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Engineering for Safety

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Who we are

The main SRG Board is supported by four working groups:

What we do 

The Engineering for Safety Working Group:

  • Considers how the functional safety of physical systems can be designed and assured.
  • Develops and publicises a programme of activities in support of their objectives.

The working group leader reports progress to the quarterly SRG Committee.

Objectives

  • Identify and publicise good practice relating to the design and assurance of functional safety for physical systems.
  • Review and comment on regulations, standards, guidance and procedures relevant to functional and system safety.
  • Actively promote improvements in system safety through the facilitation of conferences.
  • Identify and sponsor appropriate guidance documents to support good practice and regulatory compliance.

Membership

Other members will be co-opted as appropriate.

Steve Hillier - Chair

Pete Stewart - Immediate Past Chair


Mark Ashenden

Mark AshendenSenior Technical Specialist in Safety & Reliability, Rolls-Royce

Mark Ashenden is a Senior Technical Specialist in Safety & Reliability. He has worked at Rolls-Royce for over 30 years with more than 25 of them in the Safety & Reliability discipline as an analyst, team lead or skill owner. He describes himself as a “Professional Pessimist!”.

Mark’s academic qualifications include a Physics degree from Imperial College and an Master’s degree in system Operational Effectiveness from Exeter University. Mark is also a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of both the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Safety and Reliability Society.

Vaughan Cole

Retired

Vaughan, over a period of twenty years, held senior mechanical engineering positions in Health and Safety Executive. He was a petroleum specialist in HSE, Offshore Division, a Principal Specialist Inspector in Railway Division and a Principal Specialist Inspector in Field Operations Division.

Vaughan has assessed safety reports or safety cases in all three Divisions for offshore, rail and COMAH activities. In addition, prior to joining HSE, he was employed by CEGB for ten years in the assessment of Nuclear safety reports or cases.

Vaughan’s earlier responsibilities, with British Rail, related to all aspects of railway mechanical and electrical engineering and with BOC, low temperature development projects. In addition, with CEGB, he was employed on coal and oil fired power stations and was responsible for conventional plant quality and timely delivery at contractors works.

John Jost

Phillip Mallin

Keith Miller

Harry Moss

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Richard Wilson

 

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