C.Chem FRSC, CMIOSH, MFOH, MIRM

Colin is a chartered chemist, a chartered safety and health practitioner, a registered occupational hygienist and a member of the Institute of Risk Management.  Colin has 33 years of experience as a health, safety and environmental specialist in a wide range of industries (including construction) and government organisations.

His career in occupational health and safety started with the Health and Safety Executive in 1976 and then as a Senior Lecturer of the University of London where he ran an MSc course in Occupational Hygiene for many years.  Since 1990 he has worked as a health and safety consultant and co-founding director of two consultancy companies and most recently as Managing Director of Cogent Risk Management Ltd.   

Colin is an oral examiner for the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) Certificate and Diploma in Occupational Hygiene examinations. He is also an approved trainer for the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health’s health and safety courses.  He has designed and presented many training courses on health and safety and risk management including NEBOSH certificate courses.

Colin is a UK Registered Expert Witness and provides reports for the Courts in occupational injury and environmental cases (both civil and criminal). 

BEng, MIOSH

Hedley is a mining engineer and started his working life underground with the National Coal Board.

He joined HM Factory Inspectorate in 1969 and until he recently retired he specialised in heavy engineering, printing, plastics, wood, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, textiles and offshore oil and gas exploration and production.

Health and Safety Training It was during this latter period that Hedley was involved in the investigation of the Piper Alpha disaster. For the last 12 years Hedley has been the HSE’s principal inspector in charge of its Glasgow construction and asbestos group where he has gained wide experience of the application of the CDM Regulations.

BA BSc(Eng) ARCST MBA PhD DIC CEng FICE FIMMM FGS

John served for 26 years as a Specialist Inspector in the Health and Safety Executive. He maintains his position as an expert in construction industry health and safety matters by ongoing involvement in –

• Study and research into international models of health and
  safety systems. He has a number of personal contracts in a
  number of countries with which he shares information, data
  and opinions
• Giving detailed expert advice to clients, consultants and
  contractors on real contracts both within the UK and abroad.
  Recent work abroad involves Ireland, Spain and Belgium
• Preparing reports and appearing in court as an Expert Witness in both criminal and
  civil compensation cases
• Lecturing and writing articles and papers on construction health and safety issues.
  Over 75 such papers and articles have been published in conference papers, journals
  and magazines in the UK and elsewhere across the world. He has lectured on
  NEBOSH coustruction courses and for the National Construction College.

Following full-time study, his doctorate was awarded in 2000 by Imperial College, London and concerned occupational health and safety risks in large international underground construction projects.

CMIOSH

Jonathan has had over 25 years' experience in the construction industry and has been a Health and Safety Adviser since 1982.

He started his career as a chemist for Eastern Gas Board and on leaving college began working for a variety of building and civil engineering contractors on projects throughout the East of England. Since becoming a Safety Adviser he has gained a wealth of practical experience at Divisional, Regional and National levels for both Anglian Water and the National Rivers Authority.

He has gained this experience by working for contractors and consultants in the private sector and Local Authority clients in the public sector. Jon now spends much of his time lecturing on construction safety issues. He has also become a CITB registered trainer and assessor for their five day Site Safety Management training course.

CMIOSH DiPOSH

Martin worked for 10 years in the construction industry both in the UK and North America for international and regional contractors on a wide range of projects and in HQ support roles.

He then joined HSE where for nearly 30 years his career majored on the construction industry both in the field, as the manager of the central and west London operational team, and in construction HQ and policy roles.

He has wide experience of incident investigation taking a leading part in the Heathrow tunnel collapse investigation and subsequently authoring the incident report that drew out lessons having wide application to major construction projects.

He was Secretary to HSC’s Construction Industry Advisory Committee (CONIAC) and was responsible for CONIAC’s Working Well Together change initiative for smaller contractors as well as contributing to other national change initiatives such as the Strategic Forum’s Respect for People Code of Good Practice and the Construction Health and Safety Summits.

He has supported the UN’s International Labour Organisation (ILO) in its work with the English-speaking nations of Africa and has recently advised the Turkish Association of Labour Inspectors. He has contributed more widely to HSE‘s work through policy roles including on the EU’s major hazards directive and as a part of the HSE’s internal inquiry into the Potters Bar rail incident.

He now acts as a consultant and has contributed to research in support of HSE’s proposals for CDM 2007.

CMIOSH MSRP

Peter is an extremely practical person who has been in and around health and safety for most of his career.

Having started off in industry for three years on the shop floor he then spent 16 years in the Health and Safety Executive. His HSE experience as Principal Inspector covered all types of factories, major utilities, Crown premises, local authorities, health services, construction and fairgrounds. After HSE, Peter worked in a senior airport safety role for 15 years culminating in multinational Group Safety until 2005.

During this time he developed health safety and fire training courses, management systems and group standards, delivered manual handling training, risk assessment, IOSH Managing Safely and presentation skills courses, undertook extensive auditing on a multi-national basis and managed all forms of assessments.