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Hazardous substance legislation is constantly evolving. Although this has a positive effect on health, safety, and environmental protection, businesses are faced with an increasing burden of continuous legislation monitoring and non-compliance anxiety. We will work with you to assess your inventory against key regulations such as UK REACH, ROHS, and POPs, and proactively implement solutions to ensure you remain compliant and competitive.
Your workforce is your most important asset. We can develop a substitution programme that considers regulatory risk and the certification requirements of your industry, to keep your workforce, and downstream users, safe. With proven experience in diverse sectors from aerospace to rail, and from civil nuclear to defence, we understand the challenges you face, and work with you to qualify more sustainable materials and processes to future-proof your inventory.
A supply-chain is as strong as its weakest link. Whether you’re a supplier or end user, we understand your requirements and obligations. Having supported major acquisition programmes from concept to disposal, an investment in us is an investment in your bottom line, saving you money in the long run by mitigating potential liabilities and ensuring regulatory adherence. Our proactive approach not only safeguards your operations, but also enhances your competitiveness in the marketplace, positioning you as a trusted and reliable partner to your clients.
- Strategy development that considers your industry, supply-chain, and objectives; be that sustainability, compliance and obsolescence risk management, or competitiveness.
- Materials management plan authorship that clearly articulates a route to success aligned with your programme requirements.
- Support with materials-related aspects of safety and environmental case arguments.
- Assessment of regulation requirements relevant to your business operations for key hazardous substance regulations such as UK REACH, ROHS, CLP, BPR, POPs.
- Determination of communication and notification obligations for your company and up-stream & down-stream actors in your supply-chain. Preparation of supplier questionnaires and competent body reports.
- Support with implementation and maintenance of UK REACH authorisation requirements such as exposure monitoring to ensure the health and safety of personnel, and compliance with conditions of the authorisation.
- Where applicable, authorship of defence exemption applications and associated supporting evidence, such as chemical safety reports, socio-economic assessments, and risk assessments.
- In depth analysis of your inventory, and interfacing with your supply-chain, to determine compliance and obsolescence risk.
- Safety Data Sheet review to ensure correct compliance with CLP, COSHH, and UK REACH regulations.
- Substance CAS number indexing and restriction assessment to identify any current or upcoming restrictions on use.
- Hazardous substance contract requirements setting advice and guidance to reduce ambiguity in disclosure and data requirements. Tailoring of defence-specific conditions, such as DEFCON68.
- Tailored advice on preparing for your equipment end-of-use scenario. Whether that be re-use, sale, recycling, or disposal. Hazardous substance disclosure report authoring.
- Legislation horizon scanning and substitution strategy.
- Materials and process substitution advice and research that considers safe and environmentally friendly alternatives that are resilient to changes in legislation and obsolescence.
- Qualification of new materials by both desktop assessment and undertaking of physical test programmes; including fire, toxicity, mechanical and corrosion testing. Analysis of test results to support industry certification.