Workshop leaders
Martin Anderson is a Fellow of the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors, with a Masters degree in Process Safety & Loss Prevention. He has specialised in the area of human factors and safety management, particularly in relation to major hazards and complex systems, for over 17 years. Since 2001 he has been a Specialist Inspector (in Human and Organisational Factors) at the UK Health and Safety Executive and is currently employed in the Offshore Division. He led HSE’s response to the safety management, human factors and culture aspects of lessons from the Texas City incident and was involved in the follow-up to the Buncefield incident. Martin is currently taking forward lessons from Deepwater Horizon, and piloting a leadership intervention with senior leaders in industry. Martin is also a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety & Health and a Registered European Ergonomist.
Andy Brazier is a chemical engineer who has worked as a human factors consultant for 15 years, predominantly in the oil, gas and chemical industries. His experience and engineering background means he has a very good understanding of the risks that impact on business working in major hazard organisations; and he has a reputation for providing practical and effective advice. He has a wide experience of assessing staffing and supervision arrangements at major hazard sites, often using the method described in HSE document CRR348/2001. Many of his studies have been required as the result of organisational change.
Janette Edmonds is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors and is Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. She has 15 years' of practical ergonomics experience within various industries including the emergency services, defence, oil & gas, rail, telecoms and other applications. Janette was awarded the William F Floyd award in 1999 for her outstanding contribution to ergonomics.
Bill Gall is a Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. He has 33 years’ experience of working in industry, commercial consulting and as an HSE Inspector: first as a Nuclear Installations Inspector then as a Senior Offshore Inspector. Currently an independent consultant Bill has developed guidance and tools for industry, including EI’s fatigue guide, and is a founder member of the Energy Institute's Human and Organisational Factors Committee.
Ian Hamilton is a founding Director of Human Engineering, part of the Lloyds Register Group. He began his career in human factors in the defence sector in 1984 and then moved to air traffic management. For the past 15 years he has worked in consultancy and has expanded his areas of interest to include most aspects of human factors practice, although he maintains a particular interest in workload modelling, human performance prediction, and Human Factors Integration. At Human Engineering Ian has led the growth of the professional team, managing work in the defence, air, rail, utilities and oil & gas sectors. He has a BSc in Psychology, an MSc in Ergonomics, is a Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow of the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors.
Ronny Lardner, the Course Director, is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Director of The Keil Centre Ltd. With 20 years process industry experience, Ronny specialises in the human and organisational factors which affect health and safety. Example topics include developing safety culture & leadership, reducing human error, improving safe communication, and preventing and managing work-related stress. He was a lead contractor for safety culture in the European PRISM human factors project, and is retained as a human factors expert by several process industry clients. Ronny is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and regular contributor to the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers' safety symposia.
Paul Leach is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and lead trainer for Greenstreet Berman Ltd. Paul has significant experience of designing and delivering training interventions within a variety of high hazard industries and organisations of different size and resource. Recent examples include developing and delivering an event for improving risk based decision making in gas escapes; and a program for the maritime and Coastguard Agency on risk management and accident investigation. Paul also has detailed knowledge of competence management, workforce involvement, safety culture, risk management and human reliability assessment.
Rob Miles BSc, MA, MSc, MIMech E, CEng is a Principal Specialist Inspector: Human Factors with the UK Health and Safety Executive’s. He leads on the topic of Human and Organisational Factors for the HSE’s Offshore Division. With his team of Specialist H&OF Inspectors he provides inspection, enforcement and advice to the UK offshore industry on topics from organisational and behavioural change to user interfaces. Particular interests include safety management systems, shiftwork, competence, behaviour modification, and drug abuse in the workplace.
Johnny Mitchell is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist who has worked at The Keil Centre Ltd for six years. He has considerable experience of safety culture assessment and improvement projects in the process industries using a range of methods. He has previously conducted an innovative research project in the UK rail industry, which examined the role of trust in ensuring a strong safety culture. Johnny also specialises in analysing human factors in incident investigations and developing individual, team and organisational resilience.
Richard Scaife is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, European Registered Ergonomist and Director of The Keil Centre Ltd. He has 23 years' experience gained initially in defence and air traffic control, and latterly in the process industries. Richard was joint winner of The British Psychological Society's 2006 Practitioner of the Year Award, with his colleague Ronny Lardner, for developing a practical set of human factors analysis tools for the process industries.
Charles Shoesmith is a Chartered Psychologist who has many years' international experience consulting in the area of individual and organisational behaviour, cultural development and learning, often with an emphasis on health and safety. He has particular expertise in the design and development of innovative and effective solutions to complex organisational and people performance issues. He is an extremely effective presenter and trainer, applying his background in learning and educational theory to tailor courses to meet specific needs.
John Wilkinson is a Principal Human Factors Consultant at The Keil Centre Ltd. He previously worked for the UK Health and Safety Executive's Hazardous Installations Directorate as a Human & Organisational Factors Team Leader. The team's aim was to drive and promote awareness of, and continuous improvement in, priority human factor topics in the onshore COMAH - major hazard - industries. John managed the human factors team and strategy, coordinated and produced guidance, managed research, provided training for HID inspectors on human factors, ran workshops and seminars with the industry and intermediaries, wrote articles, and presents regularly at other conferences and seminars.