Exposure to chemicals • Dust • Fumes • Health effects of chemicals • Spillages • Respiratory effects • Asthma • Dust diseases • Asbestos • Welding fumes, gases & hazards • Brazing & soldering hazards • Poisoning by lead & other metals • Organic solvents • Acid & alkali risks • Pesticides • Sick building syndrome • Respiratory & skin sensitisers • Photographic processing hazards • Radiography • Radioactive substances • Radiation hazards • Workplace & environmental air contaminants • Air sampling • Ventilation • Respiratory protective ...

Particular expertise in: • Occupational respiratory disease, especially asbestos-related disease • Respiratory effects of trauma, industrial accidents or poor housing • Estimation of life expectancy

Asbestos exposure • Asbestos-related diseases • Asbestos-related legislation • Exposure, diseases, legislation • General health & safety

Martin Barnard leads a team of health and safety experts who provide expert legal advice, in construction and occupational health, for both criminal and civil cases. Our experts have vast experience in every health and safety discipline, and have the technical skills to quickly get to the heart of even the most complex issue. ...

Director with Tetra Consulting Ltd • Specialist advice for asbestos-related litigation • Past advice includes that on professional indemnity claims, personal injury claims, rent reviews & arbitrations, damage & contamination of buildings & land, together with defence of allegations for breach of various regulations concerning asbestos-related matters • Fully recognised in the industry as a project coordinator, advisor, retained consultant & trainer • Advice based on 32 years' experience • ...

Occupational hygiene • Risk assessments • Asbestos • Air sampling • Respiratory problems (asthma) from exposure to dust, solvents, gases, vapours, isocyanates & effects on skin (dermatitis) • Site inspections for exposure to hazardous substances • Production of engineer reports, etc.

I am an expert on the health effects and control of exposures to physical, chemical, biological and psycho-social stressors that arise in the work environment. My reports are accurate, brief, clear and meet the requirements of CPR 35. My current work is 80% for claimant; 5% for defendant; and 15% as single joint expert. ...

Expert advice can be given in all aspects of asbestos in the field of occupational hygiene, rent arbitrations or litigations resulting from irreversible damage to belongings & /or property

General occupational hygiene, in particular, aspects of exposure to hazardous substances • Asbestos, in particular, exposure to asbestos in the workplace • General safety with regard to risk assessment, safe systems of work, etc.

Energy consultant • Environmental health consultant • Building surveying consultant • Housing • Landlord & tenant advice & assistance • Public health consultant • Environmental protection consultant • Pest control consultant • Personal injury matters

Occupational hygiene • Asbestos • Solvents • Dusts • Metals • Fumes • Airborne contaminants • Occupational exposure • Mesothelioma • Respiratory lung diseases • Dermatitis

Alan Jones has been involved in several aspects of work to do with asbestos fibres. He has recently led an IOM team in drafting a practical guide on best practice to minimise risks of asbestos exposure for the European Commission. The guide is available in 20 languages from the EC: http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/health_safety/ asbestos_en.htm. ...

Hand-arm vibration • Whole body vibration • Noise

Utilities: • Power • Water • Incineration • Chemical • Process plant • Heavy engineering • Company due diligence • Through life asset management • Risk management • Root cause analyst & incident investigator • Environmental management of waste • Contamination control technologies • Tribology • Information systems • ESI heavy maintenance of steam & gas turbine generating plant • Surveying & management of asbestos • Life assessment & management of high temperature generating plant • Search & rescue operations

A Consultant Respiratory Physician at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust • Assessment of asbestos-related diseases, including pleural plaques, asbestosis, pleural thickening, mesothelioma & lung cancer • Pulmonary fibrosis • Pulmonary vascular disease, including venous thromboembolism (deep vein thrombosis & pulmonary embolus) • Asthma & chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Respiratory infections • Chest injury • Breathalyser cases

Contaminated land • Toxicology • Risk assessment • Incineration • Odour • Food • Dioxins • Heavy metals • Pesticides • Dust • Air quality • Radiation • Pollution • Chemicals • Asbestos • Water quality

Occupational hygiene • Exposure to hazardous substances • Asbestos exposure

Occupational hygiene • Exposure to hazardous substances • Asbestos exposure

Manual handling • Materials handling • Safety & mechanical engineering issues • Whole body & hand-arm vibration • Noise-induced hearing loss • Asbestos exposure

Asbestosis • Mesothelioma • Industrial lung disease • Lung cancer • Respiratory disease • Occupational asthma

Asbestos-related disease • Chest medicine • Toxic fume exposure • Asthma • Occupational asthma • Respiratory disease

Respiratory diseases, including asthma, asbestosis, bronchitis, emphysema & mesotheliomal tumour • Environmental factors, including fugitive gas emissions, irritants, carbon monoxide poisoning & toxicology • Occupational disease, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Drink driving, failure to give breath sample due to medical impairment • Musculoskeletal disease • Hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) ...

Accident investigation: • Industry & industrial premises • Construction & building • Docks • Agriculture • Transport & road traffic, highways • Offices & shops • Hospitals & nursing homes • Education • Sport & leisure • Occupational health & safety: • Asbestos-related illness • Industrial diseases • Respiratory illness, including asthma • Ergonomics & manual handling • Work-related upper limb disorder (RSI) • Slipping & tripping accidents • Ladders & scaffolding • Woodworking machines • Mechanical engineering: ...

Expertise: • Recognition, evaluation & control of occupational health risks such as chemicals, dusts, fumes, vapours & noise ...

Lung, respiratory & thoracic diseases • Occupational lung disease, e.g. asbestos-related • Legionnaires' disease • Lung infections • Asthma

The effect of work upon health • Management of occupational health programmes • Health & safety policies • Ventilation for control of contaminants • Control of substances hazardous to health • Health effects of the indoor environment • Stack emissions & their measurement

Problems encountered by patients with chest disease using breath alcohol measuring devices • The correct choices of antibiotics for chest infections • The management of acute chest diseases • Diagnosis & treatment of asthma • Occupational chest diseases, including asthma, asbestosis & mesothelioma ...

All aspects of chest, lung & respiratory disease, including: • Asthma • Chronic bronchitis • Emphysema • Lung cancer • Tuberculosis • Sarcoidosis • Fibrosing alveolitis

Chest medicine, general • Sleep medicine

I am able to provide reports & appear as an expert witness in the following areas: • Respiratory medicine, including occupational lung disease, asbestosis, mesothelioma, etc. • Intensive care medicine, all areas of critical illness • General medical topics

Occupational asthma • Effects of dusts on the lung, including asbestos, coal dust, silica, etc. • Treatment & prevention of tuberculosis • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Pharmacology & therapeutics in respiratory disorders • Lung cancer • Vocal cord dysfunction • Dysfunctional ventilation • Certificate of Expert Witness Accreditation ...

Negligence & malpractice in respiratory & general medicine • Asthma • Asthma management issues • Asthma death • All areas of lung disease • Occupational lung disease • Asbestos-related lung disease

Respiratory medicine • Asbestos-related lung disease • Asthma, including occupational asthma • Inhalation accidents • Lung disorders related to rheumatological & immunological disorders • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Fibrotic lung diseases • Lung cancer diagnosis & epidemiology

Consultant Physician specialising in: • Thoracic medicine • Chest diseases • Industrial lung disease • Asbestos-related disease • Asthma • Chronic obstructive lung disease • Heart lung disease

Industrial lung disease • Occupational asthma • Asbestosis • Respiratory diseases • Lung injury • Bronchitis • Emphysema • Pulmonary function testing • Medical negligence

Matters concerning diseases, disorders or normal functions of the lungs & /or pleura (linings of the lung), as well as the chest wall in relation to breathing, for example: • Asthma (including occupational asthma) • Chronic bronchitis & emphysema • Mesothelioma • Tuberculosis & other mycobacterial lung diseases • Pneumonia • Pleurisy • Pulmonary embolism • Bronchiectasis • Pneumoconioses (asbestos, coal-workers', silicosis) • Asbestos-induced pleural disease • Lung cancer • Cystic fibrosis

All aspects of respiratory medicine • Occupational diseases such as, occupational asthma, asbestos-related diseases & other pneumoconiosis • All aspects of general medicine • Life expectancy & prognosis

Expertise in all fields of respiratory medicine, including occupational respiratory conditions • Particular experience in asbestos-related respiratory complaints • Other clinical interests include lung cancer, sleep-disordered breathing & chronic ventilatory failure

Expert in asbestos-related lung disease claims • Also specialises in respiratory disorders, e.g. breathalyser claims

General medicine & respiratory medicine • Clinical respiratory physiology • Asthma • The interface of heart & lung diseases

Occupational lung disease, including asbestosis, pneumoconiosis, asthma & COPD • Chest injury • Respiratory disability • Emphysema • Fume inhalation effects

Occupational hygiene • Industrial disease litigation • Pollution, atmospheric • Safety, chemical • Safety at work

Experienced respiratory physician can provide expert reports promptly in the areas of: • Asbestos-related lung disease (asbestosis, mesothelioma, diffuse pleural thickening) • Occupational asthma • Breathalyser cases • COPD • Tuberculosis • Sleep apnoea • Internal medicine where a generalist opinion is required • Medical negligence

Personal injury, clinical negligence litigation & judicial reviews in the following areas: • Orthopaedic • Acquired brain injury • Spinal injuries • Mesothelioma & asbestosis • Spinal cord injuries • Manual handling risk assessments (people handling) • Disability Living Allowance & Incapacity Benefit appeals

Personal injury accidents in: • Factories • Workshops • Construction sites • Warehouses • Chemical plants • Power stations • Offshore platforms • Quarries • Docks • Transport premises • Agricultural premises • Offices • Shops • Fairgrounds • Leisure centres • Theme parks • Vehicles • Private dwellings • Places of public assembly • Streets, etc. • Also work-related upper limb disorders, asbestos-related diseases, occupational asthma & other work-related diseases

I have been a consultant at Whipps Cross University Hospital, London, since 2002, and am Programme Director for Specialist Registrar training in NE Thames. I have written reports for solicitors and coroners, given expert evidence in court, and am usually able to write a report within 2 weeks of receiving instructions. I deal with most aspects of respiratory medicine, including breathalyser cases, COPD, asthma, tuberculosis, lung cancer, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism and training issues. ...

I specialise in using toxicological approaches to determine how likely a chemical or dust exposure is to have caused a claimed disease or episode of ill-health. For example, I have opined on whether exposure to chemicals in cleaners was likely to have been associated with asthma & whether working with asbestos was likely to be the cause of an individual developing mesothelioma. I am able to give an opinion on these matters based on comparing the known exposure/response relationship for any ...

All respiratory & chest diseases, including: • Lung cancer of all types & causes • Mesothelioma & asbestos claims • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Asthma, including occupational disease • Breathlessness & disorders of lung physiology & functioning • Assessment & quantification of limitation of functioning due to breathing • Tuberculosis • I have a broad training in both respiratory & general medicine & can offer opinion on a wide variety of different conditions, including assessment of claimants with ...

I am a respiratory and general medicine consultant working at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust. I am also a senior lecturer in the University of Southampton and run a research group investigating respiratory infections and immunity. My main field of expertise is in airways disease (chronic obstruction pulmonary disease and asthma). I have a specialist interest in industrial lung disease - occupational asthma, asbestos-related lung diseases and pneumoconiosis.

Occupational lung disease • Chest trauma • Respiratory disability • Asbestos-induced lung disease • Lung disease as a result of coal mining • Occupational asthma • Evidential breath alcohol analysis - failure to provide

Chemical toxicology • Chemical carcinogenicity • Human risk from toxic chemicals • Risk evaluation of toxic or special wastes • Toxicology of pharmaceuticals & food additives • Civil claims • Public inquiries

General oncology (cancer) • Gastrointestinal cancer • Radiotherapy • Tumour growth rates

Steam & hot water boiler plant • Energy conservation • Mechanical, electrical, building & civil contracts • Marine engineering problems in sea-going vessels • Valuation of mechanical & civil plant • Personal injury • Industrial accident • Failure in factory & construction site equipment • Foundries & pollution • Electrical systems • Health & safety matters • Lifts • Interpretation of Electrical Regulations ...

Accident investigation: • Industry & industrial premises • Construction & building • Docks • Agriculture • Transport & road traffic, highways • Offices & shops • Hospitals & nursing homes • Education • Sport & leisure • Occupational health & safety: • Noise-induced hearing loss • Industrial diseases, including dermatitis • Respiratory illness, including asthma • Ergonomics & manual handling • Work-related upper limb disorder (RSI) • Vibration white finger (VWF) • Woodworking machines • Slipping & tripping accidents ...

Health & safety • Investigation of industrial accidents, personal injuries & fatalities • Mechanical engineering design • Energy & process engineering • Investigations of fire & explosions • Investigation of defective engineering design & plant mal-performance • Cranes • Lifting equipment • Air conditioning systems • Legionnaires disease

The effects of work upon health • Assessments of hazards & risks to health from physical, chemical & biological agents • Occupational illness & disease to nuisance aspects • Advice on health & safety legislation • Control of risks to health: ventilation, engineering, etc. • Management of occupational health • Health & safety policies • Experience over 17 years in engineering industry plus 20 years as a professional consultant • Registered Professional Occupational Hygienist

Assessment of care needs following personal injury, medical negligence & industrial injury & disease • Reports on the standard of care delivered by health visitors, school nurses, practice nurses & district nurses • Preparation of time-capped pre-action protocol reports

The Bunbury Agency has been providing domiciliary quantum and staff placement reports to solicitors on personal injury cases for the past 25 years. I joined the Agency in 2004 as care manager and I have been writing expert witness reports since 2005. In 2009 I became a certified expert witness, having completed a Bond Solon Expert Witness course in conjunction with Cardiff University. My knowledge and understanding of the domiciliary care industry is now considerable, enabling me to assess in ...