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Defence Material Assurance
Independent assessment and approval support for materials used in UK defence programmes.
Material assurance across the defence lifecycle.
Materials used on defence programmes sit alongside general chemical regulation under a distinct set of defence standards, policies and through-life obligations. We support material and substance approval assessments, defence standard and policy compliance reviews, and restricted-substance substitution strategy.
This support spans the equipment lifecycle, from initial material selection and approval through to obsolescence, substitution and through-life change, with technical evidence and decision records kept in a form that stands up to programme scrutiny.
✓Material and substance approval assessments
✓Defence standard and policy compliance reviews
✓Restricted substance and substitution strategy
✓Technical evidence and decision records
MOD POLICY & STANDARDS
Working within MOD policy and defence standards, not around them.
Defence programmes do not sit outside UK and EU chemical regulation, but they do sit inside a parallel framework of MOD policy and technical standards that shapes how that regulation gets applied in practice. JSP 418 Leaflet 5 sets MOD policy for the through-life management of Hazardous Substances and Restricted Materials (HSRM), covering the procurement, use and disposal of consumables, infrastructure, platforms, systems and equipment that contain them. Individual Defence Standards (Def Stans) then set the specific performance, design and material requirements a platform or component has to meet.
Getting a material or substance position right for defence work means reading both frameworks together. A material can be fully compliant under UK REACH or CLP and still fail a Def Stan requirement, or meet a Def Stan and still raise a Restricted Materials question under JSP 418 Leaflet 5. We help programmes work through both at the same time, rather than resolving one and discovering a conflict with the other later.
✓Interpreting JSP 418 Leaflet 5 (Hazardous Substances and Restricted Materials) alongside UK REACH, CLP, BPR and POPs obligations
✓Cross-checking material and substance decisions against the relevant Def Stan requirements
✓Identifying where MOD policy and civil chemical regulation point in different directions, and resolving it
✓Building a single evidence position that satisfies both frameworks together
ACROSS TEAMS & ORGANISATIONS
Supporting compliance across project teams, contracts and prime contractors.
Material and substance compliance on a defence programme rarely sits with one team. It touches the project team defining requirements, the prime contractor delivering the platform, and often several tiers of sub-contractors below them, each working to their own part of the same contract.
We work alongside project teams and defence organisations to keep that picture consistent: supporting the client side in setting clear material and substance requirements into contracts, and supporting prime contractors and their supply chains in meeting them, so the same standard is applied and evidenced the same way at every tier.
✓Supporting project teams in setting clear material and substance requirements into contracts and specifications
✓Working with prime contractors and their supply chains to meet those requirements consistently
✓Providing an independent, cross-organisational view where compliance positions need to be reconciled across tiers
✓Building evidence and decision records that hold up regardless of which organisation is asked to produce them
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