SIMOPS & HAZID
SIMOPS and HAZID facilitation
Most consultants will write you a risk assessment. The harder part is running the room, and closing what comes out of it.
Fastnet facilitates HAZID, HIRA and SIMOPS workshops for offshore marine operations, holds the register, and follows the actions to closure so that the controls exist before the work starts rather than on the day it is audited.
When we can help
Drilling alongside construction. Diving alongside cargo work. Live production with a vessel inside the 500 metre zone. Heavy lift over an operating facility. A walk-to-work spread on a producing asset.
The trigger is a date, and it is usually closer than it should be.
What facilitation actually means
Fastnet chairs the session. That means preparing the scope and the participant list so the right people are in the room, keeping the discussion on the operation rather than on the paperwork, drawing out the hazards the operators know about but have not written down, and stopping honestly when the answer is that nobody knows.
It also means the register leaves the room complete, with an owner and a date against every action, and that somebody follows those actions to closure. A HAZID whose actions are never closed has achieved nothing except a record that the hazard was identified.
What the assignment can include
- HAZID and HIRA facilitation, and the register that comes out of it
- SIMOPS planning and the simultaneous operations matrix: what may run together, what may not, and who decides
- Bridging documents between the parties, recording whose rules govern what, whose permit system applies, and who holds stop-work authority
- Close proximity and 500 metre zone operations, and the limits at which work stops
- Live production SIMOPS and the interface with the operating asset
- Interface reviews between marine, construction, drilling and production activities
- Action tracking to closure, and verification that the control exists before the operation begins
How we deliver the work
We agree the scope, the operations in question and who needs to be present. Preparation matters more than the session: a workshop with the wrong people in the room produces a document, not a control.
The session is facilitated to a structured method appropriate to the operation. Every hazard is recorded with its cause, its consequence and the control relied on, and every action is assigned with a name and a date before anyone leaves.
Afterwards the register is maintained and the actions are chased until they are closed and verified.
What you receive
- The facilitated register, complete, with owners and dates
- The simultaneous operations matrix and the rules behind it
- The bridging document, agreed between the parties
- The operating limits and the stop criteria
- A closed-out action record, not an open list
What is not included
Fastnet facilitates and records. Fastnet does not approve the operation, does not assume operational command, does not give instructions to the workforce, and does not accept a permit or a method statement on anyone’s behalf. Those decisions stay with the duty holder.
Common questions
Why use an independent facilitator?
Because the person chairing should have no stake in the answer. An internal chair carries the schedule, the budget and the working relationships into the room, and the hazards that get raised are the ones it is comfortable to raise. An outsider can ask the question nobody wants to ask.
Do you write the risk assessment or run the session?
Both, but the session is the point. A register produced at a desk records what somebody could think of. A facilitated session records what the people doing the work actually know.
Can you follow the actions after the workshop?
Yes, and it is worth doing. The value of a HAZID is in the controls being in place on the day, which means somebody has to chase them. We can hold the register through to closure.
Can you work to our risk methodology?
Yes. We work to the client’s matrix and methodology where one is specified, and say so in the record.
Discuss the operation
Tell us what has to run at the same time.
Tell us which operations will run simultaneously, the assets, vessels and parties involved, where and when, the existing risk assessments and bridging arrangements if any, and who needs to be in the room.