• Development of project Safety Management Plans, and identification of Safety Requirements from legislation, regulation, standards, user requirements and Preliminary Hazard Assessment.
• Hazard identification and analyses, e.g. PHA, SWIFT, HAZOP, FHA techniques.
• Hazard management, including development / maintenance of Hazard Logs and support to ALARP justifications.
• Safety assessment throughout the project, using qualitative and (where appropriate) quantitative methods, to support development, integration and certification, e.g. FTA, FMEA and CCA techniques.
• Development / maintenance of Safety Cases to provide safety assurance and support acceptance and certification.
• Independent Safety Assessment of project or sub-system safety submissions.

JRA also provides pragmatic support to organisations, in their assurance of Corporate Safety including:

• Initiating Safety Management Systems, drawing on existing policy and processes where sensible.
• Compliance with civil requirements such as Health & Safety legislation, or standards such as OHSAS18001; military requirements such as Defence Standard 00-56.
• Establishing, detailed safety processes using process mapping tools.
• Development and delivery of safety training.
• Independent Safety Audit (ISA) of the corporate Safety Management System.

We have established and developed plans to satisfy the airworthiness requirements for the provision of an aerial target service to the MoD and more recently provided advice to the RN on airworthiness requirements and a programme to achieve the airworthiness clearance and registration of a ship-based UAS.

• Review and identification of pertinent environmental legislation.
• Identification and alignment of individual stakeholder responsibilities, and refine associated communications plan.
• Identification of environmental aspects and potential environmental impacts during a project lifecycle including the classification and prioritisation of such impacts.
• Provision of Environment Impact Assessments and associated plans.
• Development of Environmental Management Plans.
• Alignment of environmental and safety procedures to provide a user friendly integrated safety and environmental management system.
• Independent assessment of environmental management systems.
• On-going support to clients eg through training or internal auditing.

Business Process Management: We have expertise in Business Process Management including Process Mapping, and can assemble interactive business process maps for our customers. Clients are then able to use their PC desktops to guide them through any company process thereby ensuring consistency, quality and a rapid induction of new staff.

Bid Management: JRA has assisted defence and civil companies to bid for, and win, major contracts often being acknowledged as having provided the winning edge to a successful proposal. Support ranges from the co-ordination of complex multi-company, multi-national tenders for major high technology programmes, to the provision of a one-stop proposal production service to first-time bidders to the Ministry of Defence, the European Union or European Space Agency. We can assist with the formulation of bidding procedures tailored to a company's requirements, or provide a critical review of existing company bidding procedures.

• Derivation of Safety Requirements based on regulation, airworthiness standards and our own ‘UAS-friendly’ Functional Hazard Assessment methods.
• Preparation and traceability of Release to Service operational limitations documents, from clearance activities.
• Development of Hazard Assessments and Safety Cases, to support UAS acceptance and ongoing assurance.
• Provision of domain expertise for the integration of UAS with existing military systems and environments, such as onboard ship.

In the civil arena we are aware of the challenges UAS pose in un-segregated airspace and can provide support in their civil integration through:

• EUROCAE Working Group 73, the international body advising on UAS integration into manned airspace. Our specific activities include providing the lead in developing civil Safety Assessment and Clearance requirements.
• Application of our ‘UAV-Friendly’ safety assessment process aligned with manned certification requirements and tailored to ensure UAS hazards are clearly identified and robustly managed.

This is where JRA can assist you with your safety management system and required infrastructure. As experts in our field, our consulting activities focus in the area of safety assurance such as Operational Safety Cases, Safety Management Systems for Ground Handling, Hazard and Risk Assessment with associated mitigation strategies, Safety Management Reviews, Environmental Management Systems and Development of Safety Management Plans.

• We support in areas of safety and environmental assessment.
• We operate across the whole aviation sector and bring a broad perspective
• We operate at policy-making level with several partnered organisations
• Our activities are professionally executed and driven to add value
• We have extensive experience with the MoD
• We focus on practical and pragmatic solutions in the operational environment
• We work alongside clients to deliver a product that is required and easy to use
• We have unrivalled experiences and skills in our expert areas
• Safety is both our passion and our profession
• We are flexible in our approach and create many bespoke client beneficial solutions

Using DOORS or your tool of choice, the Requirements Capture and Management Process provides a foundation for –

• 1.1. Ensuring that the User Requirements Document (URD) and Systems Requirements Documents (SRD) can be, and are, evolved at a pace consistent with the overall need to achieve required In-Service Dates ISD(s)
• 1.2. Ensuring that the URD and SRD are at appropriate levels of maturity at key programme milestones
• 1.3. Ensuring that the evolution of the URD and SRD are synchronised with interdependent project and technical work-streams, and the evolution of other interdependent acquisitions

Uplifting from MODAF, utilising Information Architectures and facilitating Stakeholder Workshops to ensure all requirements are captured. Often capturing requirements ‘live’ as they develop, JRA’s military knowledge combined with tool expertise will maximise your investment, focusing spending on equipment. Saving time, money and effort by detailing the processes and structures by which proposed changes and new requirements are submitted, initiated and progressed to completion. Continuing to provide Through Life Management support after delivery. JRA’s Principal Consultant was the original Author of the ‘DOORS for MoD Projects’ course.