CRA employs experts who understand the UK regulatory requirements for safety case production and have experience working in the international community (e.g. WANO, IAEA). They also have experience in authorship and verification as well as independent assessment. In addition, CRA can produce supporting safety case materials such as ALARP assessments and optioneering, development of Fault Schedules, review of Safety Systems and updates of Operational Technical Specifications. Bespoke safety case development training courses can also be provided depending on our clients’ needs.
CRA has the largest integrated team of PSA/HFA/Safety Case Consultants in the UK. Our strength lies in translating complex systems into logical models that can then be populated with relevant plant, engineering and human failure data to gain valuable risk insights. We have the capability to develop Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 PSAs, which provides a full risk analysis from frequency of core damage due to plant faults and hazards (e.g. fire, flood, and seismic), to the radiological risk to the public and environment.
Each of our consultants has trained in Human Factors, and we also have a specialist team of qualified Human Factors practitioners with extensive experience in the Defence and Nuclear sectors. We are also one of the leaders in the field of Human Reliability Assessment.
Our team members are some of the UK’s leading practitioners in the field of Probabilistic Safety and Reliability Analysis. Much of our work has taken place as part of the comprehensive and rigorous periodic Probabilistic Safety Analyses that are required by the Health and Safety Executive for every UK nuclear power station. Our team members have been involved with this programme since its inception in the early 1980s and based, in part, on this work it is considered that CRA offers experience unmatched by any other consultancy in the UK.