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08Safety,Health andEnvironmentSHE2012SHE2012 speaker andchair biographiescontinuedPeter J Kelly MBPsS, MSc, BScHigher Psychologist,Health and Safety ExecutivePeter works for the Health and SafetyExecutive in the Ergonomics, HumanFactors, and Psychology team within theField Operations Division. He is employedas a Psychologist with speciality inoccupational health. He has beenpart of the small team of psychologistinvolved from the beginning in developingthe scientific knowledge base for themanagement standards approach totackling work related stress in the UnitedKingdom and is a co – author on paperspublished on the management standards.He in addition provides scientific supportin relation to mental health promotion andwellbeing in work for the Health SafetyExecutive and investigates Human factorissues in the workplace. He undertakespresentation to a wide body of audienceson the prevention of work related stress,mental and physical well being. He has satas a co-opted expert on National Instituteof Clinical Excellence Review of mentalhealth promotion within the workplaceand on the Department for Health’s UnitedKingdom SHIFT Expert review panel onworkplace mental health guidance.Jim LawlessTaming TigersJim is founder and CEO of Taming Tigers,which works with a wide variety of bluechip clients to establish aligned goalsthroughout the organisation, highperforming teams and long term changein culture, mindset and performance.Jim was elected a fellow of the RoyalSociety for the Arts in 2008 in recognitionof his business writing and is the authorof the book ‘Taming Tigers’ (Virgin Books).He qualified as a solicitor in 1994,working in the City and in a major ITcompany before founding TamingTigers (then called “Optimise”) in 1999.He is one of the most popular inspirationalspeakers in Europe today and theonly authority on business change andpersonal development to have put hislife on the line to prove his approach.In August 2010, to test new TamingTigers theories around mental toughness,he became Britain’s Deepest Freediver,the first Briton to dive below the magic100m barrier on a single breath of air.In 2003, in response to an audiencechallenge, he proved his Ten Rules forTaming Tigers by becoming a jockey in12 months. At the outset he was 3 stone(20kg) too heavy and could not ridea horse.Andy Lowrey MSc BSc (Hons)MIET MIEHFNational Air Traffic ServicesAndy has worked in the aviation industryfor over twenty five years. Starting in militaryaviation and then engineering consultancy,he joined NATS to work on the SwanwickNew En-route Centre project in 2001.At NATS he has provided Human Factorsassurance at numerous control centresand airfields, and is currently working onprojects in Eastern Europe, the MiddleEast and throughout the UK.He is responsible for coordinating HumanFactors expertise to all airports whereNATS provides an air traffic service.These include most of the UK’smajor airports, such as Heathrow,Gatwick, Manchester and Glasgow.Dr John McCaulChief Medical Officer ofRWE npowerAfter a few years in hospital medicine,he moved to a training post in occupationalmedicine at Ford Motor Company in thedays when Dagenham alone employed22,000 people and made completecars – in his time the Fiesta, Cortina andSierra. After completing his training, hestayed with Ford for 9 years and duringthis time he was also the Secretary of theSociety of Occupational Medicine. He thenmoved to the electricity sector to join thenewly formed National Power Company.Within three years he was their ChiefMedical Officer heading up theoccupational health service and, in effect,he has remained there although his CVwould say he was then CMO of Innogy,RWE Innogy and finally RWE npower!John’s main interests in occupationalmedicine are the collection of data (on bothprocess and outcome) which he believesis the secret to justifiying the practice ofoccupational health), the health risks ofburning biomass, EMF and mental health.Peter McCormickPowering ImprovementCoordinator, EnergyNetworks AssociationPeter is an Electricity Supply Industrytrained engineer with over 30 yearsexperience in the operation, constructionand maintenance of electricity distributionnetworks. Peter has held progressivelysenior management posts with CE Electric(now Northern Powergrid) and itspredecessor companies.He was Director of Group Health Safetyand Environment for CE Electric UK andalso Chair of both National HESAC andENA’s Safety, Health and EnvironmentCommittee before his retirement in 2011.Since June 2011 he has been providingleadership to the industry’s PoweringImprovement strategy.1200303_ENA_SHE_programme_A4_AW.indd 8 24/04/2012 13:25
09Safety,Health andEnvironmentSHE2012Kieran McKenna, MED, BE, MSc,C EngDirector of Group Health & Safety,PM GroupKieran has over twenty years industryexperience in senior environmentalhealth and safety managementroles where regional managementresponsibilities have spanned 6 time zonesand over 20 different national languagesacross 50 different locations. Prior tojoining PM Group, Kieran held seniorregional management EHS positionswithin multinational organisations in thepharmaceutical, food and semiconductormanufacturing sectors. Areas ofexpertise include the development andimplementation of construction projectEHS management systems and associatedorganisational structures for large scalecomplex projects within multi-culturalenvironments. Kieran holds a primarydegree in mechanical engineeringand master degrees in bothengineering design and occupationalhealth and safety management.Ed MitchellDirector of Environment andBusiness, Environment AgencyEd is Director of Environment andBusiness. He leads Environment Agencypolicy on water, regulation, climate change,sustainable development, land and thenatural environment.Ed has been with the Environment Agencysince December 2007. Previously hewas Special Advisor to the Rt. Hon.Margaret Beckett, MP, Foreign Secretaryand Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs.Prior to that, the majority of Ed’s careerhas been in the private sector. He wasDirector of Environment and CorporateResponsibility at RWE Thames Water,worked in environmental managementfor GlaxoSmithKline and spent timein consultancy.Ed is a non-executive Director forWater and Sanitation for the Urban Poor,a not-for-profit company he helped set upwhich provides water services to peopleliving in slums in the developing world.Liam O’SullivanProgramme Director – Low CarbonLondon, UK Power NetworksLiam is currently the TransmissionConstruction Director & EngineeringManager responsible for the design anddelivery, commercial, health and safetyaspects of a multi-million (c. £200m)multi – disciplined engineering project toconstruct and operate the electricitytransmission infrastructure for the London2012 Olympic Games.The role involves the successfulmanagement and delivery of a numberof key organisations, interfaces andskills across a range of direct andcontract staff; engineering and specialistservices consultants; contractors,equipment suppliers, internal andexternal stakeholders.The works include the design,procurement, construction, commissioningand energisation of electricity transmissionassets and infrastructure including: theconstruction of deep underground tunnelsand substation buildings; substations& equipment to 132kV (132,000 volts)sourced from the four ‘corners’ of the globe– for example large power transformers asfar as Australia; switchgear from Germany;power cables from France.It is as diverse as it is developing;and is truly challenging, exciting andextremely fulfilling.Liam studied and read for a Bachelorof Engineering (Hons) Degreein Engineering and having obtained a1st Class Honours degree, he has workedin the UK power industry, in the Londonregion, since 1997; and has fulfilled avariety of design, project engineeringand management roles on a numberof diverse and multi-million poundinfrastructure projects.He is a member of the IET (Institution ofEngineering & Technology), and of theAPM (Association of Project Management),and lead the team in winning the APM’sProject of the Year Award 2009 and theRIBA Building of the Year Award Categoryfor Industrial & Commercial Building of theYear 2010; the Brick Awards and one totwo other accolades, most recently theODA’s Health & Safety Manager of theYear 2010. He was also shortlisted to thelast 3 for the APM’s Project Manager ofthe Year Award.....David PorterChief Executive, Energy UKDavid began his career in localgovernment. He then ran businesses ofhis own, including a successful restaurant.He was an adviser to the Associationfrom 1987 and became its ChiefExecutive in 1991 (until 1995 it hadbeen the Association of IndependentElectricity Producers).He has served on:> > the Executive Committee of theElectricity Pool of England & Wales;> > the government’s Renewable EnergyAdvisory Committee;> > the government’s ‘Foresight EnergyFutures Task Force’ and> > he was President of the UK’s‘Energy Industries Club’ 2003 – 2005.He is currently:> > on the Board of the Europeanelectricity body ‘Eurelectric’;> > Chairman of the Energy Policy &Generation Committee of Eurelectric;> > a Director of the UK ParliamentaryRenewable and Sustainable EnergyGroup (‘PRASEG’);> > a member of the Coal Forum and> > Chairman of the Future GenerationGroup of the Coal Forum.David is an Honorary Fellow of theEnergy Institute.In 2007, he was appointed OBE byHer Majesty the Queen, for servicesto the Power Generation Industry.In 2011, he was named Industry Champion2011, by Utility Week, at the Utility IndustryAchievement Awards.1200303_ENA_SHE_programme_A4_AW.indd 9 24/04/2012 13:25
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