engineering

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.

With industry trends heading in the direction of large flexible CNC and DNC machine tools replacing smaller machines, asset values are being concentrated and dependency on individual machines is intensifying. These machines are often one-offs, built to order, to do a specialist job. They incorporate customer-specific modifications and may use unique tooling resulting in long replacement lead times.

Intelligent risk engineering is designed to protect critical plant and machinery instead of just the building housing the machinery. It usually 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 all worked within the engineering sector both in the UK and throughout the world and leverages this experience to provide realistic and achievable risk solutions based around industry best-practice codes and guidance standards.