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Lessons From Our HAZOP Facilitators

Our HAZOP Facilitators have sat through more HAZOPs than they can count, both outside of Vanguard and during their time working with us; chairing them, scribing them, working the design side of the table, and for some, just observing as a fresh graduate. This combined experience where the real lessons live. So we sat a few of them down and asked what they've learn from their years of facilitation.

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The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

By Theo Chieng & Brendan Fitzgerald First Published on LinkedIn on 28th of January, 2025 “A safety engineer requires knowledge, tact and, at times, more than a little courage”- An operating company management system. Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a painful reminder to the world that space travel is never routine. Just Another Launch On the 28th...

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What Role Now for Risk Assessment?

By Brendan FitzgeraldFirst Published in Australian Oil & Gas on 14/07/2004A new generation of engineers and operators have entered the Oil & Gas industry since 6 July 1988, when the Piper Alpha platform disaster claimed 167 lives.  Those of us who worked through that period and were part of the implementation of the safety case regime that arose from it have a rare opportunity to...

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