Meet The Team
As an independent health & safety practitioner, I have the benefit of working with and being supported by a team of professionals in their respective disciplines – for example, fire engineers, chartered building surveyors, structural and civil engineers, senior ecologists, geotechnical engineers, conservation experts and designers.
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Duncan Arthur Ray
Dip SHEM Grad IOSH GIFireE PIEMA MIIRSM BDMA.Tech
Consulting Health & Safety Specialist
Experience:
- Construction
- Demolition
- Civil Engineering
- Insurance
- Commercial
- Industrial
- Process Industry
- Food Industry
- Housing
- Public & Private Sector
- Transport, Warehousing & Distribution
- Rail & Tramway
Academic & Professional Qualifications:
- Dip SHEM – Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental Management
- Grad IOSH – Graduate Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety & Health
- GIFireE – Graduate Member of the Institution of Fire Engineers
- PIEMA – Practitioner Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
- MIIRSM – Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management
- BDMA Tech – British Damage Management Association Technician
- NEBOSH – Certificate in Construction Health and Safety
- CITB CSCS – Professionally Qualified Person
- AP – Appointed Person Lifting Operations
- RSPH/ATAC – Level 3 Certificate in Asbestos Surveying
- IOSH/APS – CDM 2015:Principal Designer & Design Risk Management
- HSE/NEBOSH – Introduction to Incident Investigation
- CITB Temporary Works Coordinator
- TG20:21 Scaffold Inspector
- Member of the Heritage Railway Association
- First Advanced Motorist Member of the IAM
- Affiliate Member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences
- Member of the Structural Timber Association
- Member of the Fire Protection Association
- Blackpool Tramway Track Safety Authorisation Card
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Richard Bell
Consulting Railway Safety Specialist
Experience:
- Nominated SME representative for the rail supplier forum
- Experienced operational rail safety leader with excellent knowledge of permanent way, signalling and major project engineering works and train movements
- Safe system of works approved planner for Network Rail
- Competencies in rail regulations and standards issued by NR, LUL, TfL and the ORR, including ROGS
- Major input in developing the nationally recognised training and competence material used throughout the industry
- Developed and facilitated training sessions and briefings associated with UK Rail legislation and industry standards
- Experience and working knowledge of BS1100
- Railway planner – authorised PPS planner, GZAC and SSOWPs planner
- Competent trainer and assessor
Academic & Professional Qualifications:
- NEBOSH General Certificate
- NEBOSH Construction Certificate
- IOSH Working Safely
- IOSH Managing Safely and IOSH Member
- Working towards NEBOSH Diploma
- Personal Track Safety and SSOWPs
- NVQ City and Guilds New Roads and Streetworks – Supervisor
- Civil Engineering Supervisory Management February 1999
- Stonebow Group Training Certificate
- NVQ Level 3, 7318/91 Learning and development
- C & G L009 Create a climate that promotes learning
- C & G L010 Enable learning through presentations
- A1 Vocational assessor
- V1 Internal verifier
- Internal auditor – ISO 9001 / 14001 / 18001 Standards
- Top-Set Lead Accident Investigator – CPD Standards Office
- NVQ Level 1-6 Train shunting and train formation
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Lyn Eccles-Sargeant
Principal Consultant Ecologist
Experience:
- Public and Private Sectors
- Residential Developments
- Commercial/Industrial Developments
- Demolition
- Infrastructure (Water/Electricity Industry)
- Energy (Gas/fracking)
- Landfill Sites
- Designated Sites
- Cycleways
- Parks
Academic & Professional Qualifications:
- Environmental Management BSC (Hons)
- Full member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (MCIEEM)
- NEBOSH – Occupational Health & Safety (Distinction)
- Grad IOSH – Grad Member of the Institute of Occupational Health & Safety
- Confined Space Trained
- Qualified First Aider
- Great Crested Newt (GCN) Class Licence holder
- GCN EPS Licence holder
- GCN Low Impacts Class Licence (LICL)
- Badger Development Licence holder
- Bat Class 1 Licence holder
- Bat EPS Licence holder
- White-clawed Crayfish Class Licence holder
- White-clawed Crayfish (LICL)
- Specialist Advisor to Natural England
- Habitat Regulation Assessments
- Environmental Impacts Assessments
- Species Surveying (Bats/GCN/Badger/Water vole/Birds/Barn Owl/Crayfish/Otter)
- Habitat Appraisals (PEA/RCS/NVC/BNG)
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Nick Bamber
Surveying Engineer
Experience:
- Setting out
- Topographical Surveys
- Engineering Surveys
- Measured Building Surveys
- Laser Scanning
- Drone Surveys
- Underground/ GPR Utility Surveys
- Precision Monitoring
- Civil Engineering
- Deformation analysis
- Volumetrics
- Cut/ fill analysis
- Earthworks Schedules To MMHW
- 3D modelling
- CAD Drafting
- Construction
- Earthworks
- Residential
- Commercial
- Infrastructure
- Highways
Academic & Professional Qualifications:
- Advanced GNVQ in the Built Environment and the Community
- Member of the Chartered Institute Of Civil Engineering Surveyors Yorkshire Committee
- CSCS Card holder
- Previous EUSR Card Holder
- PAS91
- Construction Safety Awareness Certificate
- LSS 3D Vision Certificate
- LSS Intermediate Certificate
- LSS Land & Engineering certificate
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Phil Harris
Arboricultural Consultant
Experience:
- Trees in Relation to Development and Construction (BS5837:2012)
- Arboricultural Project, Contract and Contractor Supervision and Management
- Woodland Management
- Tree Risk Assessment and Safety Management
- Tree Planting Schemes, Plans and Specifications
- Trees in Relation to Structural Damage
- Strategic Tree Population Management
- Trees and Boundary Disputes
- Issues in Respect of the High Hedge Regulations
- Tree Preservation Orders and Trees in Conservation Areas
- Planning Appeals in Respect of Trees and Development
- Trees with Regard to Mortgage/Insurance Issues
- Tree Preservation Order Appeals and Objections
- Woodland Management and Establishment Grants
- Tree Health in Respect of Pests and Diseases
- Veteran and Ancient Trees
- Trees and Landscape Design
- Tree Monetary Valuations
- Forestry Commission Felling Licences
Academic & Professional Qualifications:
- MSc in Arboriculture and Urban Forestry
- BSc(Hons) in Arboriculture
- HND in Arboriculture
- Professional Member of the Arboricultural Association
- Professional Member of the Institute of Chartered Foresters with Chartered Arboriculturist Status
- Professional Member of the Society for the Environment with Chartered Environmentalist Status
- Quantified Tree Risk Assessment (QTRA) Licenced Practitioner (Licensee no. 465)
- Arboricultural Mortgage & Insurance Group (AMIUG) Qualified Practitioner
- LANTRA Awards Professional Tree Inspector
- International Society of Arboriculture Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ)