Understanding and facilitating the effective management of risk is our core business. The key to the successful identification, assessment and management of risk is engagement with the right people, using the right processes at the right time.
RAS can support in this by offering a full range of process and technical safety support at all stages of a plant’s lifecycle.
We build proportional risk management solutions which integrate into your process safety requirements, keeping your people and your business safe. Whether you need a simple HAZOP or the development of complex risk modelling for a major COMAH site Safety Report, we have some of the best experts in the country to work with you to give you real clarity and insight into complex risk challenges. The full range of our services are set out below.
Our knowledge and experience span the full spectrum of hazard identification techniques, and we will design a study to suit the particular needs of your project, selecting the right tools at the right time to produce valuable outputs.
Whether you are looking for the full range of hazard studies from HS1 through to HS5, a standalone HAZID or a longer term HAZOP revalidation process, we can find the right approach for your bespoke needs.
We make sense of risk. We partner with you to ensure safety, compliance and resilience in complex high hazard operations, whatever business you’re in.
We have the deep understanding and knowledge to work from first principles, ensuring inherently safe design from the outset where possible. We have a full range of services which can be tailored to your needs.
The ultimate goal of our work is to minimise the impact of the inherent hazards associated with the high-hazard sectors upon our planet. We must protect the world around us, and we support our clients in preventing environmental harm in line with industry good practice.
Our expert knowledge covers a range of techniques to evaluate and minimise the environmental risk posed by your substances and processes.
Awareness, understanding and effective management of human factors is crucial to manage Major Accident Hazard risks. Factors related to the job, environment and organisation, as well as an individual’s characteristics, may influence human behaviour.
RAS can help you to identify and address human factors issues and ensure you comply with the latest industry guidance. We provide support and advice in all core areas of human factors including managing human performance and risk assessment, process design, COMAH-critical communications, procedure management and design, management of competence and training, and managing organisational factors.
A key area of our expertise is compliance with the requirements of the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations 2015. We specialise in helping our clients understand and manage complex risk. Only once your hazards are properly understood, can they be managed.
Since our formation in 1993, we have supported well over eighty UK Upper and Lower Tier COMAH establishments across the energy, pharmaceutical and specialist chemical sectors. RAS can support you with all aspects of COMAH, from performing consequence modelling and standalone risk assessments through to full coordination of COMAH Safety Report preparation.
For new projects and developments, we can provide expert process safety to manage the hazards and minimise risk.
From the initial design stages, we can support you to ensure that your new plant is inherently safer. Our support continues as the project develops through construction, commission and onto operations to minimise the major accident hazard risk.
For industrial processes involving hazardous materials, we can advise you on all of the legislative requirements for your new facility.
Knowing what to do in an emergency is critical to optimising the response and minimising the risk posed to people and the environment.
We are specialists in working with sites to develop effective response strategies to manage releases of hazardous substances.
An effective management system is essential to provide a structured framework to oversee the hazards identified and prevent significant incidents. For the high hazard industries, getting it right is good for business.
We provide essential support in the development, implementation and improvement of effective and efficient Management Systems to ensure the hazards at your site are appropriately managed at every life cycle stage.
