Risk Engineering Guides

Disaster Preparedness: Disaster recovery and business continuity plan

Designed to help business owners prepare for and cope with the unthinkable

Disaster Preparedness: Bushfire

During the hot, dry months, bushfires start abruptly. Advanced preparation is a must for any responsible business to reduce risk...

Disaster Preparedness: Flood

One of the most common natural disasters. If a business is to minimise risk and reduce business interruption, advanced preparation...

Disaster Preparedness: Tropical cyclone and typhoon

What would a tropical cyclone and typhoon action plan look like? - Helping business owners in areas prone to these...

Disaster Preparedness: Hail

Hail damage can affect any exposed property, especially vehicles, aircraft, roofs and roof-mounted equipment, and can occur with any severe...

Disaster Preparedness: Earthquake

Seismic (shock) waves travel very fast. In an earthquake prone area, what type of advanced preparation must responsible business owners...

Fire protection impairment

Prepare for the risk of impairment to minimise the downtime of fire protection systems during systematic maintenence or repair

Roof systems

Roof systems differ in their vulnerability to the rigours of the weather - a neglected roof is a vulnerable roof

Marine hot work Permit to Work (PTW) systems

Implementing a hot work Permit to Work system can be daunting. Welding, grinding and gas cutting - it's all the...

Marine risk assessment and method statements

Operational safety is of paramount importance for any Marine operation. This guide makes sense of Marine risks to develop a...

Minimising loss in prefabricated steel shipments

Shipment of oversized columns and vessels on ocean carriers

Minimising property hot work fires

A guide to minimising the risk of hot work fires to give management the knowledge to protect their premises and...

Road transportation - loading and securing cargo

A poorly secured load can incur potentially significant financial and human costs through load loss and accidents

Metalworking operations

Every process involved in metal working operations presents potential hazards. The most serious and best documented is that of fire...

Industrial oil cookers

Large containers filled with combustible liquid then heated. Fire hazard? Most definitely. How can these be regularly tested and maintained?