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Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment and Safety Engineering

Welcome to the Risky Business Ltd  Website!

Risky Business Ltd is a small consultancy based in Hampshire, UK. The company provides safety engineering, risk management and reliability services to various industry sectors including Oil & Gas (Onshore and Offshore), Chemical, Nuclear, Rail and Defence.

A wide range of HSE services are offered including:

• Production of Safety Cases;
• Performance of Safety Studies (such as Fire and Explosion analysis, impact and dropped object studies, toxic and radio-active materials dispersion, escape evacuation and rescue analysis ERRA, ALARP studies, etc);
• Risk management including qualitative (using risk matrix approach) and Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA);
• Reliability assessment of protection systems (e.g. High Integrity Pressure Protection, ‘HIPPs’, systems);
• SIL (Safety Integrity Levels) requirements to IEC 61508;
• Safety management systems;
• Hazard identification (HAZID, HAZOP, SWIFT, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Functional Failure analysis (FFA));
• Consequence analysis including dispersion analysis, thermal radiation, blast effects, toxic and radio-active materials, missiles, etc;
• Frequency assessment using Fault and Event Tree (FTA and ETA) analysis.

Risky Business is managed by Dr.David Brown who is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (MIChemE) and a registered Loss Prevention Specialist with the IChemE. David has many years experience in the fields of safety and risk management across several industry sectors.

Risky Business can be contacted as follows:

Risky Business Ltd,

11. Downs View,

Holybourne,

Alton,

Hampshire GU34 4HY,

United Kingdom.

Tel: 01420 542712

e-mails: dave@riskyb.freeserve.co.uk  or

risky.business@tiscali.co.uk