Aon Energy Risk Engineering - Safety Case

Understanding Hazards. Managing Risk.

Aon Energy Risk Engineering has proven risk assessment capabilities and the right resources to assist clients in development of Safety Cases for their facilities. Our professional staff has the knowledge, experience, and expertise to assist your organization in effectively and systematically identifying, understanding, and managing risk.

A Safety Case documents facility design and operation, and provides justification that the facility can be operated safely throughout each phase of the facility lifecycle. Development of a Safety Case typically results in more thorough assessment of hazards, improved management of identified risks, and reduction in significant incidents occurring at the facility. Regardless of whether a Safety Case if required by regulation or by internal corporate standards, the primary aim is to demonstrate the following:

An effective Management System is in place to ensure that the facility is in compliance with all applicable health, safety, and environmental requirements
Appropriate arrangements exist for audit and audit reporting
All Major Accident Hazards have been rigorously identified, appropriately assessed, and measures implemented to effectively control the hazards

Aon’s Approach

Our approach is to work closely with the owner/operator to develop required documentation to demonstrate compliance with all applicable regulations and/or internal requirements, including:

Documentation of facility in sufficient detail to support justification of safety
Ensuring Management System demonstrates appropriate control of hazards during each phase of facility lifecycle. Among the principal features of the system are a rigorous process for hazard identification, assessment, and management of hazards, and well as provision for emergency response to all foreseeable events.
Performance of Formal Safety Assessments
Demonstration of continual management of Major Accident Risks
Review of facility for inherently safer design opportunities, documentation of major design choices, and rationale behind risk reduction choices

Formal Safety Assessment

A Safety Case is built around Formal Safety Assessments (FSAs) of those hazards at a facility that may have the most serious consequences. Many identified hazards have complex causal pathways and multiple possible outcomes. Common assessments include: