Business profile
Abbott Risk Consulting has established a strong international reputation for safety, engineering and risk management
he company is proud of its track record of providing tailored and pragmatic solutions to help clients identify and manage the risks that they face in order to enhance the performance of their businesses.
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Established in 2002, ARC has grown to become a successful consultancy with a loyal customer base. More than 80 per cent of its work is with existing clients and it has established long-term framework agreements with many of them. Today, the company has an extensive pool of highly qualified and experienced safety engineering and risk management consultants who support both private and public sector clients in the transportation, nuclear power, defence and oil and gas sectors.
Its rail team has delivered high profile projects in the United Arab Emirates, Australia and Europe.
ARC attributes its growth to the enthusiasm, flexibility and commitment of its people to delivering quality solutions to time and budget. The company was placed in The Sunday Times 100 best small companies to work for, in the top 20, and as the top- placed engineering consultancy, in 2011, 2012 and 2013, achieving the top 3 star accreditation.
Safety management and assurance All changes involve risk, particularly when introducing new and novel technologies and systems. ARC helps ensure the safety of changes by establishing appropriate safety management frameworks and processes, based on international standards and good practice, and through the rigorous identification and management of hazards.
The company’s experience covers the whole lifecycle, from safety planning through developing safety cases to system acceptance.
ARC recently completed a project in
the United Arab Emirates, having been appointed with US partner Good Harbor Consulting (GHC) to assist Etihad Rail in developing an integrated safety and security management system (SSMS) and to provide safety, security and risk services in support of the first phase of a planned 1,500km network of integrated railway across the UAE.
Some of the unusual issues faced by the project included integrating US and Chinese designs with European technology, crossing major pipelines, and protecting racing camels, which can be worth up to $13 million.
Drawing on its experience of good practice worldwide, ARC has:
• established a regulatory framework for the safety of the railway, setting out the requirements and benchmarking the required safety performance for the new railway
• developed an integrated safety and security management system for Etihad Rail, defining the key processes and procedures for the management of safety and the acceptance of the railway systems
• prepared the preliminary safety case for the first stage of the railway so that the tendering could proceed.
Performance improvement
Improving an organisation’s performance and effectiveness also involves change. ARC works closely with its clients to deliver effective changes, by providing specialist skills, advice and support to embed new processes.
The company has been working with Dockland Light Railway (DLR) over the past four years and in the build up to the 2012 London Olympic games, supported DLR on a series of initiatives for improving its management of safety, risk and operational performance. ARC also worked closely with DLR to develop a novel safety performance index (SPI) for assessing and monitoring the effectiveness of safety management
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