BakerRisk

At BakerRisk, we don’t just work for you, we work with you as a partner to keep your people and facilities safe. Our team of experienced professionals have a depth of industry knowledge, are skilled in the latest tools and technology, and are driven to provide expertise and solutions to help you manage your risk exposures.  For over 35 years, BakerRisk has provided our clients with cost-effective solutions to manage their hazards and risk, earning their trust and respect. We are especially proud that we have created many long-lasting business relationships with our clients, some spanning decades. Our clients know we will not only meet their needs, but exceed their expectations with sound solutions and advice.

Dust Hazard Analysis

Combustible dust explosions represent a significant hazard that can exist without anyone being aware of the presence of dangerous dust levels. Performing a Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA) can give you peace of mind by fully evaluating the threat to your facility based on compliance with the intent of applicable national codes and standards. More importantly, we can ensure that combustible dust hazards are appropriately identified with a plan in place to support mitigation.

Are you in compliance? BakerRisk participates in industry committees and forums dedicated to proactively identify industry needs and develop innovative approaches to address dust hazards.

Our experts can perform the following services to evaluate your hazards and ensure compliance:

• NFPA 652 Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA): NFPA 652 requires that a DHA be performed for industrial sites using or producing combustible dusts.
• Industry Specific NFPA Standard Compliance Audit: Audit a facility against the prescriptive elements of applicable industry-specific NFPA standard (i.e., NFPA 61, NFPA 484, NFPA 654, NFPA 655, or NFPA 664) and provide consulting advice on the approaches needed to meet the standard’s requirements (i.e., housekeeping, choice and design of dust collection and explosion protection systems, etc.). These audits would normally be performed as part of a DHA.
• Performance-Based DHA: Through performance-based (risk) assessment, determine the necessity of implementing safeguards to meet corporate risk tolerance criteria and provide risk-ranking of compliance gaps to cost effectively maximize risk reduction. BakerRisk employs What-IF/HAZOP/LOPAor other similar approaches developed through our application of established PSM related work practices to provide maximum benefit to our clients.
• Incident Investigation: Assist with gathering complete, accurate, and objective incident data to perform a cause and origin investigation, and provide litigation support as needed. (See our Incident Investigations service pagefor additional details).
• Combustible Dust Explosibility Testing: Facilitate testing of the explosibility characteristics of particulate material and provide recommendations on which combustible dust tests to conduct, how to interpret test results, and what the results mean to the facility owner.

Testimonial from Perth County Ingredients (PCI) President

“PCI values the expertise the BakerRisk consultants brought to the assessment. In addition, their professionalism dealing with PCI and MoL was exemplary. We would not hesitate to use BakerRisk again in the future and would highly recommend their services to others.” – President, Perth County Ingredients

About BakerRisk

What started as our founder, Dr. Wilfred Baker and his wife’s retirement project in San Antonio in 1984, has grown to be a recognized industry leader with 175+ employees and offices in the US, UK, and Canada. With our custom blend of experienced staff, leading-edge research, full-scale testing capabilities, and state-of-the-art software tools, we provide you with the highest quality of technical risk management services available today.

Cutting Edge Research and Development

Since inception, BakerRisk has been proud to be at the leading edge of blast, process safety, and structural impact research. With two large-scale test facilities that we own and operate, plus a combustion and materials lab, we design and oversee customized, cost-effective testing and research to meet your unique challenges. We also sponsor several joint-industry research programs that address hazards and risks ranging from industrial explosions to tool testing failures for the down-hole tool industry. This vast pool of research knowledge and hands-on experience provides BakerRisk staff with a unique set of resources to leverage into our consulting services.

Resources and Learning

We want to do more than just a project for you – we want to be a resource for you as well. Please take a look at our video gallery, request a paper from one of our experts, browse our current news, or see the technical committees that we participate in to learn how we can partner with you to manage your risk exposures.

Contact us to speak to one of our experts about your challenges or concerns.