Andy is both a Fellow Member of IIRSM and a chartered safety practitioner (CMIOSH). He also holds Membership of the Institute of Industrial Accident Investigators (MIIAI); Membership of the Institute of Leadership (MIoL); and is accredited as a health & safety consultant with the UK Occupational Safety & Health Consultants Register (OSHCR). He now specialises in crisis management – from both the consultancy and training perspectives.
His interest in crisis management stems from his previous 12-year career with the NHS Ambulance Service. During that time he served not only as an emergency technician but also as a control room officer – so he’s seen, and managed, real emergencies close up. Indeed, during his service he was twice commended by his Chief Officer for his work at serious road traffic accidents (one of which, sadly, involved a fatality).
This experience gained during service with the NHS Ambulance Service proved invaluable when he was commissioned by the Irish Ambulance Service College in Dublin to design, and then present, courses on critical decision making for their senior officers and paramedics.
He was extremely pleased to be asked to join The Protect Alliance (UK) as one of its first members. As such he will specialise in crisis management, advising TPA (UK) clients both on the resilience of their current crisis management systems and on the development of new processes, in line with the international crisis management standard ISO 22361:2022.
On behalf of The Protect Alliance (UK) he gave a presentation to attendees at the Fareham Business Expo in February 2025 entitled “Incident Management – why do you need a plan?” A video of this presentation can be seen below:
Videos of some of the other presentations which Andy as given (by invitation) to professional groups in the UK, Europe and the Middle East can be seen via the following links:
- “Critical thinking: decision making in times of crisis”
- “The role of senior management in the incident investigation process”
In 2022 he was invited to be a guest speaker at the IXth International Scientific and Practical Conference on Health & Safety. The goal of this prestigious online conference, which was hosted from Warsaw, was to promote the modern European approach to safety management within Ukraine organisations.