David Threlfall

Chair

David works for Rolls-Royce plc as a process safety subject matter expert, supporting their global operations in aerospace, defence, nuclear and energy generation.

Kehinde Makinde

Secretary

Kehinde is a process safety engineer working with Nationalgrid Grain LNG terminal in Rochester, Kent. He has over a decade of experience in the oil and gas industry.

Kazym Lepessov

Treasurer

Kazym is a safety, health and environment risk manager working for SSE Renewables operations, covering hydro, offshore and onshore wind generation, solar and battery storage.

Helen Conlin

Newsletter Editor

Helen specialises in understanding the combined contribution of technology, people, processes and systems to system performance and risk management.

Richard Mundy

Webmaster

Richard is a lead process and process safety engineer within bp. He has experience relating to upstream oil and gas, refining and petrochemical businesses.

Steven Murphy

Regional Representative - Central and Southern Europe

Steve is head of process safety at Syngenta, with extensive experience particularly in hazard studies and preparation of Seveso reports.

Graham Ackroyd

Committee Member

Graham is currently the head of Syngenta’s Process Hazards Section. His particular areas of expertise include dust explosions, explosion protection, and electrostatics.

James Birch

Committee Member

James is a consultant for BakerRisk Europe Limited. He has over 35 years of operational and process safety experience across 30 countries.

Jonathan Hall

Committee Member

Jonathan is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with a background encompassing research and development, capital project delivery / commissioning and process safety risk management.

Seyed Mojtaba Hoseyni

Committee Member

Mojtaba is a lecturer in process safety and loss prevention at the University of Sheffield, specialising in computational risk and resilience assessment for complex net zero energy systems.

Andy Mackiewicz

Committee Member

Andy specialises particularly in DSEAR and hazardous area classification, and has worked in process safety for more than thirty years.

Peter Marsh

Committee Member

Peter has 39 years of experience in the oil refining and engineering contracting businesses. His primary focus area within the Safety and Loss Prevention Special Interest Group is learning from incidents.

Carolyn Nicholls

Committee Member

Carolyn is managing director of RAS Limited. Her work is predominantly with clients in the UK, working to ensure COMAH and DSEAR compliance.

Sean O'Sullivan

Committee Member

Sean is an inspector of health and safety in the energy division at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and an associate lecturer in process safety and operational integrity at the University of Surrey.

Andrew Rushton

Committee Member

Andy taught and researched loss prevention in the process industries at Loughborough University for ten years.

Panos Topalis

Committee Member

Panos currently works on risk based inspection (RBI) software, but also has considerable experience in consequence analysis.