MWS Risk

MWS Risk provides Safety Consultant services, covering industrial fire engineering, functional safety and hazardous area classification, to hazardous industries across Australia. The firm was formed by three industrial risk specialists with a combined career experience exceeding fifty years.

• Directors hold accreditations including Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status, Registered Accredited Fire Safety Engineer status in Queensland (RPEQ), New South Wales (C10) and Victoria (EF), Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the UK Engineering Council, and TUV certification in functional safety.
• One director received the Ray Manser annual award from the Institution of Fire Engineers in 2018 for fire engineering excellence.
• Project experience includes the Wiggins Island Coal Terminal, Koniambo Nickel Refinery and Queensland Nickel Refinery.
• Services span hazardous chemical processing plants, mining and mineral processing, water treatment facilities, marine and port facilities, and public infrastructure, along with risk workshop facilitation covering HAZID, HAZOP, RAMBO, CHAIR, Bowtie, CHAZOP and LOPA.

Best for: operators of hazardous industrial facilities needing accredited fire engineering, functional safety and hazardous area classification expertise for major hazard risk management.

MWS Risk delivers Safety Audits and Risk Assessments across hazardous industrial sites in Australia, drawing on directors’ backgrounds in loss prevention and fire protection engineering.

• The team conducts quantitative and qualitative risk assessments, fire safety audits, hazardous area classification audits and incident investigations for facilities in mining, oil and gas, chemical processing, water treatment and port operations.
• Risk workshops and studies are facilitated using recognised methodologies including HAZID, HAZOP, RAMBO, CHAIR, Bowtie, CHAZOP and LOPA.
• Cybersecurity specialists support identification and treatment of security risks to industrial control systems as part of the risk assessment offering.

Best for: industrial operators requiring independent audit and risk assessment of fire, process safety and control system risks.