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NovaPath Risk & Safety
Risk and safety support for energy operators, industrial-gas and chemical businesses, field-service companies, and diversified enterprises.
Some clients bring us in for an investigation or a critical-control program. Others want help developing their HSE strategy, standards, or crisis arrangements. We work with the people responsible for that work, from deciding what needs to change through building and putting it into use.
Our practices / Who we work with
Start with the work your team is responsible for. The support follows from there.
For teams responsible for offshore wells and production operations. Support for management systems, contractor interfaces, investigations, and assurance, informed by experience leading HSE inside offshore operations.
Explore the practice PRACTICE / 02For land-based operators developing their risk and safety programs. Work alongside an established internal team on a particular discipline, or provide broader program support where the operator needs it.
Explore the practice PRACTICE / 03For teams responsible for industrial-gas production and distribution, chemical plants, and petrochemical operations. Support with investigations, assurance, and risk and HSE programs across those operations.
Explore the practice PRACTICE / 04For businesses whose crews work in a client's operation. Program support that considers both the contractor's responsibilities and the requirements and interfaces of the work it delivers.
Explore the practice PRACTICE / 05For HSE leaders supporting multiple businesses, brands, and operating environments. Help developing the corporate program and working out how it applies across those operations.
Explore the practiceAlready know the support you need?
You do not need to choose a practice to access an investigation, an assurance review, or program support.
Explore capabilitiesSelected work / NovaPath client engagements
Support across particular disciplines and whole programs. Explore our offshore case study and selected examples of the work we delivered.
Helped the client's team build its Bowtie and critical-control program, including control verification. Support included Bowtie and critical-control training, Bowtie-based investigation training, and advanced Bowtie training.
Explore the practiceSupported HSE strategy development and built the client's crisis and incident-management system from the ground up, including incident-management teams and crisis-management training. Built serious injury and fatality (SIF) programs, conducted SIF assessments, and developed learning and leadership programs. Developed risk and HSE content standards and supported investigations.
Explore the practiceProvided incident-investigation and assurance support, alongside development of HSE leadership content and programs.
Explore the practiceProvided whole-program risk and safety support rather than support limited to one technical discipline.
Explore the practiceImplemented COS good practices through leadership field engagement and learning from normal work, barrier assessments and control-effectiveness testing, IOGP procedure-writing guidance, and risk-based offshore contractor alignment.
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Operator experience / Practical implementation
Our team comes from operators. We understand how to navigate that world—from management-system integration and field engagement to contractor management. We bring practical experience implementing COS good practices and SEMS, and know what it takes to turn program requirements into workable practices in the field.
03 / How we work
A client may want experienced judgment on a particular problem, help developing a program, or people to carry part of the improvement work. We agree on what involvement is useful rather than assume every engagement needs the same approach.
Most teams still have to run the current program while improving it. Where capacity is the constraint, we help carry the agreed work—not just leave another recommendation for the team to implement.
The Nova Path WayCapabilities / The work behind our practices
Risk Services and Safety Services remain distinct, connected disciplines. Select the support around your priorities—not a fixed package.
Process safety, Barrier Intelligence, investigations, risk reviews, business continuity, crisis management, and resilience.
Know the controls. Test their effectiveness. Program support, field leadership, investigation learning, capability building, and experienced personnel.
Capability & craft
Eight working sessions for technical safety professionals moving into corporate, regional, and leadership roles.
Technical publishingYour expertise, shaped by practitioners and delivered as branded standards, playbooks, and tools people can use.
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Tell us what you want to change and where support might be useful.