TAS Engineers are well placed to provide expert advice on a wide range of safety issues, particularly with respect to electrical, automation, instrumentation & control systems, hazardous areas and the requirements of The Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmosphere Regulations (DSEAR).

Our specialist engineers are available to assist site and workplace owners to ensure that they provide a safe working environment for their employees, thereby reducing potential risks to their personnel and the public, and to valuable plant and equipment.

Prevention
The range of services offered include:

• Plant and site safety audits, with recommendations for improvements.
• Arc Flash assessments and recommendations for risk reduction.
• Advice on current legislation and best practice.
• Development of written safe operating procedures.
• Advice on plant protection against lightning strikes.
• Contingency Planning.
• Health and Safety related training.
• The promotion of a good workplace safety culture.
• Alarm Management advice.

Compliance with New Regulations
TAS are committed to ensuring that their clients, past and present, are made aware of changes to legislation and best practice which might affect their business.

When relevant new legislation is announced, TAS Engineering Consultants will familiarize themselves with its requirements and assess the likely impact on each of their clients. Where necessary, TAS engineers will receive formal training in the new regulations to build on their existing expertise. They will then advise clients of the measures needed to be taken to ensure that compliance is achieved in a timely manner, providing assistance with implementation, as and when requested.

When things go wrong
Although we believe that ‘prevention is better than cure’, TAS can also assist when things go wrong.

This could include:

• providing expert opinion during incident investigation, working closely with HSE investigators, if required.
• planning and implementing safe temporary emergency measures to restore plant operability or simply to make it safe.
• designing and managing modifications to, or replacement of, defective systems or procedures.
• provision of additional training.
• identification of systematic errors, or equipment type failure that should be addressed in other parts of the plant or workplace to prevent similar events occurring.