Sustained Safety. Managed Risk. Optimized Integrity. - ABS Consulting

Sustained Safety. Managed Risk. Optimized Integrity.

Risk Management Leaders with a Global Presence
From daily operations that affect your bottom line to compliance issues that
can affect your viability, risk encompasses every aspect of your enterprise. ABS
Consulting offers technology-based solutions that help mitigate risk and maintain
asset integrity.
An independent, global provider of safety, risk and integrity management services,
we offer objective, accurate advice based on expert analyses and modeling. Our
team of experienced consultants, engineers and technical specialists supports your
goal to minimize risk and maximize operational stability with best practices.
To help you keep your operations running smoothly and safely, ABS Consulting
employs a comprehensive risk-based approach that manages all types of risk —
operational, man-made and natural. Our decades of industry experience provide
clients with sound, specialized recommendations that help anticipate and mitigate
hazards, maintain operations, promote safe practices, and sustain business
performance.

We Do the Math.
Our state-of-the-art technology, training and software give us analysis, modeling and consulting
capabilities unique in the risk-management industry. In fact, ABS Consulting pioneered early,
computer-based risk assessment methods for the nuclear power industry that are still in use today.

Sustained Safety
Safety Management
Control Industrial and Environmental Hazards
Even optimized operations pose risks. Effective safety management systems and training
are integral to mitigating that risk and preventing workplace hazards. Whether stemming
from natural disasters, industrial hazards or human error, safety threats must be identified,
anticipated and prevented to the fullest extent possible. ABS Consulting offers safety
management services for process safety, occupational safety and environmental safety that
range from training and staff augmentation to program assessment and oversight.
+ Process safety management support
+ Safety management systems
+ Process hazard analysis
+ Incident investigation
+ Safety culture assessment and training
Maintaining compliance with ever-changing safety and health regulations and keeping
personnel prepared for potential threats, hazards and emergencies is vital to maintaining
stable and sustainable operations.

Managed Risk
Risk Management
Understand and Mitigate Vulnerability
In an era of escalating worldwide attention to risk vulnerability, ABS Consulting is a global
leader in delivering multifaceted, technical solutions for operational, man-made and natural
risks. Our industry knowledge can help you identify potential problems for specific facilities,
analyze the risks involved, prioritize and plan for eventualities, and avoid hazardous or unsafe
outcomes. Our field expertise enables us to assess risk from multiple angles using specialized
modeling and software that drive practical and rational solutions. From simple qualitative
assessments to detailed quantitative software modeling, ABS Consulting has the know-how
to select the best tool for the job.
+ Risk assessment — quantitative risk assessment, probabilistic risk modeling
+ Hazard analysis — HAZOP, HAZID studies, layer of protection analysis
+ Catastrophe modeling
+ Security and vulnerability
+ Explosion and blast analysis
In addition to quantifying discreet risks, ABS Consulting also takes a broad view across the
risk spectrum to address your risk-management needs on an enterprise-wide scale. Assessing
risk on macro and micro levels requires technical discipline, categorical competence and smart
collaboration among various specialists.

We Think Ahead.
Understanding risk means knowing how to analyze and anticipate potential
problems. ABS Consulting thinks ahead so your business can move forward.

We Analyze Every Angle.
Limiting the potential for problems and hazards at existing industrial
facilities takes skill and expertise. ABS Consulting engineers,
consultants and expert technicians provide risk-based solutions for
comprehensive integrity and quality management.

Optimized Integrity
Integrity Management
Maximize Operational Performance
ABS Consulting helps you identify and recognize opportunities to improve your assets’
integrity from concept to decommissioning. Our services extend beyond certification and
verification to encompass a proactive management practice that includes inspection,
auditing and overall quality management.
+ Project quality management
+ Third-party and risk-based inspection
+ In-service inspection management
+ Reliability and maintenance management
+ Engineering verification
To help meet your unique integrity and quality management challenges, ABS Consulting
provides a range of specialized service programs.
+ Technical due diligence
+ Financial due diligence
+ Condition assessment services
+ Specialized engineering analysis
+ Construction monitoring
+ Fleet-wide integrity management
+ Vendor qualification
+ Vendor audits
+ Owner’s representation
+ Asset valuation
+ Lifecycle cost assessment

Asset Performance from Start to Finish
ABS Consulting can help you sustain business performance throughout the asset
lifecycle with sound, risk-based decision making and enterprise-wide safety, risk and
integrity management systems.
These management systems provide the foundation for optimizing asset ability —
operability, reliability, maintainability and profitability.
We recognize that your overall business performance is not only influenced by
physical assets, operations and raw materials, but also by the leadership, culture
and people that make up your organization. ABS Consulting can help you better
understand and integrate all of these factors to sustain the performance you desire.
Industries we serve include:
+ Oil and gas
+ Chemical process
+ Nuclear
+ Government
+ Maritime
+ Insurance
Safety Management
Risk Management
Integrity Management
Existing Facilities New Facilities
Design/Build
Installation
Commissioning
Operations
Decommissioning
+ Safety Management
Systems
+ Site Safety Inspections
+ Procedures
+ Audits & Inspections
+ Safety Cases
+ Competency Training
+ Safety Culture Surveys
+ Incident Investigation
+ Root Cause Analysis
+ Fit-for-Duty Assessments
+ Feasibility Analysis
+ Risk Assessment
+ Hazard Analysis
+ Hazard Identification
+ Facility Siting
+ Process Hazard Analysis
+ Training
+ HAZOP, LOPA
+ Blast/Explosion Modeling
+ Engineer Training
+ Environmental Risk Assessment
+ Environmental Impact Studies
+ Project Quality Management
+ Third-Party Inspection
+ Engineering Verification
+ Vendor Qualification
+ Vendor Audits
+ Construction Monitoring
+ Owner’s Representation
+ Reliability &
Maintenance Management
+ In-Service Inspection
+ Change Management
+ Risk-Based Inspection
+ Mechanical Integrity
+ Condition Surveys
+ Asset Valuation
+ Financial Due Diligence
+ Extended Life Assessment
+ Lifecycle Cost Assessment

Safety. Sustain it.
Risk. Manage it.
Integrity. Optimize it.
With offices in more than 30 countries and more than 1,100 employees, ABS Consulting has the diverse
range of resources needed to help you assess risk and develop effective safety, risk and integrity
management programs and systems. ABS Consulting is ISO 9001:2000 certified and an organizational
stakeholder in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for Corporate Sustainability.
Performance. Achieve it.

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