Ms Trimble in ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH
Health and safety auditing, management, documentation investigation and law • Health and safety in healthcare, hospitals, care support, education, mental health, special education, local authorities, residential homes, warehousing • Stress, violence and aggression, assaults, pedestrian/vehicle segregation, warehouse operations, swimming pools, schools, leisure centres, grounds maintenance, transport
Mr Wormald in KINGSWOOD
We accept instructions from prosecutors, appellants, defendants and claimants in criminal and civil work on most health and safety topics. Our expertise extends to manufacturing and service industries, construction, commercial, offices, education, entertainment, local government, health services, retail, fairgrounds, public works, airports, Crown services and utilities. Topics include: • Work at height • Systems of work • Safety documentation • Risk assessment • Guarding of machinery • Works transport • Lifting operations •...
Mr Humberstone in TODMORDEN
Specialist assessment & CPR 35 compliant reports (CUBS accredited since 2012) for assistive technology • Bespoke IT solutions (e.g. switch, voice or eye gaze control) • Assistive technology from cause & effect to full home environmental control & multimedia distribution systems • AAC (communication aids) • Equipment training & rehabilitation with extensive experience of using technology as a communication therapist • Specialist areas: brain & spinal injury • Fully independent with no commercial interests • Project management...
Mr Smith in BIRMINGHAM
Accident investigation: • Industry & industrial premises • Construction & building • Docks • Agriculture • Transport & road traffic, highways • Offices & shops • Hospitals & nursing homes • Education • Sport & leisure • Offshore oil & gas • Occupational health & safety: • Noise-induced hearing loss (deafness) • Industrial diseases, including dermatitis • Respiratory illness, including asthma • Ergonomics & manual handling • Work-related upper limb disorder (RSI) • Slipping & tripping accidents • Ladders & scaffolding • Mechanical engineering: •...
Hughes in CARLISLE
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.
Mr Evans in MANCHESTER
31 years of experience in: • Asbestos consultancy, training and project management • Expert witness for asbestos • Health and safety compliance auditing • Health and safety management and risk assessment • Occupational hygiene consulting • Fire risk assessment
Eur Ing Cunliffe in GRIMSBY
My past career has included 8 years in industry & 7 years as a Specialist Inspector of the HSE where my specialism was process safety & flammable materials. I can therefore accept instruction in most cases where health & safety legislation is concerned, i.e. storage, use & processing of flammable materials, etc.
Mr Garry in NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Accident investigation: • Industry & industrial premises • Construction & building • Docks • Agriculture • Transport & road traffic; highway • Offices & shops • Hospitals & nursing homes • Education • Sport & leisure • Domestic • Mechanical engineering: • Machinery defects & disputes • Cranes & lifting equipment • Papermaking machinery • Boiler plant & steam ancillaries • Mechanical handling equipment, including fork-lifts • Consumer product defects • Safety design • Machine tools • Manufacturing engineering & processes • Hydraulic engineering • Pneumatic...
Mr Watson in SOUTHAMPTON
I provide independent and objective expert witness services in Environmental Health, Occupational Hygiene, Health and Safety, and Fire Safety Risk assessment. I have worked in these areas since 1978 and have provided expert witness services since 1996. I am trained as an expert witness and have provided over a thousand reports for the court. I accept instructions as a Single Joint Expert and from solicitors acting on single instructions for claimants and defendants. I have given evidence in court on numerous...
Mr Tudor in BIRMINGHAM
Occupational health & safety • Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) • Noise surveys • Ergonomics & manual handling • Slipping accident investigation • Ladders & scaffolding • Cranes & lifting equipment • Play areas & equipment • Machine tools • Workshops • Machine guarding • Bearings • Consumer product defects • Consumer product safety • CE marking & product compliance • Helmets • Personal protective equipment (PPE) • Laser safety • Non-ionising radiation • Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) & electromagnetic interference (EMI)
Dr Purnell in ST ALBANS
Health risk assessment & control of hazards in the workplace • Occupational hygiene • Noise • Hand-arm vibration • COSHH • LEV • Personal protective equipment • Legionella risk assessment & control • Microbiological hazards Areas of expert witness work include: • Investigation of workplace accidents and environmental pollution incidents • Identification of causative factors in cases of occupational ill-health • Examination of work environments and equipment following failure and/or injury • Inspection of workplaces, processes...
Mr Theobald-Vega in NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Criminal and civil investigator and expert witness for accidents, asbestos, construction, universities and much more. • 10 years as HSE Inspector (undertaking prosecutions) • 13 years at Newcastle University - Head of Safety • Freelance since 2012 Multiple award winner from 2015 to 2023 • Lawyer Monthly Expert Witness awards annually since 2017 • Lawyer International - Legal 100 awards annually since 2018 and many more, see http://safety4hed.co.uk/awards/ Reports normally available in 3 weeks.
Mr Blenkharn in LONDON
Healthcare (clinical) waste microbiology • Healthcare (clinical) waste management & disposal • Environmental microbiology, with particular regard to waste disposal • Infection control • Device-related infection • Hospital ventilation • Hospital maintenance
Mr Walsh in LONDON
I entered the profession as a 5 years indentured student apprentice for domestic, commercial and industrial sectors for plumbing, drainage, water, gas, boiler oils, public health engineering, building services engineering from August 1964 and qualified as an Engineer in 1969. I continued my academic and practical training to complete my professional qualification when I was awarded my Council of Engineering Institutions (CEI) Chartered Engineer (CEng) status in 1983. I became an expert witness in 1984. I...
Dr Cox MBE in MORDEN
Expertise: • Safety • Accident investigation • Health & Safety at Work Act & Regulations • Personal injury • Fires • Explosions • Risk assessment • Safety management • Occupational accidents • Product safety • Dangerous goods • Falls • Mechanical or structural failure • Machinery Sectors: • Industrial • Construction • Mechanical • Electrical • Manufacturing • Factories • Oil • Gas • Offshore • Chemicals • Pipelines • Railways • Public transport • Ports & docks • Food • Retail • Leisure
Dr Cowley in ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH
Health & safety management systems • Organisational culture • Training & education • Incident investigation • Workplace traffic management • Machinery safety & guarding • Manual handling • Noise • Thermal comfort & stress • Confined space entry • COSHH assessments • Airborne contaminant control • Experienced in the assessment of requirement for, procurement, training, fitting, use, storage & maintenance of PPE & RPE • Exposure to hazardous substances • Asbestos exposure • Occupational hygiene
Mr Naylor in STOURBRIDGE
Construction safety • Occupational health & safety • Personal injury • Slips & trips • Manual handling • Accident investigations • Flooding damage • Geotechnical engineering • Foundations & earthworks • Embankments & cuttings • Soil & rock slope instability • Subsidence, settlement & heave • Treatment of mineworkings • Landfill engineering • Stabilisation works • Retaining walls • Ground improvement • Contamination • Drainage
Mr Williams in STOCKPORT
I have worked in an expert witness practice since the mid-1990s, initially on a part-time basis, in the area of noise and vibration, with a focus on occupational injuries such as NIHL, tinnitus, RSI, VWF and CTS. This involved site inspections, testing, computational analysis and report preparation. In 2016, the practice became a limited company and I became a full-time Director and Principal Consultant. I have since provided the courts with over 300 single joint expert witness reports, mainly in NIHL cases.
Mr Marmoy-Haynes in UPMINSTER
I accept instructions from defendants and claimants via solicitors on most health and safety topics. I have particular experience in health and safety legislation, fatal accident investigation, manufacturing, construction, banking, education, healthcare, charity, retail and pharmaceuticals. My skills include: risk assessment, training, work at height, fall prevention, safe systems of work, safety documentation and policies, fire safety and protection, COSHH, manual handling and work equipment.
Mr Hanna in BELFAST
Quality, Safety, Health, CDM, Environment, Sustainability, Security and Risk Consultant with a career in public and private organisations covering the construction, civil engineering, facility management, consultancy and insurance service sectors. Highly experienced in the following management standards: ESG, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, NSI Gold, SIA ACS, Construction Line, Safe Contractor, Safe T Cert, etc.
Mr King in AYLESFORD
Assisting with claims for damages following accidents or ill-health at work • Site inspections & witness statements, assessment of negligence & whether breaches of legislation have occurred • Advice on whether all reasonably practicable steps have been taken by a defendant employer • Interpretation of all occupational health & safety legislation & how this applies in any particular case
Mr Rai in BROMSGROVE
Very experienced practitioner specialising in health & safety/food safety matters since 1988, including 9 years as an enforcement officer • Particular areas of expertise include investigation of workplace injuries & fatalities, risk assessment, risk management & insurance-related matters • Further expertise as a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner with respect to food contamination, HACCP, food processing, alleged food poisoning & food-borne injury Author of Food Emergencies - A Practical Approach to...
Ms Coote in AYLESFORD
All areas of civil & criminal cases relating to occupational health, safety & welfare, for example: • Accident investigation • Occupier liability • WRULD cases/RSI • Premises health & safety issues causing illness, injury, etc. • Risk assessment • Training, competence & development • Failure in management systems Completed CIM Diploma in Professional Marketing Level 6
Mrs McNeill in GLASGOW
Health & safety • Mechanical engineering design • Investigation of industrial accidents, personal injuries & fatalities • Occupational diseases (asbestos, noise, hand-arm vibration) • Investigations of fire & explosions • Investigation of defective engineering design & plant mal-performance • Risk assessments • PPE • Safe systems of work • Legionnaires disease