Specialisms:
Health, safety and technical standards risk assessment and projects
Worldwide standards compliance determination & testing
Practical behaviour of materials, components & systems
Mechanical, electrical & chemical forensic investigation
Forensic case investigation; international health & safety technical assessments, risk & hazard analysis within multi-disciplinary teams of local surveyors, architects and lawyers; international technical assessor appointments to assist local Courts. In these, my specialist knowledge and experience has been and continues to be applied to across a wide spectrum of cases and projects including:
Home, work, travel, holiday, leisure and industrial fire and incident safety practice and reconstruction
Consumer safety, protection and trading standards issues
Municipal engineering and tourism technical certification
Fracture mechanics of glass incl. human impact
Pedestrian motion, slip & friction on stairs and floors
Product and material failure patterns
Fall dynamics of objects and people in air and water
Design & risk assessment of leisure facilities and equipment
Product exposure to environmental factors
Vehicle safety systems incl. airbags & belt pre-tensioners
Vehicle forensic examination and collision dynamics
Vehicle design, construction and systems
Building services system safety & indoor pollutant poisoning
Domestic & industrial products & appliances, equipment & process design, construction & use, modes of failure
Leisure & entertainment industry equipment & systems defects & investigations of alleged interference
Heating, ventilation, air conditioning & refrigeration systems
Lighting external and internal
Fire scene investigation, reconstruction & interpretation
Electrical & electronic system fault diagnosis
Mechanical & electrical product liability testing
Bio-mechanical force studies