Energy & Power Awards 2019

36 | SME NEWS - 2019 Energy & Power Awards With over 30 years’ experience in working in hazardous industries, Paul Traub Associates Limited is able to offer a unique approach to human factors and safety assessment. As part of our showcase of a selection of this year’s Energy and Power Awards winners we profile the firm and share an insight into the services it has to offer. Supporting clients across a range of sectors including nuclear, oil and gas, rail and defence, Paul Traub Associates is able to offer a diverse range of services tailored to meet the individual needs of its clients. Drawing on its extensive experience in the hazardous industries space, the firm is able to provide a unique, pragmatic, yet focused approach. It’s team’s technical expertise reflects their uncompromising focus on quality that provides value for money. As a result of this approach and expertise, since it first began Paul Traub Associates has worked with a large number of FTSE 100 companies and also directly for Government Organisations such as the MoD, TfL and Network Rail. Its work has included working on Control Rooms, COMAH Sites, Nuclear Power Plants, Military Aircraft, Armoured Fighting Vehicles, CCTV, Trains, Submarines, Industrial Sites and Submarine Rescue Systems. The majority of the firm’s work is either ongoing projects or referrals, showcasing the exceptional quality of its service offering and the high esteem in which its clients hold the company and its expert team. As testimony to the excellence it provides, the firm has obtained recognition from the Secretary of State for Defence for Contribution to Defence Nuclear Safety 2019 and won Rail Industry Innovation Award 2019 for the Development of a Degraded Mode Working System for providing Signallers with a Tactical Picture. This was as part of a joint Altran and Network Rail Team. To retain and enhance this reputation for excellence, the team at Paul Traub Associates only undertake projects that they have the expertise to complete to the highest possible standards. Where it does not have the capability, it outsources services to other trusted contractors, ensuring that clients receive the outcome they need and are safe in the knowledge that their project is in the best possible hands. Seeking to constantly enhance the firm’s capabilities and ensure that they are ahead of emerging market developments, the team at Paul Traub Associates regularly explore best practice from different sectors and apply them when they are relevant and practicable to other sectors and projects to save costs and provide value to clients. Among the developments the firm is seeing currently is the drive to Agile Software development, which in turn is driving demand for a User Centred Design Approach to software intensive systems. Currently, Paul Traub Associates is working as a User Centred Design Subject Matter Expert for the British Army for a complex Battle Management System. The pioneering role is teaching the company about the key issues in Agile development. The learning from experience will be applied to future Human Computer Interface Design projects that the team work on. As part of its focus on continuing to enhance its success for the benefit of its valued clients, moving forward Paul Traub Associates will consolidate its expediting client base and continue to offer independent professional technical services. Whilst maintaining its independence, the firm will continue to do what it does best and that is to provide high quality technical services in a systematic, yet pragmatic manner. Best Nuclear Safety Assessment Company - England Paul Traub Associates Limited: Company: Paul Traub Associates Limited Name: Paul Traub Address: Peer Gynt, Cameley Road, Temple Cloud, Bristol, BS39 5AF Telephone Number: 07805276284 Web Address: www.humanfactorsintegration.co.uk