Hazardous Substances: Ensuring Safe and Compliant Transport

Pete Stewart: Director, Hydrock

Pete Stewart has over 30 years’ experience in the nuclear and high hazard Industries as both an Engineering Officer in the Submarine Service of the Royal Navy and as an Engineering Consultant. He has acquired extensive experience in programme, project and financial management for nuclear and oil & gas projects. Pete is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot Watt University and a Master’s degree in Nuclear Science and Technology from the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Chair of the Safety and Reliability Group within the Institution.

Christopher Jones: Nuclear Safety Inspector, Transport Competent Authority, Office for Nuclear Regulation

Chris Jones is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer. Originally starting his career in the aerospace and defence industries he has 20 years’ experience in a range of high hazard industries. He has been a Mechanical Specialist Inspector with ONR for 6 years having originally started inspecting sites he has carried out assessments of new reactor designs as well as the new build at Hinkley Point C. He is currently part of the Transport Competent Authority within ONR primarily approving package designs, he is the UK’s representative at the IAEA on the transport safety standards committee.

Eric Gillett: Policy Specialist Dangerous Goods, United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority

Eric Gillett was a CAA Dangerous Goods Inspector for fourteen years and conducted safety oversight of several high-profile airlines, the Royal Mail Group, global freight forwarders and ground handling agents. The role also involved Investigating dangerous goods accidents, incidents and occurrences in accordance with Just Culture principles and the preparation of evidence for enforcement of the regulations. Now as the CAA’s Dangerous Goods Policy Specialist, he is a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Dangerous Goods Panel and Flight Operations Panel Cargo Safety Sub-Group and is tasked with formulating the CAA’s dangerous goods policy, maintaining its regulations, supporting the regulatory safety management system, and influencing the performance and risk-based dangerous goods oversight programme.

Helen Cassidy: Head of National Waste Programme, Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR)

Helen Cassidy graduated from Imperial College London in 2004 with a Masters degree in Chemistry with a Year in Industry. She has worked for LLW Repository Ltd since 2012 in a range of roles within the National Waste Programme team, becoming Head of National Waste Programme in January 2019. The role involves leading a team working with stakeholders across the UK to enable implementation of the UK LLW Strategy for the Nuclear Industry. Before joining LLW Repository Ltd, she worked for Sellafield Ltd in a range of technical and project management roles focussing on radioactive waste management and characterisation.

Patrick Eccles: Project Manager – RWM Higher Activity Waste Programme, Radioactive Waste Management

Patrick Eccles has been working in a variety of roles in the nuclear industry since 2011, including 3 years as part of the EDF central engineering function supporting the management of radioactive effluents across the fleet of 58 operating PWR reactors in France and 2 years as the owner engineer for the radioactive waste treatment systems for the new power station at Hinkley Point C. He joined RWM in 2017 and has been involved in a number of projects to optimise the management of higher activity waste in the UK, including leading the development of two Type B transport container concepts.

Mazhar Hussain: Package Design Capability Lead: Engineering Design, Sellafield Ltd

Mazhar Hussain has a BEng from Liverpool University and an MSc in engineering from the University of Aston in Birmingham and is a fellow member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Maz participates on national and international standards committees for the safe transport of radioactive material and is a member of the British Standards Institute. He started his career with Nuclear Transport Limited in the 1980s, involved in the design and safe operations of Transport Packages, moving reactor fuel from Europe to the BNFL facility for reprocessing in the mid1990s. Maz is involved in the establishment of design standards, ensuring safe packaging operations and for developing engineering design.

Jason Smalley: Chairman, UKLNG Ltd.

Jason Smalley is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and has worked in the petrochemical, oil and gas industry for 20 years. He is the founder and current Chairman of UK LNG and the Managing Director of Tutis Energy Ltd. He is currently chairing the development of IGEM guidance documents IG3 – Recovery of LNG bulk transporter and IG4 – Bulk Transportation of LNG by Road. Jason has an MSc from The University of Manchester in Asset Management, previous roles include LNG Terminal Manager, and LNG Responsible Engineer.

Gill King: Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser, EDF Energy

Steve Corner: SHEQ Systems and Safety Standards Manager, BOC Gases

Steve has worked in the steel, heavy electrical, water and compressed gases industries. His current role concerns all matters related to security, legislative compliance, product stewardship and emergency planning for BOC in Great Britain and Ireland. All compressed and liquefied gases are within Steve’s remit, from airgases such as oxygen and nitrogen, to highly toxic and flammable substances, together with their packaging, application, use, transport and handling. The role includes engagement with Regulators and other stakeholders including Fire and Rescue Services, Police, etc who have an interest in these topics. Steve is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IMechE.

Richard Willis: Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton

Richard Wills is Associate Professor in electrochemical energy storage at the University of Southampton. He obtained his PhD in 2004 for developing a lead acid flow battery. Following this he worked as a consulting engineer within the Research Institute for Industry at the University of Southampton before joining Atraverda in 2017. He returned to Southampton in 2018, where his research focused on developing battery and fuel cell technologies from fundamental materials to integrated devices.

Lisa Fitzsimons: Senior Inspector of Air Accidents (Engineering), Air Accidents Investigation Branch

Lisa Fitzsimons is a ‘Senior Inspector of Air Accidents’ at the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). Since joining the AAIB in 2010 she has been involved in investigating accidents and serious incidents to a wide range of commercial air transport aircraft and helicopters as well as general aviation aircraft, gliders and hot air balloons. Prior to working at the AAIB, Lisa worked as an aircraft structures engineer with an aircraft manufacturer and as an Air Safety Investigator within a UK airline. Lisa holds a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Queens University Belfast and an MSc in Air Transport from Cranfield University. She is a Chartered Engineer and is a member of both the Royal Aeronautical Society and the International Society of Air Safety Investigators.

Jamie Rowland: Regulatory Compliance Expert, Frazer Nash Consultancy

Jamie Rowland is a Senior Consultant in the Materials Performance group at Frazer-Nash Consultancy. He joined the defence sector in 2013, having previously worked as a Product Steward within the Oil & Gas industry managing the implementation of the REACH regulation. He has worked with SAP EHS, IUCLID and legacy systems in delivering compliant products across many industries. He has a wealth of knowledge in product regulatory support ensuring that materials, substances and articles are safe, compliant and useable. Recently he has worked on ensuring that the MoD and its tier 1 suppliers are compliant with REACH, BPR, CLP and COSHH.

Caroline Raine: Regulatory Business Area Manager, NCEC

Caroline Raine is the NCEC regulatory business area manager, with a wealth of experience in interpreting and implementing legislation relating to hazardous chemical substances. The knowledge Caroline has of legislation is wide ranging, covering both supply and transport legislation. This experience has been developed whilst working directly in the chemical industry and through consultancy projects. Caroline is a qualified Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor (DGSA) for the transport of hazardous goods by both road and rail and holds a postgraduate certificate in REACH management. She is a founder member and the current Chairman of the British Association of Dangerous Goods Professionals (BADGP) and is a council member of the Chemical Hazard Communication Society (CHCS).