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Abbott Risk Consulting Ltd

About Abbott Risk Consulting (ARC)

Abbott Risk Consulting Ltd (ARC) was established in 2002 and has quickly grown to become one of Europe’s largest independent safety, engineering and risk management consultancies.

The company employs more than 150 highly qualified and experienced safety engineering and risk management consultants advising clients in the Nuclear, Defence, Oil and Gas, Transportation and Renewable industries. Our people have extensive experience of helping clients comply with regulatory requirements laid down by organisations such as the Health and Safety Executive. We work on behalf of clients across all industries, in both the public and private sectors.

Our professionally qualified consultants have experience across a wide range of industries. We are committed to extending our skill base through continuous professional development and alliances with other industry experts.

ARC’s turnover is in excess of £19M. Nuclear services are responsible for over 60% of turnover.

ARC is a corporate member of the UK Nuclear Institute and a corporate member of the UK Nuclear Industry Association. We are ISO9001:2008 accredited.

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• ARC employs over 120 consultants qualified to degree level

• We have extensive experience across high hazard industries, specifically in the Civil Nuclear, Defence, Oil and Gas, Rail, Renewable and Marine sectors

• ARC is one of the largest suppliers of decommissioning safety cases to the civil nuclear sector in the UK

• ARC is a FATS supplier to the MoD and also directly supports numerous Defence Prime Contractors

• The majority of our people are registered with the UK Engineering Council as Chartered Engineers (including Fellows)

• The majority of our UK consultants are security cleared

• We have a database containing details of over 4,000 associate consultants (60 of whom are actively engaged on long term projects)

• All our people have a broad range of UK civil nuclear modern standards safety experience (across the majority of current UK Licensees)

• Several of our consultants have been integral to the production of high profile new build safety case documents

Best Companies to Work For


ARC is proud to be recognised as one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For. In all six years ARC has participated in the scheme we have achieved a top 100 placing. We were the highest placed engineering consultancy and achieved the top “3 star” accreditation in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

“This is all about our people. They make this a great place to work and I never cease to be impressed by their talent and dedication. They are all prepared to go that extra mile to ensure our clients are satisfied and this is reflected in high levels of repeat business. We have always known that we have created a good environment for people to develop and work and it’s great to have this recognition”

John AbbottManaging DirectorAbbott Risk Consulting

Staff Profiles


Jon BaggsCEng, FIMechE, MSaRSBEng Nuclear Engineering

Jon Baggs has provided professional safety consultancy services to the Civil Nuclear and Defence Nuclear industries since 1993 and has been involved in all aspects of Nuclear Safety Case production, from the conceptual or specification stage, through the production and into Safety Case implementation and management. Jon has extensive experience in the practical application of safety assessment techniques including HAZOP, Preliminary Hazards Analysis, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis and in the management of Probabilistic Risk Assessment. He also has significant experience of providing safety engineering advice, Independent Peer Review and Independent Technical Assessments for complex decommissioning projects and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant and its support facilities. He is approved as both a Safety Case Officer and an Intelligent Customer by Magnox.

Jon MyersCRadP, MinstP, MSRPMSc Computational Physics

Jon Myers has 27 years experience in the Nuclear and Defence industries gained with ARC, Asher Consulting, Amey VECTRA Ltd, AEA Technology (SRD) and BNFL Risley. He is a Chartered Radiation Protection Professional (CRadP) and Member of the Institute of Physics. He is an expert in the development of modern standards Safety Cases for Civil Nuclear and Defence Nuclear installations and has an extensive knowledge of the UK Nuclear regulatory regime. He is highly experienced HAZOP Chair and in facilitating other meetings such as SWIFT and optioneering studies. He is approved as both a Safety Case Officer and Safety Case Intelligent Customer by Magnox.

Tim LambertCEng, MIET, MINucE, MSaRSMSc Maintenance Management

Tim Lambert is a Chartered Electrical Engineer with over 25 years experience in the safety assessment of Nuclear and conventional power plant critical systems gained at Rolls-Royce, Amey VECTRA and ARC. He has extensive experience of the safety assessment of electrical, control and instrumentation (EC&I) systems for Civil Nuclear plant and for Naval Nuclear Power Plant (NNPP). He is an experienced project manager with a widely held reputation for delivering complex safety cases on time and to budget. He also has a strong track record in Independent Technical Assessment (ITA) and has successfully delivered major programmes of ITAs for submarine support facilities. Mr Lambert is currently the Lead Safety Case Engineer for the Trawsfynydd Safestore programme as well as Project Director for the delivery of over £5M of diverse tasks (design, project management and Safety Case) to Rolls-Royce Power Engineering (RRPE).

Group Clients


Our consultants support private and public sector organisations including:

• Actus Alliance• Amec• Atkins• Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)• Axiom Alliance• Babcock International Group (BIG)• BAe Systems• Costain• Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S)• Defence Estates• EDF• Halcrow (CH2M Hill)• HSE Nuclear Directorate

• HM Naval Base (HMNB) Clyde• JGC Engineering • Magnox• Morgan Est• Navantia SA• NNL – Safety Consultancy Services• NSG Environmental Ltd• Progressive Alliance• Rolls-Royce Power Engineering (RRPE)• Rolls-Royce Marine Power Operations Limited

(RRMPOL)• Sellafield Ltd• URENCO UK

Nuclear Framework Agreement Contracts


ARC has nuclear framework agreement contracts in place with:

• Atomic Weapons Establishment – Safety Case Support• Defence Equipment & Support – Framework Agreement for Technical Support (FATS)• DSRL (Dounreay Site Restoration Limited) – Safety Case support• LLWR – Low Level Waste Repository – Safety consultancy service• Magnox – Safety Case support• NNL – Safety Consultancy Services• Rolls-Royce Power Engineering – Engineering Resource Alliance (ERA) Niche• RSRL (Research Sites Restoration Limited) – Safety Case support• Sellafield Safety & Risk Management (via the Progressive and Axiom Alliances for the DSA (Design

Services Alliance Contract) – Safety Case services• Unity Alliance (Main client NSG Environmental) – Provide Direct Research Portfolio Services to the

NDA (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority)• URENCO UK Ltd – Safety Case support

The projects that fall under these nuclear framework agreements have been both substantial in terms of safety case requirements and in value – ranging from £150K (€165K) to in excess of £3M (€3.3M).

Skills and Capability


• Safety Case Preparation

• Hazard Identification and Analysis (i.e. HAZOP, HAZID, SWIFT, FMEA and Fault Tree/Event Tree Analysis)

• Deterministic Safety Assessment

• Probabilistic Safety Assessment

• As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) Justifications

• Independent Peer Review/Independent Technical Assessment

• Availability, Reliability & Maintainability (ARM) Studies

• Radiological Consequence Assessment

• Other Consequence Assessment (e.g. Explosion Modelling)

• Safety Strategy, Standards and Policy Review

• Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Assessments

• Environmental Impact Assessments (including BPEO, BPM and BAT)

• Through Life Safety Case Management

• Human Factors

• Maintenance Management Optimisation

• Optioneering and Feasibility Studies

• Engineering Substantiation

• Condition Assessment and Survey

• Specialist Studies (e.g. Electromagnetic Interference/Electromagnetic Compatibility)

• Project Management and Action Tracking, Configuration Control and Database Development

• Design Management

• Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Project Audit and Design Review

Safety and Environmental Engineering

Engineering Support Services


• Risk/Safety/Quality Management Systems Development

• Design Authority Support

• Safety Management System Audit

• Legislation Review

• Root Cause Analysis

• Emergency Planning

• Regulatory Compliance Studies

• Risk Identification and Analysis

• Performance Measurement and Improvement

• Risk Based Technical Documentation Solutions

• Quantified Risk Assessment

• Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Management

• Safety Culture Assessment and Improvement

• REACH Management

• Static and Dynamic Analysis of Systems, Structures and Components (SSCs)

• Response of Structures to Blast and Impact Loading

• Seismic Assessment through Quasi-static and Transient Analysis

• Thermal Modelling

• Stress and Loading Assessments for Compliance with Industry Standard Codes (BS, EN, ISO, ASME, DIN)

• Fatigue and Fracture Analysis

Risk Management

Mechanical Analysis Services

Civil Nuclear Projects


Chapelcross Ponds Project

“ARC have delivered several good quality safety cases in support of the decommissioning of the Pond Facility.They have worked well with a variety of stakeholders, including the project team, the site and the Regulator”

M BlackleyEngineering ManagerChapelcross

ARC have provided the lead Safety Case role for a number of high-hazard decommissioning activities for the Pond Facility at Chapelcross in Dumfriesshire. Safety Cases have included, retrieval of radiological inventory from cooling ponds to allow coupon sampling and waste characterisation and the introduction of new compressed-air powered remote-handling and cutting tools. A Category 1 Safety Case, developed by ARC, to allow the removal of redundant empty fuel skips from a population of high-hazard skips received NSC endorsement in June 2012.

ARC have extensive experience of developing Nuclear Safety Cases, successfully delivered on time and to budget, for the handling and storage of ILW and the decommissioning of Nuclear Fuel Cooling Ponds and associated infrastructure.

Recent projects include:


Sellafield Pond Retrievals Project

Hunterston ‘A’ Intermediate Level Waste StoreARC has provided the Safety Case services for the Magnox Hunterston A ILW store. The store has recently been subject to vault reconfiguration and ARC provided the safety justification for this modification. A justification for the temporary storage of ungrouted solid waste in RWMD-compliant boxes has additionally been provided to give the client flexibility in their site decommissioning strategy.

ARC was responsible for overall design management of the project and had significant input to the production of the design substantiation reports by the various design organisations. ARC produced the procedural documentation associated with management of the Inactive and Active Commissioning and provided personnel to supervise the Inactive Commissioning process on behalf of the Hunterston ‘A’ ILW Store Alliance.

In support of this project, ARC has also carried out specialist assessment, such as CFD analysis ofthe reconfigured vault. This work has demonstrated that air flow through the vault will not be significantly affected by the vault reconfiguration and that there will not be a localized build up of explosive or radioactive gases, or a humid atmosphere that could lead to a short or longer-term fault conditions.

Human Factors support was provided to the First Generation Magnox Storage Pond Retrievals Project. Input was provided to the project design team to ensure that a user-centred design approach was followed to maximise safe and efficient task performance and to minimise the likelihood of errors. In addition, any claims on the operator outlined in the Safety Case were substantiated to ensure that any reliance on operators / operator performance was acceptable.


Safety Case support to Babcock at VULCAN NRTE

Hinkley Point A

UKAEA/Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd

“We have a strong reputation for delivering on time with limited regulatory comment and review. We get it right first time and on time”

Jon BaggsNuclear DirectorAbbott Risk Consulting

ARC has provided safety case services to Babcock in support of various activities associated with the decommissioning of the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment site, adjacent to DSRL, at Dounreay. Activities include the provision of safety documentation such as Safety Justification Plans, Preliminary Safety Reports and Pre-Construction Safety Reports. ARC is also supplying Design Substantiation Reports in support of the projects.

ARC are providing nuclear Safety Cases at Hinkley Point A to allow approval to undertake use of emerging decommissioning technologies for first time UK nuclear industry use. Technologies include ultra-high-pressure liquid nitrogen blasting to remove and collect layers of surface contamination from concrete and metal without generating a secondary waste stream.

ARC currently has framework agreements with Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL) for the provision of specialist nuclear services (Safety Case services) to the Dounreay site. ARC has significant experience of the provision of Engineering Substantiation and Safety Case services to DSRL over the last ten years. ARC’s most recent support to DSRL (via Halcrow / CH2M Hill) is the LC15 review of ATO88 (D2700) Dounreay Cementation Plant facilities. This project required the reassessment of the extant Safety Case against modern standards, notably with regard to Low Consequence methodology, which allowed a significant number of previously claimed safety systems to be screened out from the justification.

Other example projects include D1208 electrical upgrade safety justification; ATO89 safety justification; D2001, D2670, D1209, ATO78 & 89 and PFR Structural Engineering Substantiation.

Defence Nuclear Projects


Rolls-Royce Power Engineering – ERA Niche

HMNB Clyde Safety Justification Group – Safety Support

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“Our can do attitude combined with both quality and delivery have been instrumental in the success of our growing support to RRPE”

Tim LambertGroup DirectorAbbott Risk Consulting

ARC has extensive experience of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant. Our experience includes the safety justification of shore support facilities as well as the propulsion plant itself.

Recent projects include:

ARC has provided specialist safety and engineering support to Rolls-Royce Power Engineering as part of the Engineering Resource Alliance “Niche” since 2011. Under this framework ARC has delivered a variety of services from Safety Case Development, Human Factors, Test Rig Management, Thermodynamics, Fluid Engineering analysis and REACH Consultancy services to Periodic Safety Review (PSR). This has entailed the formation of a large multi-disciplined team of Engineers and Consultants that have delivered all projects awarded to-date either on-time or ahead of RRPE programme.

ARC supported the SJG at HMNB Clyde to develop its safety processes, with the aim of creating a Safety Case manual which could be used for all safety-related tasks going forward. ARC developed guidance for all areas of the safety case process used by the SJG and identified how the individual areas of the Safety Case interacted. Transfer of best practice was brought into the SJG by reviewing how safety tasks were completed in the wider industry, and by using ARC’s experience of other industry areas to provide value to the customer.


Rolls-Royce – Core Production Capability (CPC) Regeneration Project

Naval Base Design Department – Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Design Support

Rolls-Royce Power Engineering – Independent Peer Review

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“Our detailed knowledge and experience of working with the SQEP Associate workforce, gives ARC a significant advantage when resourcing personnel for projects”

Andrew HopkinsonDirectorAbbott Risk Consulting

As a development of our successful support to RRPE under the ERA Niche Framework, ARC provided an extensive team of Engineers and Safety Consultants delivering the Core Production Capability (CPC) Regeneration Project. This work entails the project management / engineering of various facets of the overall project including Plant and Equipment, Manufacturing and Operational Capability, Safety Case, Requirements Management and general project support. ARC has drawn upon our extensive experience of both nuclear project delivery and supply chain management to assemble a multi-discipline team of Engineers and Consultants fully focused on project delivery.

Since ARC was established in 2002 it has provided Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering design support to the NBDD at HMNB Clyde. This support has included; Safety Case production, amendment, reviews and updates, development of design change proposals / concessions, Peer Review of design proposals and Safety Case documents and the provision of specialist advice.

ARC supplies RRPE with Independent Peer Reviewers on an “as required” basis to meet internal review needs of all safety case programmes. ARC are able to provide expert reviewers across a wide range of disciplines with extensive plant knowledge of submarine PWR1 and PWR2 systems as well as specific domain experts such as stress and fatigue. ARC’s flexible approach to IPR delivery allows RRPE to manage a highly fluctuating work profile with experts available on demand as needed.

Location and contact details


Offices:

Contact: Jon Baggs

EdinburghGlasgow Manchester Derby TauntonCheltenham LondonPerth (WA)AdelaideBrisbane Melbourne

CEng, FIMechE, MSaRSNuclear Director LtdAbbott Risk Consulting11 Albyn PlaceEdinburgh EH2 4NGUnited Kingdom

+44 (0) 131 220 0164+44 (0) 773 487 [email protected]

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