Risk management plays a major part in nuclear safety and underpins both regulatory and commercial power plant operation. ABSC provides risk assessment, analysis, review and management for natural, man-made and commercial hazards.

• Natural and man-made hazard identification, assessment and analysis
  
• Safety and security assessments and policy review
  
• Environmental assessments (MIDAS)
  
• Hazard and operability studies (HAZOP, HAZID, HAZAN)
  
• Periodic safety reviews
  
• Probabilistic Safety Assessment
  
• Emergency preparedness
  
• Financial and commercial risk management
  
• Business continuity

Detailed technical assessments and validation of designs and installations ensure regulatory compliance and fitness for purpose for new builds and plant operations. ABSC has a strong group of professional engineers from every engineering discipline, providing excellent depth and breadth to our service provision.

• Mechanical, civil, electrical, pipework and C&I system assessment
  
• Design substantiation
  
• Technical service support to planning enquiries/design assessments/decommissioning plans
  
• Reliability, availability and maintainability
  
• Structural analysis
  
• Code, impact and blast assessments

From new build pre-construction or operational safety reports to individual safety cases, ABSC can provide safety case and licensing support at every stage of preparation, submission and review.

• Pre-construction safety report
  
• Safety principles definition/review
  
• Safety case management
  
• Safety case production, verification and modifications
  
• INSA support and peer review
  
• Safety submissions
  
• Hazard assessment and analysis
  
• Fault schedules
  
• ALARP assessments

Independent inspection throughout the plant lifecycle provides assurance to vendors, operators and suppliers. Our highly trained and qualified staff are fully conversant with all major nuclear codes and standards and apply them globally.

• Bank/Insurance engineer
  
• Consortium advisor
  
• Risk-informed asset management
  
• ASME (N) and third party inspections
  
• Vendor inspections
  
• Testing and auditing, factory acceptance testing
  
• Quality assurance audit

Nuclear project experience must incorporate rigorous quality assurance and regulatory substantiation. Our programme management expertise is built on best practices from major infrastructure projects in the marine, oil, gas and petrochemical industries.

• Commercial risk management
  
• Project management
  
• Outage management and substantiation
  
• Quality assurance plans and management

MIDAS™ is an automated software package capable of calculating the environmental impact of radionuclide releases from nuclear facilities under routine or accident conditions. MIDAS is designed to quickly produce "real time" estimates of plume location and intensity for immediate use by plant staff and emergency response organisations.
MIDAS-AT | MIDAS-NU

RISKMAN® is a completely integrated software system for performing quantitative risk analysis. It is being used to perform large and comprehensive probabilistic risk assessments (PRA) in the aerospace, nuclear, power, offshore and chemical process industries. RISKMAN uses event sequences, fault trees, and event trees for display and calculations.
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LEADER™ is powerful, versatile and easy to use. ABS Consulting has extensive experience in developing safety and risk analysis software. HazardReview LEADER and RootCause LEADER are designed to help you effectively manage risk. These packages may be licensed directly to a company or individual, or purchased through ABS Consulting training courses.
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THESIS BowTie™ is the market-leading software for undertaking simplified, yet integrated risk management for your whole business portfolio. Backed by ABS Consulting, THESIS assists companies/operators in the analysis and management of the hazards and risks to which their business is exposed, graphically displaying the relationship between hazards, controls, risk reduction measures and business activities.
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High quality, technical training requires industry experience and a proven training approach. ABSC training combines our Academy approach with our nuclear industry depth.

• Training in all of our service areas
  
• Nuclear awareness training
  
• Project management
  
• Security training
  
• Systematic approach to training methodology