James is a consultant for BakerRisk Europe Limited, part of the Process Safety Group. He has over 35 years of operational and process safety experience across 30 countries, covering the high-hazard, fine chemical, pharmaceutical, and SBR polymer sectors.

He has extensive experience managing process safety, technology, capital and operational improvement projects, and in customer-facing consultancy, training, and incident-resolution roles. 

He was previously EHS director for an international pharmaceutical company, and has been an IChemE volunteer on the Hazards Conference technical committee for the last ten years. He has a particular interest in the areas of human factors and safety culture.