Fire and Explosion Safety

We have extensive experience of helping organisations across a wide range of high-hazard industries managing fire, explosion and process safety risks. Apart from the human cost, a major incident can lead to great expense including loss of production, legal costs and increased insurance premiums, as well as the damage to your business reputation.

We offer safety consultancy services in fire and explosion, process safety and pressure systems (including pressure relief). We combine theory and modelling with results obtained using the large-scale experimental facilities on our 550-acre site.

How can we help?

Carrying out bespoke research
Building tailored facilities to your exact requirements
Helping with your product development
Troubleshooting your general safety issues
Enabling you to introduce new technologies safely and successfully

Our work on safety issues related to emerging technologies, including hydrogen-powered vehicles, and the infrastructure that will be needed has involved all these areas.

Our services include:

Process safety management, including COMAH compliance audits
Analysis of incident, near miss and other key performance indicators to focus safety improvements
Management of ageing assets
Hazardous area classification and management to ATEX and DSEAR regulations
Hazard studies such as HAZID, HAZOP, FMEA and bowtie analysis
QRA, occupied building risk assessment and Layer Of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
Compliance with IEC61508 and 61511, including determination of SIL targets and validation of SILs
Fire and explosion consequence modelling

We offer unrivalled investigation services, borne from decades of experience of investigating accidents throughout the UK. We use our combined expertise in fire and explosion, mechanical engineering and process safety to recreate incidents and investigate potential accident scenarios.

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