We conduct enterprise or business level risk assessments. We have done this with a variety of organisations in differing sectors. These risk assessments are targeted at identifying organisational goals and aspirations and identifying and assessing the threats to these. These risk assessments conform to the general requirements of AS NZS ISO 31000-2009 ("Risk Management"). Typically these risk assessments have included meetings and facilitated workshops to allow participants familiar with an organisation to raise risk issues and discuss the risk controls that the organisation has to address these. Risk assessment usually involves various methods of qualitative or semi-quantitative determination of a risk rating based on consideration of likelihood (also called by some "frequency") and consequence (also called by some "severity" or "impact"). Recommended actions can be invited to add to or strengthen the existing risk controls to improve the level of risk management.

We also have experience in the establishment of risk management systems that apply to an enterprise, organisation or some part of it. This includes establishment of procedures, policies, risk criteria, risk matrices and risk registers.

We conduct project risk assessments. We have done this with a variety of organisations in differing sectors. Such risk assessments are targeted at identifying a project's goals and aspirations and identifying and assessing the threats to these. Such risk assessments conform to the general requirements of AS NZS ISO 31000-2009 ("Risk Management"). Typically these risk assessments have included meetings and facilitated workshops to allow participants familiar with the project to raise risk issues and discuss the risk controls that the project has to address these. Risk assessment usually involves various methods of qualitative or semi-quantitative determination of a risk rating based on consideration of likelihood (also called by some "frequency") and consequence (also called by some "severity" or "impact"). Recommended actions can be invited to add to or strengthen the existing risk controls to improve the level of risk management.

We provide consulting services in regards to "process safety management", including improvements on how organisations manage safety related to the nature of the chemical or other transformational production processes. In some industries especially involving chemical transformation and storage, the process hazards to personnel and the public can be significant. We have provided advice on the management systems to systematically manage the hazards and risks of chemical processes. Our references on this subject include the various AIChE publications.

We provide consulting services in regards to Major Hazard Facilities (MHFs) and management systems dealing with such facilities. Our references include the NOHSC codes.

We conduct HAZOP studies for clients including all aspects of preparation, facilitation, scribing (minute taking), report preparation and if requested, recommended action tracking and closeout. Our HAZOPs are conducted in accordance with the guidance of AS IEC 61882:2003. Typically we use our own version of PHA Pro 8 (by Dyadem) to record the HAZOP minutes and produce the reports though use of client HAZOP logging software and tools is also possible. HAZOP planning and preparation is essential to success. Prior review of the scope and documentation by Alberfield is necessary to allow a suitable estimated duration of the HAZOP to be established and agreed with the client.

We conduct HAZID (HAZard IDentification) studies for clients including all aspects of preparation, facilitation, scribing (minute taking), report preparation and if requested, recommended action tracking and closeout. HAZIDs are typically focussed at the identification of hazards to health, safety and the environmental that might arise from carrying out an activity. They typically include the steps from AS NZS ISO 31000-2009 of hazard identification and risk assessment (although the latter is not essential). As such a HAZID is a form of technical risk assessment. HAZID planning and preparation is essential to success. Prior review of the scope and documentation by Alberfield is necessary to allow a suitable estimated duration of the HAZID to be established and agreed with the client.

We conduct various types of quantitative risk assessments including consequence modelling of fire and explosion events, fault tree and event tree modelling of events, modelling of likelihood based upon Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA).

We provide a wide range of services related to "Functional Safety" as described in AS/NZS 61508 and AS IEC 61511 (for Functional Safety in the Process Industries).

This includes Safety Integrity Level (SIL) studies to determine target SILs for Safety Functions (using both LOPA and Fault Tree methods), design of Safety Functions and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) including the instrumentation, programmable hardware and software logic, determination of achieved SIL and Proof Test Intervals, Factory and Site testing and commissioning of the Safety Instrumented System.

We also create and manage "Safety Lifecycle" dossiers to contain all relevant documents that arise from the lifecycle of the Safety Function(s).

We conduct training in relation to all of the above "safety & risk" topics. This training has been delivered in a variety of formats and methods including: one-on-one, classroom, seminar, workshops. We can devise and deliver training and training materials to meet your specific requirements.