HEALTH AND SAFETY - BIOGRAPHIES

Lisa C. Mallon - Lisa Mallon is a Health and Safety professional with a Masters Degree in Safety and Environmental Management in addition to a Degree in Engineering. Lisa’s career has included roles within Manufacturing, Health & Safety Consultancy, Energy and Electricity Industries.

Lisa is currently a Senior Health and Safety Advisor for ScottishPower Energy Wholesale and has responsibility for a range of wind farm projects through development and construction. Her role also has an advisory remit for a generation portfolio that includes operational coal, gas and hydroelectric power stations.

For the last 5 years, Lisa’s role has primarily been in support of the Renewables sector including on/off-shore wind and hydroelectric power. For project work under the application of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations, Lisa has had involvement from the perspective of the Client, Contractor, Planning Supervisor and Consultant.

Lisa is a Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (MIOSH) and a Member of the Association of Project Safety (MaPS).

Dr Helen Bolt, Director, Helacol Consultants Ltd. 

Dr Helen Bolt is a chartered civil engineer and health and safety specialist with a background as a structural designer in the assessment and management of facilities’ integrity as a Director of BOMEL Limited. Specific experience has been derived in the offshore oil & gas industry where Helen has led a combined engineering and human factors team addressing occupational and major hazards risks. Now, as a director of specialist consultants Helacol Consultants Limited, Helen provides support to BOMEL in operating the BWEA health and safety database and generating and disseminating lessons learned to member companies. Helen sits on the BWEA health and safety steering group and is currently coordinating an update to the health & safety wind energy industry guidelines to be issued in 2007.  She is also working with the marine renewables team on new health & safety guidelines.

Bernard Warden
HM Principal Inspector of Health and Safety

Principal Inspector of the HSE group that covers construction and asbestos removal in the West and North of Scotland.  I have been with HSE since 1992 covering general manufacturing, food and gas for my first 4 years from the Worcester office before moving to Glasgow in 1996 since when I have worked in Construction related groups.  Prior to joining HSE I worked as a design engineer in the British and German automotive industries.  My interest in wind energy stems from the fact that my team have covered the development of a large percentage of the sites already operating in the UK.    

Graeme Cooper - BWEA - Head of Grid, Health & Safety and Technical Affairs

Graeme has been with the BWEA since November 2006. Graeme’s background is in the cellular telecoms industry, where he spent 10 years working on all aspects of network rollout and project managing. This ranged from network planning, land acquisition, engineering design, local authority planning, site build, integration and commissioning, upgrading and grid connections. For the last two and a half years he worked at NGW (the wireless arm of National Grid) in the role of National Power Group Manager, where he was responsible for all grid connections to mobile phone base stations and the utilisation of NG Pylons in remote locations for telecoms use.

Graeme’s view is that a lot of his experience is directly transferable to the wind energy business and that indeed, wind now is where telecoms was 10-12 years ago, and having overseen much of that development, he can bring useful ideas and experience to help further the wind and marine renewables sector.

Graeme is focusing on several key issues over the coming months. He will begin with a review and refocus to ensure that BWEA does the best it can for its members, and top of that list will be revitalising the Grid Group and supporting the SRF in Scotland, Wales Grid Group and Offshore Grid group. Also on the agenda will be lobbying government to provide more tools for the industry to help deliver on the promises that government has made on carbon reduction; tackling the onshore grid queue and how to improve the speed to market for onshore grid connections; offshore connections and regulation and responding to the latest round of consultations; working to ensure the right result on transmission capacity with a particular focus on the Beauly–Denny link, as this is absolutely key to a number of projects. The UK wind industry is a world leader in standard setting and regulation of Health and Safety, and Graeme will be focussing on the CDM2007 and Work at Height impacts to the industry and will be driving forward on the production of marine renewable best practice H&S guidelines. Graeme will also continue BWEA’s excellent track record in this area, encouraging the sharing of lessons learnt and a coordinated approach.