CONSULTANCY / EXPERIENCE APPLIED
Safety work should help you make better decisions. Bring clarity to the hazards, the evidence and the work your project actually needs.
Discuss your project
WHERE SIMON CAN HELP
Support can focus on one difficult question or a defined piece of project work. These are starting points for a conversation.
Establish a practical approach to managing safety across a project. Connect the system, its lifecycle and the responsibilities of the people involved.
Possible focus: a safety program plan, management arrangements, or a review of an existing approach.
Examine what could go wrong, how it could happen and what needs to be done about it. Select analysis methods that suit your system and its stage of development.
Possible focus: preliminary hazard identification and analysis, requirements hazard analysis, or operating and support workshops.
Bring the claims, reasoning and supporting evidence together. Identify where an argument is clear, where evidence is missing and what needs further work.
Possible focus: safety case reports, evidence reviews, or an assurance review with prioritised findings.
Consider software as part of the wider system safety picture, including how safety engineering fits with an Agile development approach.
Possible focus: software safety planning, review of the safety approach, or focused guidance for an engineering team.
Bring together engineering knowledge and the realities of use, maintenance and support. Explore work health and safety alongside the system’s operating context.
Possible focus: facilitated hazard discussions, operating and support analysis, or a review of safety management arrangements.
Build a shared understanding of the principles and methods your team needs to apply. Use the questions and challenges of your own work to focus the learning.
Possible focus: tailored team training, a method workshop, or a combination of training and project support.
The scope, deliverables and responsibilities are agreed for each engagement, based on your system, available evidence and project needs.
Chartered Engineer since 1997
EXPERIENCE ACROSS COMPLEX SYSTEMS
More than 30 years of experience across safety, engineering and consultancy in the UK and Australia.
Simon’s published experience spans aviation, submarines, surface vessels, rail, air traffic management and systems of systems. His qualifications include an MSc in Safety Critical Systems Engineering and a BEng in Aerospace Systems Engineering.
HOW WE START
You don’t need a finished brief. Start with the decision you need to make and the challenge in front of you.
Describe the system, its lifecycle stage, your team and the safety question you need to resolve.
Discuss the available evidence, relevant constraints and possible support. Define the scope and intended outputs together.
Work through the agreed analysis, review or training, with findings and next steps that your team can understand and use.
LET’S MAKE SENSE OF IT
Tell Simon what you are working on, where you are in the project and what you need to understand.
