SAFETY IN ENGINEERING FEATURE
COMPETENCE KEY TO SAFETY SOLUTIONS,
SAYS ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY A
n engineering consultancy is urging businesses working in hazardous
environments to challenge the credentials of companies offering functional safety solutions, for added peace of mind that the measures being proposed, and the personnel advising on them, are fit for purpose. London-based Engineering Safety
Consultants (ESC) works in upstream/ downstream oil and gas as well as power, process chemical, military and bio- containment facilities, playing a crucial role in not only supplying solutions and consultancy to protect operations in the manufacturing and processing sectors, but also helping to set international safety standards. The company recently joined a very
select few organisations to complete an audit by UKAS-accredited body Sira Certification Service, achieving certification in both IEC 61508 and IEC 61511: functional safety standards that managing director, Simon Burwood, says makes ESC stand out from its competitors. Burwood explains: “We encourage
company colleagues, sit on the International IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 Maintenance Committees. Ensuring that safety standards are
customers to challenge our engineering expertise and question how we are qualified to verify somebody else’s work. ESC is now among a small handful of functional safety service providers to be independently certified by Sira, which underpins our whole attitude towards safety and gives customers confidence in the services that we offer.” In addition to their ‘day job’, managing
ESC, Simon Burwood and chairman Ken Simpson, along with several of their
being met can be challenging for any business operating in a hazardous environment, which is why competence is vital in all aspects of functional safety projects. Practising what it preaches, ESC knew it would reassure customers and set the company apart from competitors if the capability of its functional safety management system and people was independently audited and certified by a third party. This latest achievement compliments the company’s other accreditations including ISO9001 and ISO14001, ISO 18001 for Occupational Health & Safety and environmental systems qualified through Achilles UVDB. ESC provides functional safety
workshops and training to help companies in the power industries to improve the management of their safety systems.
Engineering Safety Consultants
esc.uk.net
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