About Planager

Unlike larger integrated solution providers, Planager specialises exclusively in process safety and risk management. We offer a flexible approach that can scale to meet the needs of both large corporations and small organisations. Our extensive training programmes in HAZOP and HAZAN are particularly well-regarded within the industry.

Planager was established in 2000 and operates from our offices in Sydney, Australia. However, our experience in the risk management field ranges globally from Australia to Europe, North Africa, and North America.

Planager provides highly technical and specialised process safety and risk engineering services, as summarised below:

• Audit and Assurance - Our technical specialists utilise our many years of experience in working closely with our clients in Australia, North America and Europe to provide independent verification of client processes and manufacturing systems to ensure they meet with quality, safety, and regulatory standards. Our audit and assurance services help organisations manage their risks and prevent technical failures before they occur, preventing costly downtime or safety incidents

• HAZOP/HAZID - Our technical specialists are trained and approved / accredited to lead multidisciplinary teams through formal hazard identification studies, including HAZOPs, using systematic deviation analysis techniques

• Project Risk Management - Planager conducts a range of project risk management studies to identify risks to safety and the environment that new facilities or changes to existing facilities may introduce

• Regulatory Approval Studies – Over the last 25 years, Planager has completed several 100 studies across Australia for new facilities to demonstrate that safety, risk and environmental considerations have been implemented to the satisfaction of the public and of the regulators

• Risk and Hazard Assessments – Our staff have conducted several 100 formal risk and hazard assessments for new facilities and changes to plants using both qualitative and quantitative hazard analysis, consequence analysis and risk assessment techniques

• Training and Mentoring – Planager's staff have 30+ years experience in training and mentoring our clients' staff in hazard and risk management techniques including HAZOP and HAZAN

• Technical expertise and excellence

• Honesty and independence

• Adaptability to customer needs

• Transparency and accountability

• Ethical responsibility and trust

Mission

We provide independent, high quality risk engineering consulting services to help clients manage their operational risk and to allow informed decisions to be made in industrial, environmental and infrastructure projects.

Risk management assurance is based on a high level of technical rigour and industry best practices. Planager deploys our expertise across a number of national and international methodologies, standards and frameworks to deliver our technical services. Examples of these are listed below:

• ISO 31000/WHS Regulations - for risk management

• WHS regulations/HIPAP guidelines - for regulatory approval studies

• WHS regulations (Ch 9)/Seveso/COMAH - for Major Hazard Facilities (MHFs)

• HIPAP5 / AS2885 - for periodic hazard audits of potentially hazardous facilities and high pressure pipelines

• AS IEC 61882 /IEC 61882/ HIPAP 8 - for hazard identification and HAZOPs

• IEC 61508/IEC 61511- for Layers Of Protection Analysis and SIL Assessments

• NFPA suite of standards/HIPAP2/FRNSW Codes - for Fire Safety

Planager's deliverables for each project are captured in the project scope document, and reflect the service being provided. Typically, deliverables include one or more documents for internal or regulatory use, and as mandated by consent to operate guidelines and government regulations. Each client engagement will also include an agreed and detailed scope breakdown, timelines, and assumptions. All projects are a team effort – Planager works with our clients to achieve shared goals and outcomes.

Examples of Planager's deliverables include comprehensive audit reports with gap analyses; and risk contour maps with quantitative analysis; to HAZOP reports with action items and emergency response procedures with training programmes. Timeline explanations help our clients understand that simple audits may take weeks whilst complex QRAs and Fire Safety Studies can require months, with factors like facility complexity and regulatory requirements driving scope.

Planager provides services as part of our clients' internal requirements for safety and risk assurance and as part of regulatory approvals for new facilities and for changes to existing facilities. Some of our services are delivered on an ongoing basis to meet regulatory requirements, including annual pipeline management audits (AS2885), 3-yearly Hazard Audits for potentially hazardous facilities (HIPAP5) and 5-yearly revalidation of MHF Safety Cases (WHS regulations (Ch 9)/ Seveso/ COMAH). Other services are delivered based on proactive applications by our clients, including risk assessments for new projects, emergency planning for facility modifications, or process safety training for staff or training updates following incidents.

Qualitative hazard and risk analysis, including HAZOP studies are used to identify hazardous incidents and assess their associated consequences, likelihoods and risks. Semi-quantitative analysis is used, for example as part of Layers Of Analysis (LOPA) studies and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) determination. Fully quantitative risk analysis ('QRA'), including quantitative consequence modelling, likelihood evaluation and risk assessment, may typically be required to demonstrate to regulators and to the public that the risk associated with incidents which may affect people outside of an industrial site's boundary complies with land use planning requirements.

Team composition varies between our services, ranging from multidisciplinary HAZOP teams comprising process engineers, operations staff, safety professionals who are led by Planager's accredited study leader, to Planager's internal risk management professionals for QRAs.

Regulatory compliance demands drive many of our consulting engagements. Our staff maintain accreditation and regularly attend training and conference events to ensure regulatory knowledge stays current. Planager closely tracks and is intimate with evolving process and project safety management guidelines; and with risk management planning interpretations; updated WHS Regulations requirements; and new Australian Standards or Codes (including FRNSW and NFPA guidelines). Because Planager works in a wide range of industries, cross industry knowledge alerts us to new trends and requirements that may have future client impacts. In addition, Planager works closely with the NSW Department of Planning, SafeWork and FRNSW to assist with regulatory approval studies, Major Hazard Facilities safety case development and fire safety approaches for battery energy storage systems.

Our clients commonly operate facilities where significant hazard must be managed effectively. They have two key criteria – permission to operate their facility and the containment of risk to within agreed parameters and boundaries, with zero fatalities or facility boundary violations. To achieve this, our clients work closely with Planager to ensure regulatory compliance, and that best-practice robust process safety is at the core of facility operation. Since Planager started, in 2000, for all our clients, there have been zero significant incidents and zero regulatory breaches which resulted in significant consequences to safety, the environment or reduced facility output.

For our clients, this has led to insurance premium reductions from comprehensive audits and operational incident statistics; faster regulatory approvals for their projects and from thorough safety cases; improved operational efficiency from human factors optimisation; and enhanced client staff capability through participation in our training programmes.

Planager's flexible approach means that we successfully deliver our services to major corporations, government bodies and universities, and to small through medium organisations. Because we operate as a small but well networked organisation we can scale our teams depending on client needs using our own consultants, our associates and our network of specialists located throughout Australia.

Planager typically maintains client relationships and engagement for decades. We consider ourselves an on-demand and trusted outsourced member of your core engineering and safety teams. Through our broad industry exposure, specialised process risk expertise and site-specific knowledge we are able to provide practical ongoing advice and rapid response to our client's requests to help ensure smooth and reliable on-going facility operation.

For most of our services and with many of our Clients, we are the supplier of choice for over 10 years of continuous service. This includes services such as HAZOPs; regulatory approvals; audits; and facility upgrade support. Our familiarity with our client's facility and with agreed operational actions ensures that constant progress and compliance to evolving best practice standards and targets is achieved.

For new clients, our deep industry technical and regulatory experience and expertise helps to ensure that expectations are aligned, and that over time, the trusted bond strengthens. Planager, as a third-party member of our clients' process safety team, will support ongoing action item tracking, periodic revalidation services, regulatory update compliance assessments, refresher training programmes, incident investigation support, and project risk change management.

For most of our services and with many of our Clients, we are the supplier of choice for over 10 years of continuous service. This includes services such as HAZOPs; regulatory approvals; audits; and facility upgrade support. Our familiarity with our client's facility and with agreed operational actions ensures that constant progress and compliance to evolving best practice standards and targets is achieved.

For new clients, our deep industry technical and regulatory experience and expertise helps to ensure that expectations are aligned, and that over time, the trusted bond strengthens. Planager, as a third-party member of our clients' process safety team, will support ongoing action item tracking, periodic revalidation services, regulatory update compliance assessments, refresher training programmes, incident investigation support, and project risk change management.