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LOPA in USA
17 LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) facilitators who take HAZOP scenarios through initiating-event and independent-protection-layer analysis to a residual-risk gap in USA — 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
exida
The functional-safety heavyweight — the natural choice when your HAZOP feeds directly into LOPA, SIL determination, and safety instrumented systems work.
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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