Safety, Health and Environment SHE2012 - Energy Networks ...

07Safety,Health andEnvironmentSHE2012Dr Neil DaviesMedical Adviser (Nuclear),EDF EnergyNeil is an occupational physician whohas spent most of his medical careerin the energy industry, starting off asa Medical Adviser with Mobil Oil in theUK with some overseas and offshoreassignments. After 8 years he joined theCEGB as an Area Medical Officer andsince then he has had 25 years in theelectricity generating sector, primarilynuclear focussed with Nuclear Electric andMagnox, his last appointment until retiringin 2011 being the Chief Medical Officerof British Energy. He now works part timeas Medical Adviser to EDF Energy NuclearGeneration in Barnwood. His mainoccupational health interests are in fitnessfor duty in safety critical environments,health effects of ionising and non ionisingradiations and drugs and alcohol at work.He is a Fellow of the Faculty of OccupationalMedicine and served 6 years as an ordinaryboard member. He was a trustee of theBritish Occupational Health ResearchFoundation charity for 15 years and isa co author of the FOM publication‘Guidance on alcohol and drug misusein the Workplace’. He has also served aterm as Chair of the Occupational HealthAdvisory Group and has been a memberof the Compensation Scheme Council forradiation linked diseases and its technicalworking party, the BMA occupational healthcommittee and various epidemiologyresearch steering groups.Robert DavisGroup CEO, EA Technology GroupRobert is Group Chief Executive Officerof EA Technology Group, a fast growingtechnology company operating in thepower engineering sector. Doubling in sizein the last five years, the company currentlyemploys 211 staff. The majority of theseoperate within Capenhurst in Cheshire,with a growing proportion working fromoffices in Shanghai, Abu Dhabi, Brisbane,Florida and Singapore. Robert sits on theCheshire & Warrington Local EnterprisePartnership Board and holds responsibilityfor Start Up Support and Access to Finance.David GartsideBoard Member,Health and Safety ExecutiveAppointed to the Board of the Health& Safety Executive in April 2008,David has an engineering andmanufacturing background.With an engineering science degree fromOxford, he worked for consulting engineersand contractors on bridge design andconstruction, before joining ICI (one ofthe forerunners of AstraZeneca) in 1977.A variety of engineering roles followedbefore a move into manufacturingmanagement in 1987.Appointed Works Manager in Bristolin 1989, David subsequently filledsimilar roles for ICI, and post-demerger,Zeneca, at Grangemouth (1992) andMacclesfield (1995).He was Head of UK Operations forAstraZeneca until 2005, when he waspromoted to Vice-President, SafetyHealth & Environment for AstraZeneca.Ceri JonesInstitute of Work,Health and Organisations,University of NottinghamCeri is an Applied Safety Psychologistand Researcher at the Institute of Work,Health & Organisations, University ofNottingham. She obtained her BSc fromLoughborough University and obtained herMSc in Occupational Psychology from theUniversity of Leicester, where she alsogained certificates of competency inPsychometric Testing (Level A and B).While at the Institute of Work Healthand Organisations (IWHO) she has beenconducting applied research measuringthe safety culture of large international highhazard organisations. This research hasfocused on measuring the safety cultureof the organisations and designing andimplementing initiatives to promote andimprove safety performance. She is alsoinvolved with the European Agency forSafety and Health at Work where hermain role is collecting case studies of bestpractice in Occupational Safety and Health.Additionally she runs tutorials and seminarswith the Masters students and has workedas a part-time research assistant in theSchool of Nursing, where she was involvedin designing online training programs toeducate and encourage participation inphysical activity.In her previous role, she was a consultantin a consultancy specialising in promotingwell-being in the workplace. This roleinvolved identifying issues withinorganisations in a number of differentindustrial sectors, and assisting in thedesign and delivery of bespoke solutionsto assist organisations in reducingabsenteeism, stress and turnover,and increasing employee engagement.She was also responsible for managingthe day-to-day activities of these projects,in terms of timescales and key deliverables.1200303_ENA_SHE_programme_A4_AW.indd 7 24/04/2012 13:25