Safe · Precise · Innovative · Risk Engineering
Independent consultancy delivering rigorous safety engineering, regulatory compliance, and evidence-based risk assurance for UK MOD and defence sector programmes.
What We Offer
SPIRE brings deep, specialist capability across the full breadth of defence safety assurance — from regulatory compliance to digital innovation.
Comprehensive safety case development, hazard identification, and risk modelling aligned to DEF STAN, MAA and UK MOD regulatory frameworks.
Expert facilitation of safety workshops, HAZIDs, and cross-functional review panels — structuring complex arguments for clarity and defensibility.
25 years' RAF aviation engineering experience, providing operational credibility and understanding of safety-critical airworthiness requirements.
Robust knowledge of UK Military Aviation regulation, Defence Standards, and MOD regulatory frameworks including MRP, and MOD AET Compliance.
Implementation of Power BI, Power Apps, and AI-assisted workflows that cut safety assessment delivery times by over 60% whilst maintaining full audit rigour.
Why Choose SPIRE
From F35 Lightning programme safety management to Defence-wide policy reform, SPIRE delivers assurance grounded in real-world operational experience.
Led UK safety assurance for the most advanced fast jet in service, delivering compliant, audit-ready artefacts under TASA framework.
Shaped MOD-level policy through structured MAA OSA process, Defence training gap analysis and QEC Carrier hazard identification contributing to service-wide standards.
As a limited company consultancy, SPIRE provides genuinely independent assurance — no institutional bias, no internal political constraints.
Professionally registered and actively contributing to the engineering community as an IET Professional Registration Assessor and Awards Panel Chair.
"Safety is a system property, not a component property.""— Nancy Leveson, Engineering a Safer World"
