Risk - Safety - Human Factors

Andy Brazier is a risk consultant specialising in human factors and process safety.  He has a chemical engineering degree, PhD and vast consultancy experience.  He has worked as a consultant since 1996 and started his own business in 2005.  AB Risk Limited is Andy Brazier's consulting company. AB Risk has been accepted as a Registered Consultancy by the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (IEHF).

Andy uses his combination of engineering background and consultancy skills to assist companies to manage their risks in a sensible and cost effective way.  He works mainly in hazardous industries including the oil, gas, chemical, power and steel manufacture. With a few projects in other industries including air traffic control, food and drink, financial and waste.

The aim of this website is to show you the wealth of my project experience across various sectors and topics - use the menu at the right of the page to access this.  I have made various resources available including papers and articles, video animations and presentations.  You can find out a bit more about me, both in and outside work.  Also, you can see what interests me on the web via my blog.

Andy Brazier

My path to risk consultancy started at school with A Levels in maths, chemistry and physics.  I went to Loughborough University (including a year in industry working at an oil refinery) where I obtained a degree in chemical engineering (graduated 1990), followed by a PhD at Edinburgh University.  The title of my thesis was ‘Sources of data for use in human factors studies in the process industry.’

I started working as a consultant in 1996.  First for a small human factors consultancy and then for the risk and safety department of a larger company.  In 2005 I decided to go it alone, first as a sole trader, moving on to form AB Risk Limited in 2008.

I believe my combination of academic learning and practical experience; engineering and human factors knowledge makes me particularly able to assess the risks my clients have to manage.  They seem to find my recommendations helpful and effective.  Also, I seem particularly able at engaging with the workers at the 'sharp end' and facilitating multi-discipline workshops.

I am a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (MCIEHF) and Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (AIChemE).  I am a member of the editorial panel for the Loss Prevention Bulletin and regularly review papers for the annual Ergonomics and Human Factors conference.

I have a very long list of past clients that include Shell, BP, Centrica, Scottish and Southern Energy, Flogas, Millennium Chemicals, Tata Steel, Corus, Ensus, Lucite, Ineos, Maersk, Petrofac, Siemens, Huntsman, Veolia, Pfizer, Dragon LNG, Novartis, ConocoPhilips, Dow Corning, Kemira, OMV, Qatar Gas, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Saudi Aramco.

Although most of my clients are based in the UK, I have worked across Europe and the Middle East.  My projects have been deployed from the Arctic circle through to Australia.

Also, I have worked with contractors and consultancies including MMI Engineering, ESR Technology, Human Engineering (Lloyd’s Register), Risktech, Entec, Human Reliability, WS Atkins, Fluor, Costain, Jacobs Engineering, Monaco Engineering Solutions (MES), Tebodin, Worley Parsons, Al Hassan, Wilde Analysis, Larson and Toubro, Wilde Analysis.

I have completed offshore survival training including Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training (BOSIET) and Minimum Industry Safety Training (MIST).  Both valid until 2020