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HAZOP – hazard methodology

HAZOP – hazard methodology In our day to day practice we frequently see risk/hazard methodologies being stretched to «fit the clients’ case», or, in other words, tools being selected to deliver results they were not designed for. This is a brief summary for HAZOP, a common process hazard identification methodology. In the coming weeks we will review several of these methodologies and will end the review with a comparison. HAZOP is a structured and systematic examination of a planned or existing…