ASSURANCE
Our comprehensive knowledge of UK assurance and certification regimes ensures your project will gain approvals in the most cost-effective manner possible.
Design Assurance – Compliance Management
We have detailed knowledge of railway standards and legislation, from Directives and TSIs, to EuroNorms and UK notified technical rules. We understand their application to the approvals process, enabling us to work closely with you to ensure the process is agreed and applied in the most efficient way possible.
Whether new build systems or engineering change, we will identify the relevant standards and specific clauses, work with you to produce the necessary compliance evidence and manage the delivery of submissions to regulatory bodies.
Infrastructure – Rolling Stock, OTM/OTP
We have deep understanding of standards applicable to infrastructure – Energy, Structures, Signalling, Control and Communications systems, and rolling stock – applying to passenger, freight and OTM/OTP.
Full services
- Technical Specifications for Interoperability
- EU Directives
- BS EN (EuroNorms)
- Rail Industry standards
- Railway Group Standards / National Technical Rules
Delivering Design Assurance
We bring our domain knowledge and expertise to define the optimal approach. This balances each project’s individual characteristics with the knowledge of what precisely will be required to gain the approvals needed. We collaborate with your engineering and project management team, specialist experts, external approval and regulatory bodies and project stakeholders at both a technical and contractual level.
Full services
- Defining the strategy and producing Approvals Strategy Documents
- Gaining the acceptance of the strategy from the National Safety Authority
- Defining the applicable standards for the project
- Giving guidance on or producing requirements capture documentation
- Providing training and technical guidance on the technical submissions required to demonstrate compliance
- Liaison with external approval bodies
- Identification of any test house and test track selection for validation testing
- Ensuring that high quality compliance submissions are made in accordance with the project timescales and that the required certification is achieved
Safety Approvals and Authorisation Planning and Management
- Advice on the regulatory framework
- Approvals strategy and planning
- Managing interfaces with stakeholders, review and assessment bodies and DfT/ORR
- Preparation of structured submissions