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AQS Management Systems, Inc. provides consulting services in support of ISO 9001:2008, TS 16949, ISO 13485, AS9100, ISO 14001, ISO 22000, and OHS 18001. Whether you are looking for a small amount of guidance or start to finish project support, we have the solutions to help your organization. Use our structured approaches that have proven results; or let us work with you to design an approach to meet your unique needs.

SCE has extensive facilities and test equipment for conducting standard UN testing on all explosives divisions and all hazard classes. Transport of explosives in the United States requires Competent Authority Approval by an authorized agency. The required tests vary depending on the classification sought, the material and test results. While some manufacturers’ products can self-classify if they have the ability to properly perform the requisite tests and analysis, this is not the case with explosives and certain energetic materials. Companies must use a DOT-approved laboratory witness for these tests. U.S. military and DOD facilities must have the concurrence of the Joint Classifiers for the armed services.

SCE has extensive facilities and test equipment for conducting standard UN testing on UN 1.6 explosive candidates, Insensitive Munitions (IM) and Extremely Insensitive Detonating Substances (EIDS). SCE has extensive facilities and test equipment for conducting standard UN testing on UN 1.6 explosive candidates, Insensitive Munitions (IM) and Extremely Insensitive Detonating Substances (EIDS).

We offer dust explosion testing, gas & vapor flammability testing, materials characterization testing, electrostatics testing and flammability. SCE conducts an extensive range of standard hazards tests to support safety hazard analysis. We can test any solid, liquid or gas for initiation sensitivity, speed of propagation and explosiveness. We conduct field tests, such as explosives, blasting, burn rate, as well as propagation tests, at our quarry site in western Illinois. We also conduct material tests in situ at customer plant facilities.

Let us evaluate your products, systems and industrial plants. SCE process safety specialists are highly experienced in evaluating products, process systems and industrial plants for virtually every conceivable type of safety hazard. We routinely conduct chemical, engineering and system process hazard analysis (PHAs) to assess risk, ensure and improve worker and plant safety and reduce the consequences of accidental releases of hazardous chemicals or energies in the workplace.

SCE specializes in Process Safety Management (PSM) for explosives, energetic materials, propellants and pyrotechnics. SCE process safety specialists are highly experienced in evaluating products, systems and industrial plants for virtually every conceivable type of safety hazard. Our process hazard analysis and PSM services identify risk and improve worker and plant safety. PSM program design and implementation services are designed to help companies comply with all PSM regulatory requirements as well as established industry standards.

We also conduct full scale simulation tests on building fires, vehicle fires, furniture fires, and fires in industrial and storage settings. We also conduct full scale simulation tests on building fires, vehicle fires, furniture fires, and fires in industrial and storage settings. These full scale simulation tests of fire scenarios reproduce and demonstrate the development of various phases or the entire process of a fire, from ignition until the fire is fully developed and extinguished. These tests are fully documented, and data collected during these tests can be input into appropriate fire models.