Board

Chairman - Jeremy Lewis

Jeremy Lewis is a Principal Lead Consultant with ABB Engineering Services, specialising in equipment safety and reliability with particular expertise in machinery engineering. Acknowledged as an expert in the field of machine safety assessment.  Currently he is Chairman of the Institution's Safety and Reliability Group, North-East Region Honorary Secretary and Chairman of the Engineering for Safety Committee. He has co-authored a book for the Reliability Committee of the Institution on Process Machinery Safety, and the UK HSE research report on Machinery and Rotating Equipment Integrity Inspection Guidance.

Vice-Chair

Cathy Hunsley, Transport for London

 

Immediate Past Chair

Richard Vote, JBCL

 Richard Vote was Chairman of the Safety & Reliability Group for four years until June 2011. He has been active in the wider safety and reliability world including membership of the Engineering Council Working Group re-issuing Guidelines on Risk, and a member of council for SaRS. He is co-owner and Technical Director of JBCL, which is currently responsible for the business and technical risk evaluation and verification for a series of large ‘upgrader’ heavy oil refineries. He has carried out prediction and optimisation assessments for several majors and government in the North Sea and the Far East, as well as supporting major projects. He served as a Marine Engineer Officer in the Royal Navy and after fulfilling the ambition to be ‘chief’ of his own ship, decided to branch out into the reliability world, being inspired by the first application of what is now the MoD availability prediction model.

 

Other Previous Chairs

Ian Knowles, Retired 

Brian Wimpenny, Loughborough University

 

Ordinary Members
John Andrews, Loughborough University

Nick Barnett, Ministry of Defence

Vaughan Cole, Health & Safety Executive 

Rhys Davis, Safety Assurance Services Ltd

Richard Denning, Ministry of Defence

 

 

 

 

 

Kevin Fitzgerald, Lloyds Register

Kevin Fitzgerald has extensive experience working with manufacturing and consultancy organisations. His early career in the chemicals industry included R&D, Operations and Process Safety roles and latterly as a consultant he has focused on risk management and operational performance improvement through people change. Kevin has a particular interest in organisational issues and human factors and has authored a number of technical papers in this area. He works with process, utilities and Oil & Gas businesses and with regulatory bodies worldwide.

John Hopper, Retired

Roger May, Magnox South Ltd

Roger May graduated from City University in 1977 and has spent the majority of his career operating the Magnox nuclear reactors and associated power plants at Dungeness and Sizewell. He is currently employed at Sizewell 'A' Site where the reactors are being defueled in preparation for decommissioning. He has been a member of the IMechE's Nuclear Power Committee since 2003 and is a past chairman of the Human Factors Working Group.John Mount, Rolls-Royce

 

John Mount, Rolls-Royce

John Mount is a Technical Specialist in Human Factors for Rolls-Royce Submarines in Derby.  John has extensive experience in providing Human Factors input into the design justification and safety and reliability assessment of submarine reactor plant.  John began his career as a Mechanical Engineer, and has since specialised in Human Factors, providing both Human Reliability Assessment into Probabilistic Safety Assessment, and providing Human Factors input into plant design.  Currently, John is chair of Working Group 4, Human Factors, for the IMechE Safety and Reliability Group.

Philip Myers, Ace Europe plc

Martin Newby, City University

Mark Norris, Asset Reliability Consultants Ltd

Mark has been a Reliability professional since 1998, delivering Reliability improvements, as a Senior Manager and engineer, to the; Automotive, Rail, Nuclear, Construction Equipment, Vacuum Pump, Blue Chip Manufacturing and High Technology Research sectors mainly in New Product Introduction. Mark also has experience in Asset Management and Project Management as well as Design and Development. Problem Solving is Mark's specialism at all stages of the product lifecycle. Mark facilitates and trains individuals and teams in Problem Solving techniques as well as Root Cause Analysis (such as FTA), FMEA and other Six Sigma techniques to improve new products and resolve field failure issues. Mark is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IMechE, Member of the Institute of Asset Management and Affiliate of the Chartered Management Institute.

Fred Pell, Bombardier Transportation UK Ltd

Nicola Stacey, Health & Safety Laboratory

Nicola originally studied electronic and electrical engineering at the University of Birmingham. Her final year project involved computer modelling of rail traction regenerative braking and building power electronic circuits to validate the model. To do this she taught herself the C programming language and introduced it to HSL programmers when she joined in 1986. She has since held a range of posts spending six years developing software for data display and analysis for bespoke measuring instruments and risk assessment tools. She then spent a year working in the field of ergonomics during which time she was part of a multi-disciplinary team that evaluated teaching pendants for robots and another that carried out an investigation into passenger falls from railway trains. Since 1993 she has specialised in risk, in 1995 successfully completing a part-time MSc in Process Safety and Loss Prevention from the University of Sheffield. ">

Nicola became technical lead for risk communication and management in the Human Sciences Unit 3 years ago. Her particular area of interest is integrating health and safety risk concepts into undergraduate engineering courses, publishing several conference papers in this field and being awarded an honorary visiting lectureship at the University of Liverpool in 2007.

Norman Stewart, SABIC UK Petrochemicals

Peter Stewart, Jacobs Engineering

John Strutt, Atkins Boreas

Bob Wilson, Retired

Bob Wilson is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer having served an apprenticeship covering both Mechanical and Electrical engineering. He was enrolled as a Member of the IMechE in 1971 and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute (formerly BIM/IIM) 1986/7. His engineering career has included Research and Development, Design, Production, Applications and Project Management on Commercial and Defence programmes in both Industry and the Civil Service. Prior to retirement in 2004, he was a Senior R&M Engineer within the Defence Logistics Organisation of the UK MoD. He supported the introduction of the Reliability Case and also pioneered Root Cause Analysis as part of the MoD reliability tool kit. He is now a general consultant operating under the business name of Tridiam Services including accident investigation and similar activities relating to Safety and Reliability.

Corresponding members

Graham Dalzell, TBS Cubed Ltd