Consultants / Services / LOPA / North America

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.

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Risk Management Professionals

new HAZOP facilitationLOPA

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.

Irvine, California, USA North America
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Patronus Energy

new HAZOP facilitationPHA

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.

Edmond, Oklahoma, USA North America
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Orcus Fire & Risk

PHA facilitationHAZOP facilitation

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.

Houston, Texas, USA North AmericaGlobal
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River Rock Consulting Inc.

HAZOP facilitationHAZID

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.

Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Canada
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Risknology, Inc.

HAZOP facilitationHAZID

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.

Houston, Texas, United States North AmericaGlobal
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RskLess

HAZOP facilitationHAZID

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.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada CanadaGlobal
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Petra Engineers & Consultants Ltd

HAZOP facilitationHAZID

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.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada CanadaNorth America
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Nebula Safety & Environmental

HAZOP facilitationLOPA

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.

Irvine, California, USA North AmericaUSA
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exida Latinoamérica – España

HAZOPHAZID

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.

Mexico Latin AmericaSpain
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Cteris Consulting

HAZOPHAZID

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.

Sarnia, Ontario, Canada North America
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Peak Safety Management Consulting

HAZOPLOPA

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.

Canada North AmericaCanadaUSA
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ICE Middle East Consultancy

HAZOP facilitationHAZID

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.

Abu Dhabi, UAE (offices in Cairo, Basra, Muscat & Toronto) Middle EastAfricaNorth AmericaGlobal
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Kaypear

HAZOPLOPA

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.

Vadodara, Gujarat, India IndiaAsiaNorth America
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Bluefield Process Safety

HAZOP facilitationPHA facilitation

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.

St. Louis, Missouri, USA North America
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Fidelis Associates

HAZOP facilitationWhat-If analysis

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.

Houston, Texas, USA (office in Salt Lake City, Utah) North America
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IFO Group

HAZOP facilitationHAZID

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.

The Woodlands, Texas, USA (offices in New Caney & Beaumont) North America
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Trinity Consultants

PHA facilitationHAZOP facilitation

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.

Dallas, Texas, USA (global offices) North AmericaEuropeAsiaAustraliaGlobal
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Risktec (TUV Rheinland)

HAZOP facilitationPHA

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.

Warrington, UK (global offices) UKEuropeMiddle EastAsiaNorth AmericaGlobal
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Process & Safety Solutions (PSS)

HAZOP facilitationHAZID

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.

Pearland, Texas, USA North America
Independent

Lupatech

HAZOP facilitationWhat-If

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.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada Canada
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Icarus-ORM

HAZOP facilitationLOPA

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.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada CanadaGlobal
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Process Risk

HAZOPPHA facilitation

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.

Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA USAGlobal
Firm

Prime Process Safety Center

HAZOPPHA facilitation

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.

Cypress, Texas, USA USAGlobal
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Global PSM Solutions

HAZOP chairHAZID

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.

Oakville, Ontario, Canada North AmericaGlobal
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CST Risk Management

HAZOP chairWhat-If

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.

Bogotá, Colombia (office in Weston, Florida, USA) South AmericaNorth America
Firm

Watchmen Industrial Safety Experts (WISE)

HAZOP chairLOPA

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.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada North America
Firm

SDS Consulting

HAZOP chairHAZID

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.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada North AmericaGlobal
Firm

exida

HAZOP chairCHAZOP

The functional-safety heavyweight — the natural choice when your HAZOP feeds directly into LOPA, SIL determination, and safety instrumented systems work.

Sellersville, Pennsylvania, USA North AmericaCanadaEuropeUKIrelandGermanyMiddle EastAsiaSoutheast AsiaAustraliaNew ZealandGlobal
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Sigma-HSE

HAZOP facilitationHAZOP chair

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.

Winchester, UK (offices in USA & India) UKEuropeNorth AmericaAsiaAfrica
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ioMosaic

HAZOP chairLOPA

Deep bench on pressure relief and consequence analysis — strong when HAZOP actions are likely to cascade into relief-system redesign.

Salem, New Hampshire, USA (global offices) North AmericaEuropeMiddle EastGlobal
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Kenexis

HAZOP chairLOPA

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.

Columbus, Ohio, USA North AmericaGlobal
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aeSolutions

HAZOP chairLOPA

Full lifecycle shop: the same firm can facilitate the PHA, then engineer the safety systems the action items call for.

Greenville, South Carolina, USA North America
Firm

PSRG (Process Safety & Reliability Group)

HAZOP chairLOPA

Houston-based with genuine international reach — a frequent facilitator for Middle East mega-project HAZOP campaigns.

Houston, Texas, USA (global offices) North AmericaMiddle EastGlobal

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