Capabilities - Introduction

HSL provides many different services drawing upon a wide range of expertise and specialist facilities. We can readily assemble multidisciplinary teams to help solve your health and safety problems.

We also have a dedicated Horizon Scanning team whose job it is to identify issues which may present significant new risks over the medium to long term to help HSE anticipate and prepare for future challenges.

Our core capabilities are focused on six topic areas:

  Fire, Explosion & Process Safety
• Explosive, flammable, explosible and energetic materials
• Gas and dust explosions
• Fire behaviour
• Ignition sources
• Exothermic reactions
• Computer modelling of fire, explosions and large scale releases
• Fire and explosion protection systems
• Prevention and protection techniques in industrial situations

  Human Factors and Risk Assessment
• Work psychology
• Ergonomics
• Risk perception and communication
• Social and economic factors
• Risk assessment methodologies
• Safety culture and management systems
• Accident causation, statistics and investigation methods
• Impact evaluations

  Occupational & Environmental Health
• Biological Monitoring
• Health effects - biological, psychological and physiological
• Microbiology
• Biological modelling using specialist computational techniques
• In-vitro toxicology
• Human volunteer studies

  Safety Engineering
• Structural integrity
• Safety critical plant and equipment
• Metallurgy and materials
• Design methods and inspection techniques
• Control systems
• Advanced computing techniques

  Work Environment
• Inhalation and dermal exposure assessment
• Exposure control
• Personal protective equipment
• Noise and vibration
• Pedestrian safety
• Thermal stress
• Computer modelling for exposure assessment

  Photographic and Technical Services
• Video, stills and digital photography
• High speed video
• 3D computer models and animation
• Mechanical design

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