Pinnacle Associates and Matom have joined together to offer unrivalled expertise in radiological operations and advisory services across many sectors, successful in response, coordination, preparation and implementation, technical support, and operational execution.

Our training service delivers specific safety courses to industry, civil and governmental departments and private organisations.

We provide services into the life cycle of nuclear power and processing plants, from new build to reactor support, decommissioning, and waste processing.

Our infrastructure is tailored for rapid response to civil and national security defence within the UK, with tested procedures for operations and management. Our operational staff are selected to best fit the demand with round the clock consultant advisory support.

Specialist training to licensed sites includes:

General Radiation Protection Courses:

• Basic radiation protection
• Radiation employee's awareness
• Employee responsibilities

Radiation Protection Supervisor Courses:

• Radiation Protection Supervisor
• RPS refresher

Specialist Radiation Protection:

• Radiation Monitoring
• Contamination control
• Homeland Security
• Nuclear licensed sites

Legislation Courses:

• Ionising Radiations Regulations Awareness
• Transport of Radioactive Materials

Our radiation protection advisory (RPA) services advise clients involved with nuclear materials on operational power and process plants, decommissioning sites, in emergency preparedness as part of CBRN and terrorism awareness, and small commercial uses.

Our RPAs are accredited by RPA2000, an HSE approved assessment body, to recognised standards.

The individual RPAs have extensive experience in radiation safety, including applications into broader fields such as transport, oil and gas exploration and exploitation, pharmaceuticals, and defence.

RPA advice includes, but is not limited to:

• Control and accounting of radioactive material
• As Low as Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) planning
• Restriction of exposure
• Dosimetry
• Contingency planning
• Preparation of Local Rules
• Prior Risk Assessment
• Statutory training in radiological protection
• Selection and training of RPS (Radiological Protection Supervisors)

Our RPAs are qualified to provide advice and assistance relating to radiological substances and the transport of radioactive materials.  Additional Services include:

• Attendance at safety meetings, including HAZOPs, for commissioning plant, plant operations, and radwaste services
• Assistance in the preparation of radiological protection aspects of safety documents
• Peer review of radiological aspects of control documents
• Support to engineering projects
• Investigations
• Review and reporting on dose statistics
• Emergency and incident support

We have broad experience in safety and risk assessment, site licensing requirements and support methodologies (shielding and inventory assessment, etc.).  This provides a robust structure on which safety case documentation is produced to meet regulatory requirements and specific site licence conditions.

We have extensive operational experience on a variety of process, power and redundant facilities.  This experience benefits safety case work and contributes to the cost effective and timely provision of safety documentation.

Service areas include:

• Hazard identification including techniques such as HAZOP studies, FMEA and hazard checklists
• Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) including Fault / Event Tree analysis
• Management and production of full safety cases and staged safety reports to include
  • Pre-Operational Safety Reports (POSRs)
  • Pre-Commencement Safety Reports (PCSRs)
  • Preliminary Safety Reports (PSRs)
  • Operational Safety Assessments (OSAs)
  • Operational Safety Cases (OSCs)
  • Decommissioning Safety Cases (DSCs)

We also assist our Clients in:

• Independent Peer Review
• Radiation safety
• Radiation Protection advice
• Health physics
• Safety Case and Risk Analysis
• Decommissioning
• Normally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM)
• Land Remediation
• Disaster Recovery
• Emergency Response
• Cleanup operations and decontamination