At Westley Lansdowne, we understand how much safety management approaches need differ between businesses and that 'not one size fits all'. We know that safety doesn't ever really feel 'easy' to do properly but is really important (lest we risk failing to manage hazards and potential prosecution) - thus must be done right. We totally understand how easy it is to get lost in the subject to the point of confusion and aim to navigate our clients through this confusion in the most appropriate way possible.
We fully 'get' the importance of making adequate, sensible and proportionate safety management arrangements within your business, but revel in the task of making safety arrangements easy to use and maintain.
Our Approach
The former is usually the classic ‘high-integrity’ industries – Nuclear, Aerospace, Automotive, Rail, Marine, Defence, Process industries, Oil and Gas for a start – and these often know roughly what they want sufficient to allow competent providers like ourselves to be instructed at the earliest convenience to align with the programme.
The latter however encompasses a slighter wider variety of dutyholders within other industries who often become aware of the need to engage in safety engineering activities as a result of the compliance requirements involved with a new facility being developed or a significant site / process change. Another favourite participant within this group is smaller firms supplying into ‘high-integrity’ industries – particularly Nuclear, Rail and Defence – where these firms are not used to developing equipment / services to the norms of these industries.
The general advice is, if you think you might need our help, give us a call – we’re happy to discuss your issues and help you solve them if we can.
Safety Engineers support the design, development and certification of complex systems.
Safety Engineers analyse concept and/or detailed designs and provide advice on the design and operation of equipment, systems or processes where the law requires specific standards to be met – be these probabilistic, prescribed measures or goal-set criteria such as the ‘So Far As Reasonably Practicable’ principle within UK law.
Safety Engineering is often focussed around maximising a design’s availability and tolerance to failure against a specified cost / delivery time constraint; often utilising defined standards to do this (such as BS EN 61508).
We have practitioners with experience in the Nuclear, Aerospace, Automotive, Rail, Process and Defence industries on staff. The sorts of activities we have previously supported include:
- Specification and Development of Safety Instrumented Systems
- Safety Case / Reliability Performance Justification Authoring
- Failure Reporting, Corrective Action and Monitoring System Management
- Production and Review / Approval of Safety Documentation
- Review of 3rd party documentation
- Safety Process Development, Deployment and Improvement
Programme Management:
- High level safety strategy development
- Scheduling / Programme Management of safety activities to deliver safety strategy
- Programme Monitoring and Control
Safety Analysis Methods:
- Hazard Identification
- Hazard Assessment – Deterministic Methods such as HAZOP
- Hazard Assessment – Probabilistic for High Consequence Hazards
- Hazard Assessment – Deterministic for Low Consequence Hazards
- Safety Integrity Level Targeting
- Safety Integrity Level Verification
Reliability Analysis Methods:
- Weibull Analysis
- Reliability Block Diagram development
Reliability Growth:
- Highly Accelerated Test Planning and Deployment
We can help fulfil your requirements in whatever way best suits your requirements – we can provide staff on a full-time, part-time basis or based on an agreed, costed statement of work – for a specific item of work or for more generalised support within a wider programme.
Engaging with Westley Lansdowne
An engagement would begin with a discussion – we need to know what you want, ideally how or why you think we can help (occasionally needs in the field can be quite niche and outside of our experience – like Consequence Modelling) – from which we can develop a statement of requirements and a basis for quotation against.
Note that we do not entertain Inside IR35 work at present, nor Outside IR35 based on thinly veiled contracts – all of our contracts are independently reviewed for compliance against IR35 where appropriate.
Interested in our services? We’re here to help!
We want to know your needs exactly so that we can provide the perfect solution. Let us know what you want and we’ll do our best to help.
