About Us
RISK Core Values Team Leadership
At RISK, Inc. our mission is to meet our customer’s expectations with the highest integrity, through our professional and personal conduct; where we educate and assist them in the development, deployment and maintenance of their process safety programs. We strive to help all our customers find innovative solutions that reduce risk and improve the overall safety and reliability of their operation.
RISK Core Values
The RISK logo exemplifies our core values & the disappearing dots in the logo represent that as knowledge increases, risk decreases.
Risk
We are solution driven and quality focused to reduce risk.
Integrity
We operate with integrity in our professional and personal conduct.
Safety
We assist others in their pursuit of safe and reliable operations.
Knowledge
We are in a constant state of improvement and learning and seek to share that knowledge with others.
Team
RISK’s team of consultants have broad experience in process safety and risk management. Each brings unique experience to contribute – from running a nuclear submarine to working in the engineering industry – which builds a balanced team that can think outside the box for creative solutions.
Our facilitators have experience utilizing various methodologies including Hazards and Operability (HAZOP), Structured What-If (SWIFT), Checklist, BowTie and LOPA techniques. Their work includes both onshore studies for facilities in the refining, petrochemical, chemical and pharmaceutical industries and offshore assets such as Gulf of Mexico FPS, and LNG terminals. Their experience with project PHA studies, from HAZID level to detailed design stage level reviews, has earned accolades from project teams.
Our team’s experience also includes:
- Auditing
- MOC Programs
- Incident Investigation
- Inherently Safer Design (ISD) Practice
- Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA)
- SEMS Compliance
- Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA)
- Consequence Modeling
- Facility Siting
- Training
Team Strengths
Unlike many consulting services firms that operate on a silo model, we work as an integrated team to support each other in providing the highest quality work product to our clients. We have worked with our Gallup-Certified Strengths coach Barbara Stewart to identity our team strengths during our annual company meetings to build the best team to serve our clients.
We identified that our top team strengths naturally align to support our mission and values. Those strengths are summarized as:
| Our Strength | As a team we bring | As a team we are motivated by |
|---|---|---|
| Strategic | Creative anticipation, imagination & persistence | Seeing a way then others assume there is no way |
| Responsibility | Dependability and loyalty | Respect of others |
| Restorative | Courage and creativity to problematic situations | Finding solutions to problems that must be solved |
| Learner | A learning perspective | New information and experiences to perform on the cutting edge |
| Relator | Social depth and transparency | Close mutual relationships built from one-one interactions |
Leadership
René Murata
Founder & CEO
Ms. Murata is an experienced hazard and risk assessment consultant providing technical expertise in process safety and risk management, petroleum, environmental and electrical engineering. Ms. Murata has provided training, safety and operations guidance to onshore facilities in China, and throughout the United States. This work includes extensive experience in process safety, process hazard analyses, development of Management of Change (MOC) and Inherently Safer Systems (ISS/IST) programs, and strategic implementation plans for environmental compliance. She has experience leading PHA studies using the hazard and operability (HAZOP) and What-If/Checklist analysis techniques. She holds a BA in Applied Physics, BS in Applied Mathematics and certifications in LOPA, SIS and SIL identification and calculations. She is Chevron RiskMan2 and Chevron PHA, SOA/SSFA Certified. She has developed and led training for process safety and environmental compliance for varying levels of corporate organizations in a variety of disciplines. In addition, she has an extensive background in project management, including scheduling, budgeting and licensing.
Janet Benaquisto
Marketing Director
Ms. Benaquisto has over twenty years of experience with firms specializing in process safety and risk management consulting services. She has an excellent understanding of OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM), EPA Risk Management Program (RMP), California Accidental Release Prevention Program (CalARP), and Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) regulations. She has scribed for PHAs, developed PSM program documentation and co-authored a hazardous materials section of SF Bay Area Regional Emergency Response Plan Procedures documentation project. Her background enables her to understand customer needs and discuss project parameters directly with client site contacts.