The engineering sector is often thought to be a low hazard low risk environment that is not susceptible to large property losses. There are however, a number of common hazards present that have the ability to contribute to a catastrophic loss.  Whether manufacturing high-volume products or bespoke complex machinery, any interruption to production, whatever the cause, can have serious ramifications throughout the entire business. Intelligent risk engineering should protect critical plant and machinery instead of focusing just on the building housing the machinery.  It typically starts with equipment-level considerations such as plant design, arrangement, control and local protection and culminates in an overall strategy for risk improvement.The elciem team has worked within the engineering sector throughout the world and leverages this experience to provide realistic and achievable risk solutions based around industry best-practice codes and guidance standards.  Our experience of some of the more testing engineering environments includes:

• Aluminium smelting and processing operations
• Several of the worlds largest car manufacturers and associated suppliers
• Two of the world’s largest container manufacturers
• Iron ore processing