Explosion Risk Intelligence
Continuous. Evidence based. Trusted.
Every few days, a preventable industrial explosion changes lives.
EXPAS exists to stop the next one.
Using data, evidence, control and assurance, we help improve explosion risk.
A common language for explosion risk
Moving beyond periodic assessments and static compliance documents, EXPAS creates a consistent and transparent view of risk across sites, assets and portfolios.
<4% of incidents.
~40% of losses.
A small number of explosion events drive the majority of industrial loss.
0 structured pre-loss signals in use today
Operational safety evidence is not translated into continuous underwriting intelligence.
57% of explosions are management system failures
Losses emerge through degraded controls, not just equipment failure.
~70% of risk recommendations target operational execution
The dominant risk is operational performance, not asset integrity.
See risk as it behaves
Risk does not remain static
At EXPAS, we read risk as it moves – through maintenance activity, operational decisions, equipment condition, organisational behaviour and management control.
Where others see a snapshot, EXPAS captures the signals that show how control is holding or slipping between assessments and converts them into a living view of risk behaviour.
The result is earlier visibility of emerging exposure and greater confidence in every decision.
The translation layer between site reality and underwriting risk
EXPAS draws on more than 300 operational safety indicators to create a severity weighted, evidence based view of explosion risk.
Risk does not fail suddenly. It drifts.
Major losses rarely emerge from a single failure. They develop through gaps in controls, behaviours, competence and governance.
By detecting that drift, EXPAS creates a live risk fingerprint for every site, providing continuous assurance and a shared view of risk that operators and insurers can act on with confidence.
57%
of barrier failures in major hydrocarbon losses are management system failures, not hardware failures.
Where loss really begins
Most explosion losses do not begin with a single failure.
They develop through gradual deterioration in operational control, maintenance, unmanaged change and weakening safety systems over time.
These signals are visible in operational records, but not in traditional underwriting or management tools.
EXPAS structures those signals into a continuous view of risk before they become loss events.
One continuous risk picture.
Every output is explainable and fully traceable to the underlying operational evidence.
One continuous risk picture.
Every output is explainable and fully traceable to the underlying operational evidence.
Ignition Exposure
Visibility of the conditions that raise the likelihood of an ignition event - drawn from hazard inventory, atmosphere control and the strength of ignition prevention barriers.
Control Fragility
Where critical prevention and protection barriers are weakening - graded by control confidence against each barrier's minimum threshold, evidence quality and decay over time.
Escalation Potential
How an incident could propagate across assets and operations - traced along the loss pathway from initiation through deflagration, structural failure and impact.
Risk Trajectory
Whether risk is improving, deteriorating or holding steady - read from behavioural drift, control recovery and changes in site conditions between assessments.
One continuous risk picture.
Every output is explainable and fully traceable to the underlying operational evidence.
EXPAS does what adjacent tools cannot
Evidence grade.
Traceable. Defensible.
Built for operators, insurers and reinsurers responsible for hazardous industrial risk.
Designed to support underwriting decisions, portfolio reviews and insured engagement through transparent, evidence based assurance.
Why insurers
are interested
Explosion risk remains one of the most severe and least observable industrial risks.
EXPAS provides a view of risk between engineering surveys, helping insurers understand control performance, identify deteriorating risks earlier, improve risk selection, support engineering reviews, create greater transparency with insureds and establish a common language for risk.
Who we
serve
Operators.
Improve visibility of explosion risk across assets and sites.
Insurers.
Gain a more transparent understanding of industrial risk.
Reinsurers.
Understand accumulation and control quality.