Role of the Prudent Shipmaster: • Marine accident investigation • Charter Party disputes • Unsafe ports & berths • Due diligence • Navigation • Collisions • Groundings • Seamanship • ISM code • Hold cleanliness • Hatch covers • Cargo stowage & securing Ship operations: • Ship management • Ship performance • Seaworthiness • Passage planning • Fumigation • Liquefaction • Ship-handling • Weather routing • Containers Bulk cargoes: coal, concentrates, grain, ore, fertilizer, steel, timber, rice, sugar, DRI, fines, scrap, cement, sulphur Tankers: crude oil,...

Specialist areas of expertise: • Lifts • Escalators • Cable cars • Funiculars • Window cleaning apparatus • General lifting & handling plant • Rent reviews • Experienced in: • Personal injury & fatality investigations • Disputes over suitability & standards of workmanship • Professional negligence • Giving evidence in court Membership of professional bodies • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (Past Chairman of Lift Committee) • International Association of Elevator Engineers • Fellow of the Institute...

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.