitated PHAs and HAZOP/LOPA reviews scheduled around operations.
Orcus Fire & Risk
A Houston fire, risk and process safety consultancy offering process hazard analysis facilitation alongside fire and explosion modelling, a fit for oil, gas, LNG and power operators wanting HAZOP/PHA facilitation combined with consequence modelling, LOPA and SIL work.
River Rock Consulting Inc.
A Newfoundland engineering consultancy that supplies expert leadership, facilitation and software for HAZID, HAZOP, PHA, LOPA and scenario-based risk assessments, a fit for onshore and offshore energy, mining and utilities operators in Atlantic Canada wanting facilitation alongside technical and process-safety engineering.
Risknology, Inc.
A Houston risk-technology firm whose HAZOP leaders hold a broad range of client-required certifications, a fit for oil and gas, LNG and petrochemical operators wanting HAZOP and HAZID facilitation linked to LOPA, quantitative risk analysis and consequence modelling for onshore and offshore facilities.
RskLess
A Calgary process-safety consultancy whose team states it has facilitated thousands of risk assessments for EPCs and operators, a fit for oil and gas, refining and chemical clients wanting HAZOP, HAZID, What-If, CHAZOP and LOPA facilitation alongside QRA, functional safety and PSM support.
Petra Engineers & Consultants Ltd
A Calgary-based oil and gas engineering consultancy whose specialist services include facilitation of HAZOP, HAZID, What-If and LOPA studies by a Certified Functional Safety Expert, a fit for upstream, midstream and downstream operators running smaller tie-in, de-bottlenecking and optimisation projects.
Nebula Safety & Environmental
A California-based process safety and environmental boutique offering HAZOP/LOPA facilitation with strong US regulatory coverage (EPA RMP, OSHA PSM, CalARP) — a fit for domestic operators needing PHA delivered inside a compliance program.
exida Latinoamérica – España
The Spanish-language arm of exida serving Latin America and Spain, listing HAZOP, HAZID and QRA among its process-hazard-analysis services alongside functional-safety and alarm-management work — a fit for process-industry operators wanting PHA facilitation in Spanish.
Cteris Consulting
A Sarnia (Ontario) process-safety, reliability and risk consultancy offering PHA facilitation — HAZID, HAZOP and What-If — alongside LOPA, SIL determination and verification, alarm-management and RAM studies, and IEC 61511 life-cycle support.
Peak Safety Management Consulting
A Canadian health, safety and process-safety consultancy offering HAZOP/PHA facilitation — HAZOP, LOPA, What-If and FMEA — alongside PSM program development to CSA and OSHA requirements, working across Canada and the United States.
ICE Middle East Consultancy
An ADNOC-approved inspection and engineering consultancy (established in Cairo in 2001, now headquartered in Abu Dhabi with offices in Egypt, Iraq, Oman and Canada) whose Risk Engineering practice facilitates HAZID/ENVID, HAZOP/PHA, LOPA and SIL assessment studies for oil, gas and petrochemical assets.
Kaypear
An India-based process-safety consultancy whose staff run the full PHA toolkit — HAZOP, LOPA, What-If and QRA — backed by an in-house reactive-chemistry lab for ARSST thermal-stability testing.
Bluefield Process Safety
Small, independent US process-safety consultancy that facilitates HAZOPs, dust hazard analyses and LOPAs and shares its methods so client teams can carry the work forward — a fit for chemical, refining, oil-and-gas and grain-handling operators wanting lean, facilitator-led studies.
Fidelis Associates
A US process-safety consultancy whose FidelisCore team provides experienced, independent PHA facilitators for HAZOP, What-If and LOPA studies across refining, petrochemical, hydrogen and LNG operations — a fit for OSHA PSM-covered operators needing initial PHAs, five-year revalidations or MOC-triggered studies led by an independent chair.
IFO Group
A Texas-based safety, risk and fire consultancy whose consultants facilitate and scribe the full range of PHA studies — HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA, What-If, FMEA, Bow-Tie and SIS reviews — a fit for Gulf Coast refining, petrochemical and chemical operators needing an independent facilitator, a scribe, or revalidation of existing studies under OSHA PSM and EPA RMP.
Trinity Consultants
A large environmental and engineering consultancy whose process-safety team has facilitated hundreds of PHAs — HAZOP, LOPA, FMEA and What-If — with remote or co-located facilitation, scribing, revalidation and QA/QC review, a fit for US and international operators wanting facilitation backed by a full PSM/RMP compliance practice.
Risktec (TUV Rheinland)
A specialist risk-management consultancy (part of TUV Rheinland) with a large pool of client-approved HAZOP/PHA and LOPA chairs and proficient scribes, working from offices in the UK, Netherlands, Middle East (Doha, Dubai), Southeast Asia (Kuala Lumpur, Singapore) and North America — a fit for operators wanting facilitation from an established international bench across high-hazard industries.
Process & Safety Solutions (PSS)
A Houston-area (Pearland, Texas) process-safety consultancy whose facilitators have led hundreds of PHAs — HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA, What-If and SIL — for oil & gas, petrochemical, refining and ammonia-refrigeration sites, a fit for OSHA PSM / EPA RMP-covered US operators wanting an experienced independent PHA chair.
Lupatech
A Calgary-based independent whose facilitator pairs process-safety method with deep process-engineering knowledge, stating more than 10 years in facilitation and over 35 years in the oil & gas industry — a fit for operators wanting a hands-on chair for HAZOP, What-If and LOPA studies.
Icarus-ORM
A Calgary operational-risk-management firm focused solely on PHA and decision support, delivering HAZOP and LOPA with a structured decision-analysis approach and its own HAZOP360 software and PHA training — a fit for operators who want risk studies that translate into defensible investment decisions.
Process Risk
A US process-safety consultancy focused on PHA/HAZOP facilitation and SIL/LOPA verification for petroleum and energy operators, offering either a combined lead-and-scribe facilitator or a separate scribe, and fluent in PHA-Pro and PHAWorks documentation.
Prime Process Safety Center
A Texas process-safety consulting and testing center whose PHA offering (HAZOP, LOPA, HIRA) sits alongside a strong combustible-dust and electrostatic-hazard specialty — useful for solids-handling and powder-processing plants needing both dust testing and hazard facilitation.
Global PSM Solutions
A Canadian process-safety boutique focused on chairing and facilitating PHA sessions — HAZOP, HAZAN, HAZID, What-If, LOPA and SIL — that travels to client sites worldwide, with a sideline in PHA methodology and PHA-Pro software training for oil & gas, chemical, petrochemical and mining operators.
CST Risk Management
Bogotá-based process-risk consultancy delivering HAZOP studies in Spanish across Latin America, with a US office in Florida and its own PHA and bow-tie software — a local-language option for Colombian and wider Latin American chemical, petrochemical and oil & gas operators, and the directory's first Colombian firm.
Watchmen Industrial Safety Experts (WISE)
Calgary process- and functional-safety boutique whose named principals hold CFSE and TÜV Rheinland functional safety credentials — a fit for Canadian and US operators wanting PHA facilitation joined up with SIS/SIL lifecycle, alarm management and fire & gas work under CSA Z767 and IEC 61511.
SDS Consulting
Calgary-based facilitator that has run thousands of HAZOPs for Canadian and international oil & gas operators, documenting studies live in PHA-Pro — a fit for greenfield and revalidation studies across energy, power and process assets.
exida
The functional-safety heavyweight — the natural choice when your HAZOP feeds directly into LOPA, SIL determination, and safety instrumented systems work.
Sigma-HSE
Combines HAZOP facilitation with in-house, ISO/IEC 17025-accredited dust flammability and chemical reaction hazard (DSC/ARC) testing labs — useful when a study raises reactive- or explosion-hazard questions the team can't answer from the P&ID.
ioMosaic
Deep bench on pressure relief and consequence analysis — strong when HAZOP actions are likely to cascade into relief-system redesign.
Kenexis
Instrumented-safeguards specialists — a good chair when the study's real question is whether the interlocks and fire-and-gas coverage actually close the risk gap.
aeSolutions
Full lifecycle shop: the same firm can facilitate the PHA, then engineer the safety systems the action items call for.
PSRG (Process Safety & Reliability Group)
Houston-based with genuine international reach — a frequent facilitator for Middle East mega-project HAZOP campaigns.
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