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  Operational safety is the discipline of preventing harm to people, the environment, assets, and reputation during day-to-day operations. In high-hazard industries, such as oil and gas , chemicals, pharmaceuticals, mining, and power, this discipline depends on more than good intentions or compliance checklists. It relies on structured safety reviews, formal, evidence-based examinations of hazards, barriers, and management systems that verify whether operations are being conducted within an acceptable risk envelope. When done well, safety reviews connect engineering reality to frontline practice, ensuring that controls remain effective as equipment ages, processes drift, and organisations change. Safety reviews exist because real operations are dynamic. Process conditions fluctuate, staffing changes, temporary repairs become “permanent,” and new feedstocks or production targets create latent risk. A robust review program is therefore a cornerstone of process safety management, pr...