Rail
Within the Rail Industry our experience and expertise is unrivalled as we provide investigative chemical analysis in support of our customer’s environmental, health, safety and development projects.
Scientifics has had a long association with the rail industry dating back to 1864 when the World’s first railway laboratory was established. Later, focused on providing technical and scientific support to the regional locomotive works at Glasgow, Doncaster, Derby, Eastleigh, Crewe and Swindon, Scientifics was part of the British Rail Research Organisation until it was privatised in 1996.
Historic applications for “Railway Chemists” were the testing of coal, lubricants, metallurgy, paints, fuels, advice on use of chemicals, and many other types of investigation. One could argue that this is still the case.
The key aim of the business is to work in partnership with clients in order to provide them with a total compliance management solution in this world of increasingly onerous health, safety and environmental legislation.
Services include:
- Asbestos management and consultancy including surveying, asbestos sampling and identification
- Water hygiene management and effluent monitoring
- Drug and alcohol screening
- Environmental emissions monitoring
- Contaminated land investigation
- Occupational exposure monitoring
- Oil condition monitoring, oil analysis and grease analysis
- Forensic investigation
- Chemical analysis
- Expert consultancy in transport of dangerous goods
- Fire testing
- Optical design, measurement, testing and consultancy
- Coatings evaluation and testing
- Metallurgical investigation
- Product testing
- Construction materials testing
We work closely with all parts of the rail industry, ensuring compliance with legislation, encouraging technological development and providing expert advice in a wide range of fields.