I accept instructions from defendants and claimants via solicitors on most health and safety topics. I have particular experience in health and safety legislation, fatal accident investigation, manufacturing, construction, banking, education, healthcare, charity, retail and pharmaceuticals. My skills include: risk assessment, training, work at height, fall prevention, safe systems of work, safety documentation and policies, fire safety and protection, COSHH, manual handling and work equipment.

Health & safety • Occupational diseases (asbestos, noise, hand-arm vibration) • Risk assessments • Personal Protective Equipment • Working at height • Safe systems of work • Legionnaires disease • Investigation of industrial accidents, personal injuries and fatalities • Investigations of fire and explosions • Mechanical engineering design • Investigation of defective engineering design and plant mal-performance

Mechanical engineering • Asset management • Pressure vessels • Pressure systems • Lifting equipment and lifting operations • Safety of amusement rides • Safety of fairground rides • Machinery guarding • Movable bridges • Steel industry • Water pumping stations • Bulk handling equipment • Marine engineering • Mechanical lifting equipment • Lock gates • Power hydraulics • Industrial engineering

Occupational safety & health representation • Accident/incident investigation • Risk assessment & analysis • Management systems • Safe work systems • Human factors • Engineering failures • Compliance • Due diligence • Expert witness • COVID 19 risk assessment, audit & compliance checking • Review of systematic failures and consequences investigation Alternative email: [email protected]

Nick Hepher is a highly experienced cement process engineer, with specialist knowledge for milling, pyro-processes, particle and separation technologies. With over 40 years' experience on the 'front line', Nick's 'hands on' approach has involved him in all aspects of the business, including process design, sales, contract execution, spares and services. He has been responsible for the engineering aspects of projects, both 'turn-key' and 'supply-only', and involved in sales and project management for both new plant and upgrade projects in both the UK and overseas....

Technical: • Petroleum products, including treatment design & development • Energy conservation & management • Environment • Oil & gas processing • Pipelines • Metal cutting • Metal forming • Mineral oil extraction • Gas supply & control • Pharmaceutical products • Process plant • Pressure vessels • Food & drink processing machinery • Chemical industry machinery • Welding • Functional: • Consultancy services • Process engineering & contracting &#...

I have been a Chartered Mechanical, Electrical and Building Services Engineer for 40 years. I have a wide experience of mining, process industries, power generation, construction and mechanical and electrical engineering. I have been instructed on a broad range of matters, ranging from pressure vessels to electronic controls. Most engineers know how systems should work, and how to interpret standards. My speciality is in understanding, and explaining to laymen, why engineering systems do not work as expected, and in devising and implementing proportionate remedial measures. I have a good ...

• Forensic engineering and expert witness services • Delay and quantum analysis • Construction disputes • Complex insurance claims

35 years working in power generation • Industrial plant • Project development and operations Experienced with major coal, oil and gas-fired power plants • Renewable energy • Wind turbines • Solar farms • Biomass • Electrical networks • Repair and maintenance facilities • Rotating machinery • Diesel engine generators • Gas-fired engines • Boilers • Transformers • Gas and steam turbines • Steam systems • Compressors • Pumps • Heat exchangers • Fuel preparation and storage ...

Information technology • Telecommunications • Electrical & electronic engineering • Microelectronics • Industrial electronic machine/process controllers • Software products & systems • Public & private sector technology procurement projects • Project delay analysis • IT outsourcing & project disputes • IT fitness for purpose • Patents & intellectual property rights • Computer control systems • Data centres Tony Sykes is a distinguished technology expert, specialising in information technology (I...

Mechanical engineering • Mechanical failure • Product failure • Pneumatic engineering • Hydraulic engineering • Automotive engineering • Personal protective equipment • Classic vehicles • Accident investigation: agriculture; agricultural machinery and vehicles; construction sites; mechanical; factories; falls, trips and slips; footpaths, pavements, pedestrian; forklift trucks; HGVs; industry; ladders; leisure industry and sports; lifting equipment; lifting; machinery; manufacturing industry; occupational; plant engineering; play areas and playgro...

Investigation of industrial accidents • Preparation of detailed court reports supported by photographs & plans • Manual handling • Upper limb disorders • Falls & falling objects • Slipping & tripping • Machinery • Noise & deafness • Component failures

Accident investigation • Major hazards • Fire • Explosion • Toxic gas • Chemical spills • HSWA • COMAH • COSHH • DSEAR • Industrial injuries from chemical & process hazards • Risk from transport, storage, handling & treatment of chemicals, including hazardous waste • Environmental impact assessment • Accidents to the environment • Planning inquiries (risk & air pollution issues) • Air pollution, including odour nuisance & food tainting • Cargo quality disputes • Cargo contamina...

Dan is Managing Director at Advanced Invasives and an Honorary Research Associate at Swansea University. He has been instructed as an expert in more than 40 legal cases UK-wide, ranging from rural landholdings through to multimillion-pound development sites. Uniquely, Dan is both a full Member of The Academy and a Certified Expert Witness. His specialist areas of expertise include: • Invasive plant identification, survey and mapping; establishing contamination with determination of spread and dispersal. • Assessment of Japanese Knotweed growth and spread with relati...

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) • CE marking • UKCA marking • Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC • Machinery design risk assessment EN ISO 12100 • Robot safety (EN 10218-1 and -2) • Functional safety (EN ISO 61508, EN ISO 62061, EN ISO 13849-1 & -2) • Automotive manufacturing safety • Safety of industrial trucks (AGVs/AMRs - EN 3691) • Machinery interlocks and lockout procedures (EN ISO 14119) • Prevention of unexpected start-up (EN ISO 14118)

Industrial and workplace safety management • Accident investigation • Risk assessment • Workplace transport • Explosive manufacturing • Chemical safety • Human factors • Health and safety training

Forensic delay and time element analysis with over 34 years' experience across conventional and renewable energy, data centres, infrastructure and industrial construction • Critical path and programme evaluation, extension of time assessment, delay in start-up and business interruption claims, reinstatement scheduling, and insurer advisory services • Extensive EPC experience under FIDIC, NEC and JCT contracts • Holds international appointments across the UK, Europe, MENA, the US and Asia