Published Jul 27, 2026 | Last updated Jul 28, 2026 | Industry
The Norwegian Continental Shelf operates at the frontier of safety management. Hard lessons from the Alexander L. Kielland, Bravo, and Piper Alpha incidents, and the maturation of barrier-based risk management, have made the NCS one of the most systematically safe...
Published Jun 1, 2026 | Last updated Jun 1, 2026 | Barrier Management, Industry, Oil and Gas, Solutions
What is a DFU/DSHA? A Defined Hazard and Accident Situation (DFSHA/DFU) is a specific and observable hazard or accident scenario identified by an operator. It is used as the basis for dimensioning emergency preparedness and designing the associated...
Published Oct 9, 2025 | Last updated Oct 9, 2025 | Barrier Management, Industry, Insights
Background At the end of my two-year master’s in risk analysis at the University of Stavanger, I wrote my thesis on a topic that had interested me for a long time, risk matrices. I first encountered these tools during my Bachelor’s in Safety and...
Published Aug 22, 2025 | Last updated May 29, 2026 | Cyber security, Industry, OpenRisk
With virtually all industries having undergone some form of digitalisation, cybersecurity has become more pertinent than ever. The relevance of cybersecurity is also reflected in Google searches. The search term ‘Risk management’ remained steady over the...
Published Jul 4, 2025 | Last updated May 8, 2026 | Industry, OpenRisk
In the energy sector, the presence of hazardous substances such as toxic gas releases is a reality. Among these, toxic gases such as hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), ammonia (NH₃), or chlorine (Cl₂) pose invisible yet deadly risks to workers, the environment, and surrounding...
