Technical Consultancy working in sectors which utilise ionising radiations and/or radioactive substances
Uk based independent technical consultancy
L2 Business Consulting Limited are a technical consultancy established in 2009, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, working for customers which utilise ionising radiations and/or radioactive substances across a number of sectors within the United Kingdom, Europe and Internationally. Across different sectors we undertake the role of Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA), Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser (DGSA) and Radioactive Waste Adviser (RWA).
Sectors we support
Sectors we support
Sectors we support
Our approach to supporting our customers is based on ensuring we understand your activities and providing clear advice on the regulatory requirements and expectations along with decades of practical implementation experience, we will work with customers to ensure that recommended approaches and solutions are deliverable, compliant and commercially viable. You will work with dedicated named members of the L2 team, who you can assured are suitably experienced and qualified personnel and will provide the responsiveness of service you need in to keep pace with your activities.
L2 operates an integrated management system (IMS) that complies with the required regulatory requirements and standards for the sectors in which we operate. Our IMS is third party accredited to ISO9001:2015 by LRQA. L2 are a HSE recognised RPA Body under IRR17 for advice we provide Employers working with ionising radiation. L2 information technology systems are certified to Cyber Essentials standard.
Latest News
Radiation Protection Requirements for Source Exchange in Industrial Radiography
Source Exchange is undertaken to temporarily remove and return a Source Assembly from a Gamma Source Projector to allow examination, maintenance and test to be undertaken on the projector or to allow a redundant Source Assembly (spent) to be removed and replaced with a new Source Assembly. Ideally Source Exchange should be undertaken off-site in…
Radiation Protection Requirements for use of Desktop XRF Analysers
X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) is a non-destructive analytical technique used to determine the elemental composition of materials and can also be used to determine the thickness of coatings applied to a material. Desktop XRF Analysers contain a relatively low energy X-Ray Generator, which is a source of ionising radiation. This article highlights key radiation protection requirements…
The New IRR17 Consent Process
The Ionising Radiation Regulations 2017 (IRR17) brought into effect a new Graded Approach for how regulators (HSE, ONR and HSENI, we focus on HSE in this article) would authorise work with ionising radiation – the higher the radiation protection risk, the greater the requirements. A three-tier system of regulatory control, Notification, Registration and Consent was…