Element 05×Engineering
Engineering in Risk
Risk Assessment and Control
What Engineering owns here
This is where Engineering does its most consequential work: identifying, assessing, controlling, accepting and changing technical risk. MoC sits in Element 5 (the IOGP 510 base position) — which keeps technical change anchored to risk control, not documentation.
Example documents, by tier
Standard 6
- Management of Change StandardIn 2 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 12 Management of change and project managementAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityNot safety case critical
- Certified Electrical Equipment: Ignition ControlIn 1 of 3 operator registersAsset · addsAlso in EI PSM · 16 Management of safety critical devicesAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityNot safety case critical
- Major Accident Hazard Management StandardIn 3 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 06 Hazard identification and risk assessmentAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityAlso in Safety Case · Major accident hazards and risk
- Quantitative Risk Assessment StandardIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 06 Hazard identification and risk assessmentAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityAlso in Safety Case · Major accident hazards and risk
- Major Accident Risk Acceptance CriteriaIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 06 Hazard identification and risk assessmentAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityAlso in Safety Case · Major accident hazards and risk
- Bowtie StandardIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 06 Hazard identification and risk assessmentAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityAlso in Safety Case · Major accident hazards and risk
Process, procedure, work instruction 7
- Change Management ProcedureIn 2 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 12 Management of change and project managementAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityNot safety case critical
- Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment ProcedureIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 06 Hazard identification and risk assessmentAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityNot safety case critical
- Operational Risk Assessment ProcedureIn 3 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 06 Hazard identification and risk assessmentAlso in Process Safety · Operating integrityNot safety case critical
- Dynamic Positioning Systems Risk Assessment ProcedureTypical exampleCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 06 Hazard identification and risk assessmentAlso in Process Safety · Operating integrityNot safety case critical
- HAZID ProcedureIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 06 Hazard identification and risk assessmentAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityNot safety case critical
- Fire and Gas Detection PhilosophyTypical exampleRegion · addsAlso in EI PSM · 16 Management of safety critical devicesAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityAlso in Safety Case · Safety and environmental critical elements
- Formal Safety Assessment ProcedureIn 2 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 06 Hazard identification and risk assessmentAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityAlso in Safety Case · Major accident hazards and risk
Supporting documents 1
- HAZOP Report TemplateIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 06 Hazard identification and risk assessmentAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityNot safety case critical
Guidance · outside the system 1
Informative, not a “shall”. These belong in the knowledge base, not the management system. How this works →
- Alarm System GuidelineIn 1 of 3 operator registersCompany-wideAlso in EI PSM · 16 Management of safety critical devicesAlso in Process Safety · Design integrityNot safety case critical
Why these belong here
"This is where Engineering becomes a risk control function, not a drawing factory. If MoC is treated as paperwork, the company has no real control over its own technical risk."
What does not live here
- →The standards used to set acceptance thresholds — those areE02 Policies
- →The design that implements the risk-controlled decision — that goes inE06 Integrity
- →The procedures that execute the risk control in the field — those areE07 Procedures
- →The verification that the risk control is working — that'sE10 Assurance