Introducing RS Process Safety

RS Process Safety is a process safety consultancy recently set up by Richard Smyllie who has over thirty five years experience in the process industries. He has previously worked for Amec and its predecessors Entec and Cremer and Warner. His knowledge and experience in process safety came from his extensive involvement with the Piper Alpha Disaster Public Enquiry (over twenty five years ago) and the ensuing litigation.

Over these years he has been entrusted by several high profile clients with undertaking a variety of types of risk assessment on some of the largest process engineering projects around the world.

The majority of Richard’s work can be summarised as enhancing the safety of large projects which have strategic importance not only to individual clients and companies but also to countries. This can usefully be given the term Strategic Asset Risk Assessment (SARA). In short a major accident or incident involving some of these assets would have a disastrous impact on a company’s reputation and finances or even those of individual countries. An event that shuts down a process for only a few days could have multi million pound implications and if allowed to extend for a long duration could impact on a company’s share price or even a country’s GDP.

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