Safety Articles & Guides

This series has traced one investigation backward, from a fall at a processing plant through six failed barriers, five preconditions, […]

Ask five people on a typical Malaysian worksite whether a Risk Assessment or a Job Hazard Analysis governs a specific

Pull ten Job Hazard Analyses from almost any Malaysian worksite and a pattern shows up quickly: a meaningful number of

An investigation report is written for accuracy. Getting it right — establishing the timeline, tracing the causation chain, confirming findings

A Bowtie diagram at a Malaysian major hazard facility can pass its annual audit three years running — barriers listed,

Four separate cases, four separate facilities, and one recurring pattern: the same investigation process, applied to four different situations, produced

Bowtie methodology’s independence test is usually applied to equipment: does one barrier share a component, a power source, or a

A HIRARC that passes every audit is not the same thing as a HIRARC that accurately describes the hazards on

Ask most HSE practitioners why their last incident investigation happened, and the honest answer rarely has anything to do with

The residual risk column in a HIRARC document records one thing: the risk level after controls are applied. Low, Medium,