Each of our presenters are respected and experienced
lecturers, with many years experience in health and
safety.
Find out more about them below:
BEng CEng FICE CFIOSH FIIRSM MIIAI
Director of Health and Safety at Capita Symonds Ltd, and widely
recognised as a leading figure in the world of health and
safety.
Martin is a chartered Civil Engineer who has 30 years’
experience in construction health and safety. He worked as a
Principal Specialist Inspector for the UK Health & Safety
Executive for over 12 years and regularly acts as an expert witness
in legal cases in both the UK and Ireland. He has acted in numerous
successful defences of organisations and individuals charged with
manslaughter in the UK and Dubai.
Martin’s extensive experience has included work in the Republic
of Ireland for organisations such as Irish Rail, Intel and Wyeth
Medica, for Johnson Matthey in the USA, for Gammon Construction in
Hong Kong and for BAA in Budapest. He is particularly active in
developing health and safety strategies for major organisations,
has lectured worldwide and regularly contributes to the growing
debate on future safety requirements.
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.
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 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.
TRICIA DAIR BA (Hons) Social Science,
DipOSH; GradIOSH, AROSPA
Tricia has recently retired after 32 years with the Health and
Safety Executive. She was a Principal Inspector for 22 years
being responsible for the regulation of a wide range of
industries. The last decade has been spent specialising in
the construction industry in London and East Anglia including
involvement in the Olympic site at Stratford. Latterly she
was part of a special project responsible for the training and
development of construction inspectors new to HSE. She has
extensive experience of the enforcement of health and safety
legislation having conducted many of her own cases in
Court
JIM SKILLING BSc MSc GradIOSH
Jim retired in 2009 after 32 years with the Health and Safety
Executive. He was a principal inspector for the last 10 years,
firstly as Head of HSE’s Asbestos Licensing Unit for Great Britain
and then latterly as Construction Principal Inspector in Edinburgh
covering from the Scottish Borders to the Shetland Isles. He
has considerable enforcement experience both in terms of site
enforcement notices and major prosecutions. Throughout his career
he has worked with major contractors, local authorities and various
health and safety forums across Scotland to develop improvements
both internally and industry wide. A major part of Jim’s work has
been in the development and training of inspectors across Great
Britain and beyond. Since 2009 he has undertaken health and safety
consultancy work, including assisting in the investigation of fatal
accidents both in the UK and abroad as well as acting as an expert
witness in criminal and civil cases.
NIGEL DALY
NIGEL DALY BSc (Hons) CEng MICE CMIOSH
Director in the Department of Health and Safety at
Capita Symonds and a specialist in providing strategic health and
safety advice.
Nigel commenced his career in the construction industry
where he worked as a designer and project manager. For the past 17
years he has specialised in health and safety providing advice and
training. He has devised and delivered health and safety training
to a number of clients including Aviva Investors, Tesco, Hampshire
County Council, Kames Capital and to Capita Symonds own
staff.
Nigel has extensive experience of working with the MOD
having been involved in commissions at RAF Wattisham, HMNB
Portsmouth, MOD Main Building, the Falkland Islands and several
facilities along the east coast of England.
Nigel is a visiting lecturer in health and safety at
Kings College London.