Intellex Acquires Expert by Big Village

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Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Health, Safety and the Environment

ID: 728143 United Kingdom

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Expert has been Professor of Risk Management since 1997 and Director of their Centre for Decision Analysis and Risk Management. Previously he was Director of the Centre for Environmental & Risk Management from 1992 until 1997. He is a qualified scientist (B.Sc. 1965 and D.Phil. 1969) and has worked on a very wide range of risk and safety issues since 1974, ranging from consumer safety, to transport, flooding, occupational, leisure and environmental safety. Much of this work is now in the form of published reports and papers of which there are over two hundred.

He has acted as a consultant for most government departments and safety regulators, and for several international agencies and the private sector on safety issues. These include the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), the Department of Health, DEFRA, the European Consumer Safety Association (ECOSA), the World Health Organisation, the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency. In 1995/96 he served on an HM Treasury committee reviewing the setting of safety standards in Britain. He has been personally appointed by several UK Secretaries of State to lead risk assessment projects of national significance or participate on independent national advisory committees. A few years ago he completed a major project for the Consumer Safety Unit of the then Department of Trade and Industry on methods of gauging the appropriateness of safety measures to protect consumers. Recently, in 2008-9, he co-authored four reports for the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (now BIS) on risks to the public, and two for the Department of Children, Families and Schools, and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, also on risks to the public (children in that case) resulting from non-work activities. In 2006 he wrote a book ‘Environmental health policy’ at the request of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

One area of work he has been professionally associated with for over 20 years, from a risk perspective, is outdoor sport and leisure activities. His research on this includes children's play, the safety of a wide range of popular sports including conventional sports like football, adventure sports, and countryside activities more generally.

However, his main interest and expertise is in the application of risk assessment techniques and risk management principles to essentially any kind of hazard, using a multi-disciplinary perspective grounded in science, economics, psychology, sociology, communication, and legal principles.

Expert is a Chartered Fellow of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IoSH). This is the highest grade of membership in the leading professional agency of its kind in the UK and possibly Europe. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He established and teaches a postgraduate level course at Middlesex University on Risk Management at Masters and Doctoral level.

As an off-shoot his primary work in risk assessment and risk management (decision making), Expert has had two decades of experience of health and safety law in the UK through dealing with a wide variety of liability cases, many involving personal injury and some the environment. He produces post-event expert analyses for consideration by the legal process including the courts and quite often presents evidence in court.

His work has in particular identified the importance of trade-offs between the benefits of public sector activities and the risks associated with them, such that risk minimisation is not normally the objective. He is an expert on the interpretation of the international concept of 'reasonable practicability.'


Adviser to major UK land owners under the auspices of the National Tree Safety Group regarding the conflict between the risk posed by trees and their benefitsAdviser/consultant to the UK Play Safety Forum for a decade on child safety issuesConsultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency on the risks posed by different means of electricity productionConsultant to the European Consumer Safety Association on the economic valuation of injuryConsultant to barristers on the viability of legal claims and counterclaims.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1969 Degree: D.Phil. Subject: Physics Institution: Sussex University, england
Year: 1965 Degree: B.Sc. (Hons.) Subject: Physics Institution: Exeter University, England

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1997 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Director of Centre for Environmental & Risk Management Department: School Health and Social Sciences
Responsibilities:
Head of Centre for Decision Analysis and Risk Management; post-graduate teaching and research
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1989 to 1997 Employer: (Undisclosed) Title: Director of World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on Environmental Health Risk Assessment and Communication Department: School of Environmental Sciences
Responsibilities:
Head of Centre for Environmental and Risk Management
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1974 to 1989 Employer: GLC Title: Member/Head of Environmental Health and Safety Research Unit Department: Scientific Branch
Responsibilities:
Developing science-based policy on pollution control in London
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1972 to 1974 Employer: National Physical Laboratory Title: Senior Scientific Officer Department:
Responsibilities:
Application of scientific methods to metallurgical processes
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1969 to 1972 Employer: Bell Laboratories Title: Member of Technical Staff Department:
Responsibilities:
Research on solid state physics

Government Experience

Years Agency Role Description
Years: 2007 to 2009 Agency: DCMS/DCFS Role: Author Description: Produce state of the art report on the management of risk as it affects children
Years: 2008 to 2009 Agency: BERR Role: Author Description: Produce reports on how different risk actors affect societal risk decisions (the courts, insurers, experts and standards-setters)
Years: 2005 to 2007 Agency: DEFRA Role: Member of Committee Description: Deciding what to do with the UK's nuclear waste
Years: 2007 to 2009 Agency: HSE Role: Adviser Description: To advise the HSE on its policy regarding major hazard sites

International Experience

Years Country / Region Summary
Years: 2003 to Present Country / Region: Austria Summary: Advice on issues to do with the risks of energy production
Years: 2004 to Present Country / Region: Holland Summary: Member of committee dealing with consumer safety issues
Years: 2003 to Present Country / Region: Scandinavia Summary: Speaker at various semibars and conferences in energy risks

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
Fellow Institute of Physics (UK)
Chartered Fellow Institution of Safety and Health (UK)
Licenses / Certifications
Memberships
Member of the Society for Risk Analysis; Chartered Fellow of the Institution of Occupational Safety & Health; Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Physics; Member Society of Expert Witnesses
Professional Appointments
Appointed by several UK Secretaries of State to lead various studies or be a member of a nationally-important committee e.g. Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, Committee on Disposal of Offshore Structures, the panteg investigation...
Medical / Professional
Activities
 Regular consultant to most government departments and regulators (including HSE, BERR, DTI, DETR, DEFRA, MAFF, DoE, DH, DCMS, Marine Safety Agency, CAA, RNLI etc) on the management of risks
 Consultant to national and international agencies on safety including the WHO, United Nations, European Commission, European Consumer Safety Association, IAEA
 Appointed by various Secretaries of State to assess key safety issues e.g. by the Secretaries of State for Wales, for the Environment, and for Trade and Industry in respect of pubic safety and environmental affairs
 Regular adviser to the Health and Safety Executive on the management of risks
 Author of over 250 reports, academic publications and articles, mainly on risk and safety
 Lecturer at post-graduate level on risk management
 Expert witness in court cases involving health and safety since 1990
 Frequent speaker at conferences and seminars
 Teaching MSc in Risk Management at Middlesex University
 UK delegate to ISO Working Group on risk assessment of leisure activities
Publications and Patents Summary
Over 200 publications and articles

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Fairly regular stream of cases involving mainly personal injuries. Preparation of reports, appearance in court. Most recent court appearance was Uren v Corporate Leisure & MoD, Royal Courts of Justice, London.
Training / Seminars
Expert has designed and teaches an MSc in Risk Management
Vendor Selection
Some experience built over many years
Marketing Experience
Expert thinks his experience is relevant to industry because it is very up to date being based on academic underpinnings and frequent contact with policy persons in key sectors, such as regulation and the courts.
Other Relevant Experience
Specialised Experience: - Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Risk Perception and Communication
- Decision Analysis including Practicability of Safety Measures
- Consumer Safety and Policy
- Public, Occupational and Leisure Safety
- Transport Safety (all modes)
- Environmental Risk Assessments and Environmental Policy
- Major Hazard Criteria
- Radiological Protection
- Legal Aspects of Safety
- Formal Risk Assessment and HAZOP Credentials
- Materials and Product Testing and Failure Analysis

Language Skills

Language Proficiency
French Moderate

Fields of Expertise

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