NUKEM Safety Case & Risk Analysis

Safety Case Preparation & Risk Analysis

NUKEM has been involved in the preparation of Safety Cases for over 30 years and was involved in much of the pioneering work that developed the methods and good practices in use today. As a consequence, we have a wide experience of preparing and reviewing safety cases across most industries, including:

Nuclear Decommissioning
Site licensing (NII).
Nuclear facility and plant.
Non-nuclear industry: explosives, oil and gas companies and within the transport industry.

In addition to its experienced UK team the Company can access a vast body of expertise from across the NUKEM Group. By drawing upon our expertise in safety and risk assessment, licensing requirements and nuclear assessment methodologies and techniques (such as criticality, shielding and nuclear inventory assessment) we can produce safety documentation to satisfy the requirements of the regulatory authorities or company policy as appropriate. Safety justification documentation can be produced for the full range of plant states as illustrated below:

We provide:

Hazard Identification techniques using measures such as HAZOP studies, FMEA and hazard checklists
Management and production of full safety cases and staged safety reports, including the preparation of hazard analysis reports.
Probabilistic Safety Assessment techniques such as Fault Tree/Event tree analysis.
Full understanding of major nuclear assessment methodologies.
Understanding of MoD explosives and COMAH regulations.
Independent Peer Review
Development and delivery of safety training courses.
Understanding of Safety management requirements under a Licensed Site regime.
Multidiscipline teams of engineers
Scientific operators and safety specialists

Benefits

As a nuclear facility designer, contractor and operator, NUKEM brings the benefit of practical experience to its safety work.

Detailed experience in meeting regulatory and customer requirements ensures cost effective and timely provision of safety documentation

Client Feedback

There is no better way of illustrating the Company’s expertise than through customer feedback:

From BNFL re B204 Safety Case – Your co-operation and commitment at such short notice was greatly appreciated. Due to combined efforts of yourself and your colleagues the expeditious production of the above [B204 Safety Case] has enabled the B204 Decommissioning Project to recommence with minimal disruption.

From AWE – re Safety Case support activities to NII licensing - performance was very good and we were totally satisfied with the product and their contribution to the project. Your experience in the field and understanding of the issues was invaluable.

From UKAEA re Winfrith Operations Maintenance and Decommissioning project safety documents - a number of safety documents have been written and these have been recognised particularly by the Safety Working Party to be of a high standard. The interaction between authors, designers, operators, peer reviewers and the UKAEA project management team has been managed professionally with a keen motivation to deliver quality to time.

From the National Technology Centre, Kazakhstan - writing to express our gratitude for the highly professional work carried out by your experts in compiling, reviewing and editing the BN-350 Decommissioning Plan for International Peer Review.

From UKAEA re Peer Review of Decommissioning Safety Case - Thank you for your input and support over the duration of the safety case peer review. Thank you for your comments regarding the management of the safety case and the extensive guidance you felt necessary to provide to maintain progress in documentation review.