An FSMS built to deliver projects, not just pass audits — IEC 61508 / IEC 61511
Your FSMS in place in days. Built by someone who's done it, not by your busiest engineer.
A complete functional safety management system for engineering contractors and operators, built around how you already run projects and proven on your next live job. It runs your projects, hazard analysis to handover, and produces deliverables your clients pay for. Or, if you have the time to build it yourself, the full 41-document pack to do it your way.
- Tired of project budgets leaking to rework that a proper system would have caught at concept?
- Been asked by a client to evidence your functional safety arrangements and had to scramble?
- Worried that something with your name on it comes back on you later?
What's actually at stake.
Safety instrumented systems exist for one reason: to stop people getting hurt when something goes wrong on a hazardous plant. A design error nobody catches doesn't stay a design error.
IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 both require a functional safety management system to be in place before lifecycle work starts. Most contractors assume it's covered somewhere in their QMS. Usually it isn't, and the gap shows up at the worst possible moment: at design review, during an FSA, or when a client asks to see it.
Catch a mistake at concept and it's a line on a worksheet. Catch it at site and it's redesign, re-verification, reissued documents, site labour and a late handover. Miss it completely and under UK health and safety law the person who signed it off can be prosecuted, not just the company.
Why it never gets built.
Every contractor I speak to knows they need one. Almost none have one. Not because they can't, but because the engineer who'd build it is the same engineer keeping three live projects on the road. "We'll sort the FSMS after this shutdown" becomes a sentence you've said for two years.
I used to sell templates to fix the cost problem. I sold a lot of them. Then I rang round to see how people were getting on, and the honest answer was that most were still sitting in a SharePoint folder. The cost was never the real blocker. Time was, and so was proof that the thing was worth having once it existed.
So now there are two ways to work with me.
Two ways to get your FSMS.
Option 1
Done-For-You
I build it around your projects, run it with your team on a live job, and leave your director with evidence it's paying its way. Built in days, not months. Your engineers stay on their projects.
Option 2
Do-It-Yourself
The full 41-document FSMS pack, written to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511, controlled and referenced, ready to sit under your QMS. You adapt the content, not the structure. Best if you have an engineer with the time to implement it properly.
Done-for-you: imagine if you could…
Have a complete FSMS in days, not months
Full lifecycle coverage, hazard analysis to decommissioning, in place before your next project, without pulling a single engineer off live work.
Never worry about what might come back on you
Everything is checked and verified before it's used. What you sign off holds up if anyone ever questions it.
Catch errors while they're still cheap
A system built to catch mistakes at every phase, so a problem stays a line on a worksheet instead of a redesign before handover.
Sell the deliverables your system produces
A proper FSMS produces a complete functional safety handover pack. Clients pay for that. One client recovered the full cost of their FSMS, with 25% on top, from the first pack they sold.
Answer the functional safety question in the next PQQ without flinching
The evidence and wording to prove you can deliver, before anyone has to take your word for it.
What would it do for your business to have all five in place before your next project starts?
What happened last time.
An engineering services contractor serving chemical and utility sites bought my templates. Good intentions, no time. Eighteen months later they still hadn't been implemented, because live projects always won.
We switched to done-for-you. The lead engineer had expected months of effort and roughly four times the price. The system was live in a couple of weeks, run straight onto the functional safety scope they had on at the time.
His verdict: the best FSMS he's seen, and they'll use it on every project from now on.
Then two things happened. The handover pack the system produced was sold to the end user as a deliverable, recovering the full cost of the FSMS with 25% on top. And that end user, their biggest client, now treats them as their functional safety experts. First call on every FS project.
How done-for-you works.
Built in days. Running on your live project within weeks, not months. This is what happens once you've decided to go ahead.
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Stage 1 — Baseline call
Where you actually stand. What's already in place, where the gaps are, where the risk sits. Nothing gets duplicated or missed.
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Stage 2 — The system, built for your projects
Send over what you've got. I build your FSMS to match how your firm runs a job, with SILVerify embedded so nothing is left to a spreadsheet, and the internal wording to get it approved.
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Stage 3 — Implementation on a live project
I sit with your engineers and we run the system on real work, with support through the whole of the first job. Questions that would otherwise stall adoption get answered on the spot. Anything that doesn't fit gets adjusted there and then. Your team leaves knowing how to use it, not just that it exists.
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Stage 4 — Ongoing
Documents stay current as standards change. An annual audit so your director knows the system is being used and what it's returning, not just that it's on a shelf. Twelve months of updates included.
And once it's in, it's yours to run every project on.
The guarantee.
If, at the annual audit, the Done-For-You system isn't in use and paying its way, I refund you in full. I can stand behind that because the audit shows me whether the system is being used the way it was built to be.
Two routes. Pick the one that fits your team.
Done-For-You FSMS
- Baseline call and gap analysis
- Full FSMS built around your projects, hazard analysis to decommissioning
- SILVerify embedded
- Implementation session with your team, run on a live project
- Internal approval and PQQ wording
- 12 months of updates and an annual usage audit
- Full-refund guarantee
Spaces are limited.
Do-It-Yourself FSMS Pack
- All 41 procedures, templates and live registers
- IEC 61508:2010 primary, IEC 61511:2016 overlay, CASS criteria mapped
- Controlled, referenced, ready to sit under your QMS
- 3 months of SILVerify included
- Instant download
Bought the pack and want it implemented? The full £2,997 is credited against Done-For-You, whenever you decide. No time limit.
Which one?
Done-For-You is for you if you're an engineering contractor or operator with a live or upcoming functional safety scope, and the engineer who'd build the system is already fully booked. You want it in place before the project, and you want your director to be able to see it's working.
Do-It-Yourself is for you if you have an engineer with the time and the standards knowledge to implement it properly.
Not sure? Book the Roadmap Call. If DIY is the right answer, I'll tell you.
Who's behind it
Richie Kelly, CFSE (Exida), TÜV Functional Safety Engineer, CEng MIET.
Twenty years on live functional safety projects, from process plant to nuclear licensed sites, sitting on both sides of the assessment table. Everything in this system comes from projects that were delivered, not from a standards textbook.
Founder of ROAK Engineering Ltd.
Straight answers.
Stop making the FSMS the job that's always next month.
Book your FSMS Roadmap Call. Thirty minutes, no pitch. You'll leave knowing where you stand and which of the two routes fits.