Members

Mike Light

Abbeywise Limited is a cross-industry safety and security consultancy, providing research and analysis in industrial automation systems, embedded systems, and in integrated digital systems. The company was founded in 2018, primarily focusing on the defence and nuclear markets in the UK, EU and Americas. Our team consists of safety specialists (nuclear, COMAH, functional safety, aerospace, military, and to a lesser extent power, machinery and automotive), and cyber security specialists (nuclear and defence). We have worked with leading OEMs and integrators to provide support to qualification and safety certification, and can offer blended evaluations for product evaluations into multiple industries and domains.

We are based in Ulverston, Cumbria – small team of 5 core people with additional support available from our partners for specific applications / projects.

Matt Vickers

Adam West

We are a Functional Safety Consultancy with extensive experience in applying best practices to the design and engineering of Siemens Safety Instrumented Systems in accordance with IEC 61511.

Our services and expertise are utilized by Blue Chip companies in the Chemical, Power, and Nuclear sectors.

We often collaborate with other Consultants, EPCs, and System Integrator’s to ensure the delivery of our clients’ requirements.

Lewis Gorford

Analox design and manufacture gas analysis and breathing air monitoring equipment, for a variety of different markets, from one-off custom design to volume manufacture.In particular we specialise in Carbon Dioxoide and Oxygen analysers for use in ambient and hyperbaric environments for commercial diving and military customers. ISO 9001 certified, with experience in designing instrumentation for SIL 2 systems.

Luke Itzinger

For more than 70 years, AWE has supported the UK Government’s nuclear defence strategy and the Continuous At Sea Deterrent. We also use our nuclear know-how and technical expertise to provide innovative solutions that support the UK’s counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction activities.

Nick Davies

Our purpose is reimagining energy for people and our planet. We want to help the world reach net zero and improve people’s lives.

We will aim to dramatically reduce carbon in our operations and in our production, and grow new low carbon businesses, products and services.

We will advocate for fundamental and rapid progress towards Paris and strive to be a leader in transparency.

We know we don’t have all the answers and will listen and work with others.

We want to be an energy company with purpose; one that is trusted by society, valued by shareholders and motivating for everyone who works at bp.

We believe we have the experience and expertise, the relationships and the reach, the skill and the will, to do this.

Peter Knight

Cepha Controls provides custom-made automation and controls solutions for clients around the world. Our engineers have designed and commissioned control systems in Tasmania, Africa, Russia, USA, Australia and South America and throughout the UK and Europe. The company was established in 1996, and is based in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, on the edge of the industrial heartland of England, Birmingham and the West Midlands.

Ken Brown

Control and safety systems mainly in the Oil, Gas and energy sectors.

Duncan Benham

Charter Tech provides the following:

• Burner Management Systems (BMS)
• Combustion Control Systems
• Marine vapour Recovery Systems
• Subsea Emergency Shutdown Systems
• Process Control Systems; Operator interfaces
• Functional Safety Consultancy Services

Ben Ward

Andrew Holmes

• UKAS accredited certification of safety-related products to IEC 61508 and related standards.
• Notified Body 2503, test & certification for equipment in explosive atmospheres (ATEX).

David Kilshaw

UKAS accredited certification activities for safety-related products, systems and functional safety capability to IEC 61508 and related standards, e.g. IEC 61511, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, EN 50271, IEC 60730, IEC 60335, CSA C22.2 No. 0.8, UL 1998, UL 991.

• Hazard and risk analysis;
• Software certification;
• Personnel competence;
• Notified Body;
• Test & certification for equipment in explosive atmospheres (ATEX Directives);
• Assessment of machinery;
• Technical advice and training for all activities covered above.

Paulo Oliveira

We will be the global partner for a safe, secure and sustainable world

Norma Bruce

Diageo Scotland are the world’s leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands.

David Craig

Driven by our purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment, DNV is a global organization with a long-standing heritage of providing clients with third party verification and technical assurance.  DNV offers a wide range of services in Functional Safety to our global client base using leading industry experts providing third party verification and certification activities of products, systems and functional safety capability against IEC 61508 and other industry related standards such as IEC 61511, IEC 62061 and ISO 26262.   Our Risk and Technical Advisory Departments provide clients with technical consultancy services in all of the lifecycle phases of a project offering training, advice, guidance and facilitation of workshops ensuring compliance to the necessary international standards and regulatory frameworks.

Stephen Morath

Dow Corning manufacture Silicones

Michael Vintis

Draeger are manufacturers and suppliers of Fire & Gas field devices, associated control systems and bespoke analyser systems for all industrial segments.

Sanjin Berberkic

Eaton is a leader in reliability, efficiency and safety with the development and supply of Crouse-Hinds series MTL system infrastructure products and protection equipment especially suited for process industries. Many of the world’s most safety-critical processes are monitored, controlled, visualised or protected by our MTL products and we are distinguished by our global network of sales and support centres, ensuring you are always safe in our hands, wherever you are.

Dr Silke Kuball

Power generation.

Colin Easton

EFSTAS specialises in the provision of high-quality training programmes in process and functional safety as well as cyber security at all levels of awareness from introductory and intermediary courses to accredited certification programmes. Training is delivered at our training venue in Stokesley North Yorkshire, online or within Clients sites.

Andy Crosland

Robin Clark

Andrew Derbyshire

Mark Roberts

We are restoring balance.

At Evero, we convert waste wood into energy.

We divert waste wood from landfill to power homes across the country.

We will capture our carbon, delivering the solutions the UK needs to achieve net zero.

Toby Pusey

Exis Technical is founded on extensive operational and project experience within high hazard industries including upper tier COMAH establishments and Critical National Infrastructure CNI. By fully understanding the problem and company objectives, we develop practical, effective and efficient solutions for complex technical challenges.

Our Services include:

• Functional Safety – Consultancy and lifecycle support
• Cyber Security – Risk assessment, improvement strategies and roadmap
• Control and Instrumentation (C&I) and Systems – Experienced C&I Engineers to support operational teams and client project departments
• Operational Support – Experienced within operate and maintain phases including Maintenance, Functional Safety, Training, Competency assessments and EPC management
• Project support and delivery – Providing client support with scoping, design, delivery, operational readiness, EPC management or complete turn key project delivery

Our Commitment: We are dedicated to providing value and quality in all our services. Our approach is built on trust, transparency, and a deep understanding of our clients’ needs.

Location: Based in the South East of England, we support clients throughout the UK.

Exis Technical is committed to delivering high-quality solutions and building long-term partnerships with our clients.

Tim Waddell

ExxonMobil, one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy providers and chemical manufacturers, develops and applies next-generation technologies to help safely and responsibly meet the world’s growing needs for energy and high-quality chemical products.

Karl Ainscough-Gates

Fichtner Consulting Engineers Ltd is an independent Engineering Consultancy supporting energy and engineering projects across the UK and Ireland. Our unique combination of technical, environmental, contractual and financial skills complements a diverse range of engineering and due diligence projects. Our active involvement and presence throughout our sectors mean’s that that we have an excellent appreciation of the new and emerging technologies that are commercially available to our clients.

Fichtner provides functional safety services across various industries, working with our clients to ensure projects are compliant to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511. Our FS certified engineers are well practiced in reviewing verification documents, witnessing validations, creating proof test procedures, and supporting projects through the required functional safety assessments

Mark Speake and Callum Hawthorn

Fraser-Nash act as consultants for both safety device developers and asset owners who are looking to modify or install new plant. Our services include:

• developing instrumented safety system concept design;
• developing software for a high integrity application;
• providing independent reviews and audits for large multi-disciplined design projects
• assessing the design processes of a high integrity device against 61508 requirements.

Mike Revans

Haden Freeman are an Independent engineering and consultancy company, offering a complete range of engineering and management services to the process industry sector:

• Functional safety life-cycle plans
• Process hazard and risk assessment
• Layers of protection analysis
• SIL determination
• SIS specification and design
• BPCS specification and design
• Project and construction management
• Testing and validation Training
• Maintenance procedures
• Proof testing procedures
• Service level agreements.

Robert Petchey

HazCon are a E,C&I design consultancy supporting the integration of Functional Safety & Hazardous Area design through system integration, gap analysis through to design & implementation onsite on systems up to SIL 2.

Our work focus is around the implementation of the following group of standards: BS EN 61511, BS EN 60079 series, BS 7671, BS 6739, BS EN 62381, BS EN 62337 and BS EN 62382.

When developing processes and procedures, we have a strong focus on utilising the client QMS process to integrate the requirements of BS EN 61511.

HazCon strive to facilitate informed decision-making for their clients while adhering to industry best practices.

David Nicholls

For many years, Hitex has been a leading supplier of innovative and reliable tools for embedded engineers. In addition, Hitex supports customers on a consulting basis in all phases of their development projects, from concept to system realisation.

David Goldie

Honeywell is a manufacturer, Integrator and Designer of Industrial control (DCS) and Safety systems (E/E/PES); Safety Instrumented Systems compliant with IEC 61508/11 to SIL 3 for ESD, F&G and BMS applications. Provider of IEC 61508/11 Consultancy services including Reliability Analysis, FS Eng Training, Introduction to IEC 61508 Training.

Mirek Generowicz

I&E Systems Pty Ltd is a process control systems integration consultancy that specialises in functional safety engineering.  IES has over 20 years of experience in engineering complex upgrade and replacement projects for large safety instrumented systems.  IES bridges the gaps between owners, vendors, engineers and operators to achieve well integrated systems.

Stefan Hall

Providing engineering design and consultancy services to the Oil & Gas and Energy sectors since 2000.

Supporting EPC’s, Operators, and System Integrators with delivery of control and safety system projects from concept, pre-FEED, FEED, Detail Design, and Commissioning. Ensuring compliance throughout all stages of implementation to the following standards:

• BS EN 61508
• BS EN 61511
• BS EN 62443
• BS EN 62682

Kaitlyn Atkinson

Industrial Technology Systems (ITS), an industrial control systems integrator, specialises in the design and implementation of safety-related systems for chemical, nuclear, oil and gas, petrochemical and power industries.

ITS provides PLC, SCADA, DCS, Fire and Gas, Emergency Shutdown and Dual Redundant systems up to SIL 3. ITS also offers onsite support and maintenance services for these systems.

Ashley Gray

Invertek Drives is dedicated to the design and manufacture of sophisticated Variable Frequency Drives, used to control motors in a wide variety of industrial and energy saving applications.

Rajesh Jairath

Ithaca Energy is a leading independent oil and gas operator in the North Sea with a strong track record of material value creation.

Founded in 2004, Ithaca Energy has been on a rapid growth trajectory in the last five years, following a series of transformational M&A transactions and the Group’s recent Business Combination with Eni UK (completed October 2024), creating a dynamic growth player with operations of significant scale and longevity. Today, Ithaca Energy is the largest oil and gas operator in the UKCS by resources and ranks as the second largest independent operator in the UKCS by production.

https://www.ithacaenergy.com/about-us

Dave Woodward

ITI Group (formerly Servelec Controls) work in the Oil and Gas and the Power and Nuclear Industries, providing services such as: Integrated Control & Safety Systems. ESD, F&G, HIPPS, DCS, SCADA; O&G, Petrochemical; Front end engineering design, Build, Test & Validation, Installation, Commissioning, Support & Maintenance; Retrofit/Refurbishment & upgrade of Legacy Systems; HAZOP, LOPA, SIS Design, Safety Requirement Specs, SIL Verification.

Jose Bilbin

Kiwa Primara GmbH is an independent testing laboratory specializing in the evaluation of safety systems and products according to international functional safety standards. Founded in 2010 in Kaufbeuren, Germany, the company provides expert testing and support for compliance with IEC 61508, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61511, ISO 26262, and IEC 60730-1 Annex H.

Beyond functional safety, Kiwa Primara GmbH offers a wide range of accredited testing and certification services, including battery testing, environmental testing, product safety, grid integration, medical device testing, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, plant certification, and automotive testing services.

All testing and certification activities are carried out in accordance with relevant international standards and quality requirements, ensuring safety, reliability, and compliance across various industries.

Peter Brown

First for trusted advice.

For 260 years, we have shown relentless curiosity to discover our clients’ challenges and to work together to identify the best solutions. We enable better safety, technical, operational and business performance in the Maritime sector, serving clients across the globe.

Our people are trusted and respected worldwide for their deep technical expertise and professionalism. We value and build strong relationships and personal connections. Our innovation is grounded in listening to our clients and colleagues. This is why Lloyd’s Register (LR) inspires confidence as a trusted advisor, supporting clients with the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Today, we are a leading provider of classification and compliance services to the marine and offshore industries, helping our clients design, construct, operate, extend and decommision their assets safely and in line with environmental expectations.

Our values: We care, we share our expertise, and we do the right thing.

Dil Wetherill

Method Functional Safety provides Training, Consultancy and Product Certification services. Our work is mainly focused on Functional Safety and SIL compliance according to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511.

=Method listens carefully to what our customers are trying to do and then work with them to achieve those aims. Our training, our advice and our products are all designed to help our clients be more successful now and into the future.

Our team serves the UK from our base in Hertfordshire.

Paul Harris

Moore Industries provide a wide range of accurate and reliable instrumentation solutions. Specialists in temperature measurement, process trip amplifiers, signal conditioning, pneumatic converters and industrial Ethernet I/O. Instrumentation for general, industrial, hazardous areas and safety-related IEC 61508 applications. Moore Industries offers nuclear industry qualified “EMPHASIS” assessed (STA) Trip Amplifiers, Temperature Transmitters and Process Controllers for use in safety critical, safety related applications.

Colin Cameron

Mutech provide the design of custom electronic equipment as a service, specialising in functional safety and intrinsic safety. We can assist with any part of the design cycle from design analysis only (e.g. FMEA) through to complete design of both hardware and software. Examples of equipment are emergency shutdown systems, control and communication, gas detection, specialist instrumentation and power supplies.

Mutech assemble circuits boards (PCBs/PCAs) as a contract electronics manufacturer (CEM) with third party assessment to ISO/IEC 80079-34 which provides manufacturing quality assurance for the manufacture of intrinsically safety equipment, also appropriate for functionally safety equipment.

Andrea Hamilton

National Gas Transmission own and operate the high-pressure gas transmission system in Britain. NGT are a SIS end-user, maintainer and are responsible for safety case management.

Martin Morgan

Established in 1978, providing Consultancy, Engineering Design and Support Services to the Process Industry. Our multi-disciplined team allows us to provide support to our Clients from:

• Project conception through to detailed design, commissioning and operational support.
• Process & Environmental Engineering Process Simulation Studies
• Electrical & Instrumentation Systems Process Control; DCS, PLC & SCADA systems
• Safety Studies
• Safety Instrumented System Design
• IT Services Installation, Supervision, Commissioning  and 24/7 Support

Andrew Thompson and Myles Gowen

Delivering automation solutions for PLC, SIS, DCS, SCADA, HMI, and networking systems to enhance operational efficiency and safety across industrial processes ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.

PSS are the creators of the PSMS suite of software applications, designed to help manage and validate the Logic Solver for the system’s entire lifecycle. Streamlining the time and process for testing the system logic, the tools provide.

Mark Hopkins

Procon Engineering manufacture Industrial Weighing & Process Control Systems with 24/7 on site service & support.

Fasyan Sabri

Pure Integrity is a Malaysian based consultancy company specialising in the areas of Asset Integrity and Process Safety. We provide a range of services for the oil and gas industry, both onshore and offshore, as well as the power and process industries. We pride ourselves in ensuring our clients’ design, pre-commissioning, operations and maintenance activities are safeguarded against exposure to major hazardous events, unplanned downtime and poor reliability.

Roland Scherwey

ROSAS (Center for Robust and Safe Systems Fribourg) at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO) provides leading-edge engineering services based on Safety & Reliability, Cybersecurity, Model-Based Engineering, and Intelligent Systems. Our mission is to support companies in all the phases of their product’s life cycle. We help achieving the required level of confidence for product industrialization based on our expertise in functional safety and cybersecurity. With our model-based simulation and digitalization approach, design improvements can be detected at an early stage of development and your product can be enhanced by implementing preventive maintenance abilities. Our know-how in intelligent systems has enabled the development of different use-cases such as automated driving, teleoperation, simulation, and communication with infrastructure. This experience will help automating your product development.

Our expertise:

• Safety and reliability
• Model based engineering
• Intelligent systems
• Cybersecurity

Our fields of expertise:

• Machinery
• Automotive
• Railway
• Aerospace

Liam Rhodes

Neil Crowe

Triconex by Schneider Electric is the trusted brand for safety, critical control and turbo machinery applications, in the, oil and gas, petrochemical and power industries. Providing Safety PLC’s, digital software’s, engineered solutions and services, globally.

Chris Parr

SELLA Controls (a HIMA company) is an independent engineering company specialising in the design, supply and support of integrated safety, control and automation systems, providing SIL rated safety solutions to SIL3, product development, and on-site support for a wide range of applications, including:

• High Integrity Pressure Protection
• Fire & Gas Detection
• Emergency Shutdown
• Tank Overfill Protection
• Burner Management
• Turbine Machine Control
• Pipeline Protection
• Integrated Control and Safety

Issued by CSA Group / SIRA Certification in July 2001, SELLA CONTROLS has maintained its CASS certificate No 00001 for Functional Safety Management Procedures for systems up to SIL3.

Deepti Chauhan

As the industry’s only dedicated fully integrated automation company, Sensia brings together technical excellence with unparalleled domain experience to help oil and gas operators overcome their most complex challenges.

Sensia combines the process automation, functional safety, real-time control, IoT technologies and expertise of Rockwell Automation with the measurement, instrumentation, analysis, software, analytics capabilities and expertise of Schlumberger. In doing so, and with the use of digital technologies Sensia is creating solutions to solve specific Oil & Gas Industry problems.

Our team of domain experts integrate digitally enabled process safety solutions alongside intelligent automation to help minimise risk, improve efficiency, and enhance performance.

Alan Jones

Powering Progress sets our strategy to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, generating value for our shareholders, our customers and wider society. As we move forward on this journey, we will power lives and respect nature while maintaining our core values of honesty, integrity, and respect for people.

Steve Roberts

Supplier of safety equipment for the Process and Machinery sectors, up to SIL3. Project delivery via in-house capability or via a network of accredited integrators. On site service and support and technical support helpline.

With Safety Integrated, we’re providing an intelligent answer to the steadily increasing requirements for functional safety in machines and plants. Our comprehensive, consistent solutions for the manufacturing and process automation reliably protect people, machines, and the environment – while fulfilling current and future efficiency and flexibility requirements.

Darren Buckley

SSE is a utility company predominantly located within the UK. The business comprises of Electricity generation (Fossil, Hydro & Renewables), Gas storage, Electrical contracting, Energy supply and Distribution. SSE customer base numbers over 8.5 million.

Ben Murphy

We set the standard for world-class live experiences. We bring extraordinary ideas to life, collaborating on visionary concepts, and delivering precision engineering, technical innovation, manufacturing, and production. We engineer complex movement for artists, brands, performing arts spaces, and venues around the world with our industry-leading show control and automation technology.

Stephen Broadfoot

We are devoted in our role as a strategic supplier to the UK, enhancing the nation’s resilience through reinforced supply chains and over £1bn of complex projects that we deliver each year to safeguard our society.

Michelle Nobbs

With approximately 6,500 employees across six continents, our rich diversity, unmatched vertical integration model, and unparalleled operational and technical expertise across the value chain, position Tronox as the preeminent titanium dioxide producer in the world.

Chris Hume

As part of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), RACE is conducting R&D and commercial activities in the field of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS). The UKAEA’s primary mission is fusion and this creates an imperative to develop remotely operated solutions to operate and maintain a fusion reactor. We know that we can only solve our grand challenge by working with others. Learning with the best is the premise of our national and international collaborations. This is taking us into adjacent fields: driverless vehicles, intelligent mobility, smart infrastructure and asset integrity management as well as advanced control systems, augmented reality and autonomous systems. RACE was formed specifically to enable industry. Success measures include jobs and growth in the private sector and forming international collaborations to deliver global impact.

Hassan El Sayed

UL is dedicated to helping customers navigate the complex technical and regulatory challenges of todays’ functional safety landscape. With our extensive certification expertise and holistic approach to safety engineering and assessment, UL can help clients identify, specify and determine the functional safety required for products and systems to key standards and ratings to meet their objectives.

This includes assessment and certification to the following standards

• IEC 61508;
• IEC 61511;
• IEC 62061, ISO 13849, IEC 61800-5-2, IEC 61496, IEC 61131-6;
• EN 50126, EN 51028, EN 50129;
• IEC 62619, UL 9540;
• EN 50495;
• IEC / UL 60730-1, UL 1998, UL 991, IEC / UL 62841;
• ISO 26262;
• ISO 21448, UL 4600;

Plus functional safety training programs for professionals and experts covering the above standards.

Ian Rogerson

Uniper generate and distributing electricity, and retail power and gas.

Neil Rawlinson

Veolia UK is part of a worldwide Group of companies, with over 163 000 employees worldwide. The Group designs and provides water, waste and energy management solutions that contribute to the sustainable development of communities and industries. Through its three complementary business activities, Veolia aims to achieve Ecological Transformation, helping to develop access to resources, preserving available resources, and replenishing them.

Jagjivan Virdee

An independent provider of functional safety and reliability engineering design services for Tier 1 EPC and integrator organizations. Supporting the planning, design, verification, validation, and modification phases of the SIS safety lifecycle.

VAL-FSR has accrued over 20 years of engineering experience through supporting some of the world’s largest upstream and midstream oil and gas facility designs.  Designs are executed in accordance with sector-specific codes and standards, including API, DNV ST F101, ISO, Machinery Protection, NFPA, and Norsok.

Andrew Longhurst

WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems are experts in embedded RTOS and Middleware technology with a specialisation in safety certified software. Supplying advanced RTOS and Middleware components across a broad range of market sectors and applications, from basic embedded designs, up to complex safety systems demanding the highest levels of certification.

Dr Fan Ye

We provide quality consultancy, design, engineering, procurement, construction and project management, validation and term services to clients in industry. We acquired industrial specialists CEL International in 2007 and now have over 50 years’ experience of successfully delivering process engineering projects globally in a number of specialist sectors that include pharmaceutical, oil and gas, chemical, fibres, food and beverage, and specialist equipment/machines.

Mike Keightley

Yokogawa has over 50 years of experience in the development and implementation of safety systems together with functional safety management consultancy services.

Safety Applications

ProSafe programmable and hardwired systems offer solutions for a range of applications in oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical and nuclear power industries providing;

• Emergency Shutdown (ESD) System
• Burner Management System (BMS)
• Fire and Gas (F&G) System
• High-integrity Pressure Protection System (up to SIL 4 HIPPS)