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BakerRisk is a process safety and structural risk engineering practice founded in 1984. Operating globally with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Egypt, and Canada, it delivers specialized services including accident investigation, functional and electrical safety analysis, fire protection, consequence and risk modeling, qualitative hazard identification, protective structures design, and full-scale testing. It supports clients across the chemical, petrochemical, oil and gas, defense, and low-carbon energy sectors.
Theresa SanbornHR Manager
Root-cause analysis and technical investigation of industrial accidents and incidents.
Systematic investigation to determine the underlying causes of industrial accidents, failures, and near-misses.
Technical reconstruction of accident sequences to support litigation, regulatory compliance, and loss prevention.
Safety integrity level (SIL) assessments, functional safety lifecycle support, and electrical safety analysis for industrial facilities.
Safety Integrity Level determination and verification studies for instrumented protective systems.
Full lifecycle support for safety instrumented systems from concept through decommissioning.
Electrical hazard evaluation and arc flash studies for process and industrial facilities.
Fire hazard analysis, fire protection design review, and insurance risk assessments for process facilities.
Identification and evaluation of fire hazards for chemical, petrochemical, and industrial facilities.
Engineering review of fire protection systems for adequacy and code compliance.
Risk assessments supporting property insurance programs for process industry clients.
Quantitative risk analyses (QRAs), 3D release detection analyses, dispersion modeling, and facility siting studies.
Probabilistic risk assessments quantifying the likelihood and consequence of hazardous events at process facilities.
Atmospheric dispersion modeling for toxic and flammable releases to support emergency planning and facility siting.
Analysis of occupied building locations relative to process hazards to protect personnel from toxic infiltration, fire, and explosion.
Three-dimensional gas detector placement optimization using release and dispersion modeling.
Process hazard analyses (PHAs), HAZOP studies, and what-if analyses for chemical and process facilities.
Systematic evaluation of process hazards using structured team-based review methodologies.
Hazard and Operability Studies to identify deviations in process design that could lead to safety or operability issues.
Brainstorming-based hazard identification for less complex processes or early-stage design review.
Blast-resistant building design, blast mitigation engineering, and explosives safety analysis for critical facilities.
Structural design of occupied buildings to resist explosion overpressure loads in process and defense environments.
Engineering solutions to reduce blast loading on existing structures through retrofits and barrier design.
Quantity-distance and siting analysis for facilities handling or manufacturing explosive materials.
Full-scale explosive and blast testing at in-house test facilities to characterize hazard effects that computer models cannot replicate.
Live detonation tests at BakerRisk's in-house facilities to measure blast loads, fragment generation, and structural response.
Physical characterization of explosion effects on structures, equipment, and materials to validate analytical models.
Risk assessment and hazard analysis for hydrogen, carbon capture, and other low-carbon energy technologies.
Hazard identification, consequence modeling, and risk assessment for hydrogen production, storage, and distribution facilities.
Risk and hazard studies for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects.
Hands-on, multi-lingual process safety and risk management courses delivered by industry experts at the BakerRisk Learning Center.
Interactive in-person and virtual training courses covering PHA facilitation, QRA methods, and process safety management.
Risk management training and courses delivered in 19 languages to support global client operations.
Chemicals · Petrochemical · Oil & Gas · Defense · Renewable Energy · Carbon Capture · Manufacturing · Insurance
Oil & Gas · Client: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
Conducted comprehensive quantitative risk analyses (QRAs), 3D release detection analyses, and onsite building toxic infiltration and risk studies for HF Alkylation units.
Defense · Client: Federated Ordnance
Provided technical expertise on energetics safety and design for a specialized plant facility.