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Bureau Veritas certifies Nexans’s risk management system

4C Offshore | Tom Russell
By: Tom Russell 30/11/2022 Bureau Veritas

Bureau Veritas (BV) has delivered certification to Nexans for its risk management system for subsea power cables. The two companies are announcing the first outcome of their partnership and aim to reduce risk and promote best practices for turnkey project delivery of high voltage power cables used for connecting offshore wind farms to onshore grids.


Due to the lack of any international or statutory certification scheme, Nexans engaged in a voluntary approach to ensure their risk management tools and processes are assessed and tested by an independent third-party body. The goal was to validate the methodology in place that allows identifying the potential hazards, associated risks and evaluate the level of protection that may be afforded to the cable.

As a result, BV established protocol and certification guidelines to review Nexans’s risk management system in line with international standards ISO 21502:2020 (Guidance on project management) and ISO 31000 (Risk management). The BV certification approach covers any phases of a development project from conceptual phase, design, procurement, manufacturing, transportation, installation and commissioning/start-up.

Anne Fossen-Helle, QHSSE & Risk Director at Generation & Transmission Business Group at Nexans: "Managing risk is an important and integrated part of the Nexans management system for delivering Subsea Power Cable Projects. By having our risk management system and projects validated against recognized standards by an independent certification company, we believe this is a trusted route to deliver stakeholder confidence showing that risk have been understood and minimized. Together with Bureau Veritas, we have certified the Nexans “Way” of managing EPCI projects and risks, developed new standards for the offshore wind farm and interconnection industry and hence reduced the risk profile of such projects and develop improved standards.”


Laurent Leblanc, Senior Vice President Technical & Operations Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore, said: "I congratulate Nexans for undertaking a voluntary certification. It is an excellent mean to define and maintain high quality standards and continuous improvement throughout independent and periodic inspections. The entire industry will benefit from these best practices for managing risk and safety challenges associated to the development of subsea cable."

BV is currently developing guidelines for subsea cables. These guidelines aim to provide updated standards to help reduce and manage risk.

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