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Systems Safety Management & Assurance

Safety Matters

Systems Safety Management and Assurance encapsulates risk management from a people perspective. As infrastructure assets become more varied and complex, and consequences of accidents can be enormous, it is necessary for organisations to build upon existing levels of safety, lessons learnt from industry and best practise, and strive to ensure that safety is continuously and successfully improved and managed.

Safety applies throughout the life of a project from initial concept to final disposal. Applying best practise through design and operation integrated with Safety Management ensures that even the fast pace of technological change can be managed throughout the full project life-cycle.

Application of Systems Assurance

apm specialises in the Transport, Oil & Gas and Defence industries, supporting our clients through planning and assessment, with the application of a range of tools, as shown below. Our projects range from safety strategy planning, hazard assessments, and safety case management of complete systems or complete projects to enable safe operational improvements, demonstrate cost effective safety management and Peer Reviews.

Our experience has been demonstrated in the application of a comprehensive selection of planning, assessment, audit exercises, including the use of industry best practise tools and standards.

Planning and Assessment:

  • Safety Policy & Strategy Planning
  • Safety Management Planning
  • Requirements Management
  • Systems Integration & Interface Management
  • Independent Safety Assessments
  • System Safety Audits
  • Safety Risk Management
  • Emergency / Crisis Planning

Tools:

  • Systematic Hazard Identification and analysis (including HAZOP, HAZID, HAZAN and Structured What If studies)
  • Safety Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
  • Fault and Event Tree Analysis
  • Monte Carlo Simulation
  • Safety Case strategy, methods, planning and production
  • Probabilistic Safety Assessments or Quantitative Risk Assessments

Standards:

apm has experience in the implemetation of EN50126, EN50128 & EN50129 and other international best practices and standards.