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SIL in North America
21 SIL practitioners covering determination, assessment and verification of safety instrumented functions to IEC 61508 / 61511 in North America — to set, and then prove, the performance target for each safety instrumented function.
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.
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.
Snakard Consulting Group
A small Virginia-based process-safety specialist that also operates in Qatar through a local sponsor — a fit for refining, chemical, manufacturing and pharmaceutical operators wanting a boutique PHA provider with US and Middle East reach.
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.
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.
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.
PUR Ingenieur GmbH
A plant-engineering firm that runs HAZOP studies with its own in-house moderators — a fit for operators who want the facilitator and the plant designer under one roof, drawing on the firm's detailed knowledge of the plant's own parameters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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