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Risk Engineering Consulting

We provide technical risk management and engineering assistance, ensuring your Site benefits from both local insights and global best practices.

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Deep Industry Expertise

Our team, enriched with over 1000 years of cumulative hands on petro chemical industry experience, is adept at delivering precise safety culture, technical & leadership assessments, ensuring Site’s operational optimisation.

Global Insights for your Site

Leveraging insights from over 1800+ global assets operated by 525+ clients, we’re poised to benchmark and elevate your Site’s operational efficiency and safety to worldclass standards.

Customised Assessments

We offer bespoke assessments, meticulously tailored to explore and enhance the specific dynamics of your current process safety culture.

Team’s Reach and Expertise

Our expansive team of over 45 engineers in IMEA, strategically positioned across regional hubs ensure global insights and localised solutions for your unique operational landscape and challenges. This diverse and experienced team is ready to bring a wealth of knowledge, skills and insights from every part of the oil and gas supply chain.

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Risk Engineering Resources

5 Hubs in the Region

  • Dubai 
  • Abu Dhabi 
  • KSA
  • India 
  • South Africa 

Engineering Analytics Team

Our team of data analysts have access to 20 years of survey data, from 525+ clients and 1800+ global assets.

45+ Risk Engineers

A highly experienced and qualified team with nearly 1000 years of cumulative experience in the petrochemical industry.

Our Brokerage Experience

We possess a unique blend of deep technical knowledge layered with a risk management and mitigation expertise.

Our solutions

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  • Safety Culture Academy
    A thorough assessment of your Site's current safety protocols. Providing an unbiased opinion to focus on identifying gaps and improvement opportunities.
  • Management System Assessment
    An External Operations Integrity systems audit is performed testing all aspects of the business for documented processes.
  • Deep Dive’s – IDD, ODD, PHA, MDD, Commissioning
    Compare risk engineering performance against industry peers and provide valuable insights into strengths and areas for improvement. Deep Dives are focused on their specialty – Maintenance, Inspection, PHA, Operations.
  • Digital Manufacturing
    The ability to equip operators with live plant data, enabling swift ecision-making and process optimisation in the field.
  • Benchmarking and Studies
    Global Exposure, Risk and Loss Database (GERALD) is Marsh’s database that includes 3,000 surveys, going back to 2004. Our benchmarking empowers clients to proactively strategise, ensuring they can remain competitive and agile in the industry.
  • Tailored Support
    Understanding your Site’s specific challenges, Marsh crafts risk management strategies that align with your objectives, ensuring safety while optimising operations. Our solutions are not one-size-fits-all. They are meticulously crafted to align with your specific needs and challenges.
  • Operational Excellence Program
    Operational Excellence is a strategic management philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement for processes and systems within an organisation. The goal is to achieve superior performance in fundamental principles including safety, quality, efficiency, reliability. View more
  • Targeted Staffing Assessment
    Strategically adapt your Site workforce for an efficient transition. We can examine the operational demands during determining the precise staffing needs to maintain operational integrity and site profitability. View more
  • Shift Handover improvements / digitalization
    A high-quality shift handover involves more than just passing on data; it requires a thorough understanding of the current operational status. By integrating structured protocols, leveraging technology, and fostering strong leadership, organisations can significantly reduce the risks associated with poor shift handover.
  • Turnaround Consultancy services
    Marsh Risk Engineering Consultancy brings together a team of seasoned professionals with extensive experience in planning and leading turnarounds for large multinational organisations. Our turnaround gap assessment methodology is built on the cumulative knowledge of our experts, who have successfully executed turnarounds across various industries. View more
  • Risk Base Work Selection
    Risk Based Work Selection (RBWS) is a systematic, logical work process that prioritises and optimises turnaround and maintenance work without sacrificing reliability.
  • Fire Protection Assessment
    Focusing on fire suppression, protection & radiant heat.
  • Business Continuity Planning
    Our team is comprised of individuals from across the Marsh McLennan network providing hands on value towards strategic, operational, people and reputational challenges you face.
  • Single Point of Failure
    Pinpointing critical equipment, processes, or systems that, if failed, could cause significant operational disruptions.
  • Cyber Risk Assessment and Quantification
    Cyber Deep Dive – OT Health Check and Risk Quantification. We have delivered various OT engagements globally ranging from maturity, compliance and gap assessments, penetration testing and ethical hacking for OT, as well as OT cyber transformations.
  • Climate Resilience & NAT Cat Modelling
    Our framework guides clients through a process of identifying climate risk, impact and loss, then plan and implement adaptation measures that will mitigate the identified risk.
  • Managing Grid Failure Risks
    Having clear, actionable plans in place before a severe disruptive event occurs, such as an electrical grid failure/collapse, pandemic or large-scale looting activities, can help your organisation minimise damage to people and property and recover as quickly as possible.
  • Project / Construction Risk Management
    Project Stages covered include Feasibility Study, Engineering & Design, Procurement, Site Preparation, Construction, Commissioning & Start Up, Operations & Maintenance.

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This report reflects on the last two years and provides insight to energy industry professionals on the range of losses that can occur, the diversity of potential root causes, and the risk management and mitigation practices that can improve operations.

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Our people

David Causi

Consulting and analytics risk engineering leader, MEA