For organisations involved in operations with potential major hazards (eg railways, offshore oil and gas production, pipelines and construction industries) it is necessary to have a formalised safety management system. This is necessary to ensure organisation and planning in implementing the safety policy, and that performance monitoring and auditing are carried out.

Woodhill offers services to support safety and hazard management at all levels. Woodhill has extensive experience from development of management systems to hazard identification and risk assessment, and preparation of safety cases.

It is essential that a management system has procedures in place to identify and manage major hazards. Hazard management should consider methods of prevention, detection, control and mitigation to reduce the risks to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP).

Woodhill have helped a number of operators prepare safety management systems based on the principles of quality management (ISO9001), and have assisted with the training and audits for system implementation.

Woodhill have developed methods of hazard identification based on the principles of HAZOP, which can include risk ranking for hazard screening and assessment of risk reduction.

For assessment of major risks, we have consequence modeling software and an integrated quantified risk assessment (QRA) model. We have completed risk modeling for a number of large UK production facilities to support safety cases submitted to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and operational safety studies submitted to certifying authorities.