RIFA Committee 2009-2010

RIFA Committee 2009-2010

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RIFA Committee

Executive Committee

Chairperson: Paul Bryant

Paul is both a Chartered Fire Engineer and Chartered Electrical Engineer. He also has a Masters Degree in Business Administration. He started his career with the Fire Offices’ Committee in 1981, where he was involved with the approval of fire detection systems. When the company became the Loss Prevention Council in 1985, Paul took on a more high profile role; he was involved in the creation of standards and was the UK Insurance representative in Europe and internationally on fire detection and alarm systems. Paul joined London Underground in 1993 as Head of the Fire Engineering Department and oversaw a range of large and complex projects. He was appointed as Audit Project Manager for London Underground’s multi-million pound Section 12 project.

Paul formed Kingfell in 1995 and has built it up from a one person fire consultancy into a multi-million pound turnover organization specializing in fire, risk and crisis control. He is currently the Company Chairman.

He has been Chairman of British Standard Committee FSH 12/4 Actuation of Fire Protection for almost 20 years, and was the author of BS 7974 PD4 Fire Safety Engineering Detection of Fire and Activation of Fire Protection Systems and, more recently, British Standard Specification PAS 911 covering fire strategies. As well as leading the business, Paul still plays an active role as Principal Consultant for Kingfell Consulting.

Vice Chair: James Holland

James is the Head of Fire Safety Policy for Network Rail where he is responsible for fire safety compliance across the whole of the Network Rail property portfolio.

James is a Chartered Fire Engineer and a Chartered Member of IOSH he served for 31 years in the London Fire Brigade and was Fire Safety Manger for London Underground Ltd.

Secretary: David Rayworth

David is a Fire Safety Engineer for Network Rail where he is responsible for Kent and Sussex Routes. This includes interfacing with the Shard of Glass and Cannon Place projects which are being constructed whilst keeing the operational railway in full working order.David is undertaking his B Eng (Hons) Fire Engineering at UCLAN.

Previously David was Assistant Station Manager at Liverpool Street Railway Station, Britains busiest sub-surface railway station and various other operational roles within the Railway.

Treasurer: Peter Stephenson

Peter is the Principal Fire Safety Engineer at Kingfell Consulting a division of Kingfell Plc. Kingfell provide a range of services to the mass transit, Heritage and commercial sectors including fire strategy development, fire and evacuation modelling, fire system design and fire risk assessment. Kingfell also provide fire system maintenace and installation services and more recently risk and crisis management.

Peter has previously worked in fire safety teams for Mott MacDonald, Network Rail and the Royal Berkshire Fire & Rescue Service.

Committee Members:

Andrew James

Andy works for Approved Inspector Services. Approved Inspectors provide Building Control in place of the local Councils when appointed by the Developer. AIS also provide Assurance Services to the Rail industry.

Andy is a Chartered Fire Engineer and has worked for London Underground, BRE and the Loss Prevention Council.

Martin Hadaway

Martin is the Fire Safety Manager for Eurostar (UK) Ltd and as such responsible for fire safety issues within premises used by Eurostar employees within the UK, (this excludes rolling stock but involvement and advice to train crews is expected) he has been with Eurostar since March 2007.

Martin served with Kent Fire and Rescue Service for 35 years prior to joining the company, his experience with the Fire Service was generally as an inspecting/enforcement officer but as a Station Manager was part of the Fire Investigation Team for the County and duties included overseeing a number of Part-time sections as a supervisory officer.

Brian MacLean

Brian served his apprenticeship with British Rail as an electrician and later worked as an elevator engineer in South Africa. He joined the Fire & Rescue service and served as a Sub-Officer before joining the British Rail Fire organisation shortly after the Kings Cross tragedy.

Brian is now the professional Head of Fire safety for First Scotrail and covers the length and breadth of Scotland, dealing with all matters relating to Fire safety.

Phil Mather

Phil works for Metronet Rail as Chief Engineer (FIRE) – currently engaged in receiving assurance from Station Delivery Projects and monitoring and ensuring that projects are successfully handed over to LU in accordance with all LU & Metronet Rail Standards and responsible for assisting with the preparation and submission of “Approval Submissions” and liaising with the LFEPA Railway Projects Group.

In his former life, Phil spent 24 years in local authority Fire Service culminating with a three year secondment to the Fire Service College as a Course Director and instructor with the Fire Prevention faculty, followed by 18 years experience with London Underground and Metronet Rail as a Fire Precautions Engineer rising to his current position.

Peter Scott

Over 25 years experinace within the Fire industry, raising through the ranks to the post of Fire Safety Manager for a district which involved in organising and running Fire Safety departments. Technical and Fire Safey qualifications Graduate I Fire E, Morton in Marsh Fire College and West Yorkshire Fire Brigade courses etc. Worked for Railtrack as a Fire Safety Manager ECML, left to work for Interfire consultancy company looking after the rail industry customers/contracts which cover several different disiplines with the field of fire such as assessments, training, fire extinguisher service and alarms.

Ross Thornton

Ross is currently the Fire Safety & Emergency Planning Manager for Southern Railway/ Gatwick Express (formerly South Central) which operates train services on the London, Sussex and South Coast routes, possibly the UK’s busiest commuter network.
Ross has served as an operational fire fighter, Station Officer/ Duty Fire Protection Manager with the British Airways Fire Service at Heathrow & Gatwick Airports for 19 years, and has held positions with various transport related industries and accumulated some 30 years of experience in the field of Fire Safety management.

Since joining Southern in June 2004 Ross has developed strong working relationships with the Network Rail Fire Engineering department and worked in partnership with them in a continuous improvement strategy on fire safety standards on Southern’s network.
Ross’s work with Fire Authorities and Industry security forces has reduced acts of Arson, on the Southern network, both in stations and on trains to almost negligible levels recording only one minor incident in the last 18 months.

Nicole Hoffman

Nicole is a Technical Director of Kingfell, London. She has more than 20 years experience in fire safety engineering, and for more than 10 years has been primarily involved with the development of fire strategies within the railway industry for both stations and tunnels; in the UK and International.

She obtained a PhD for her CFD modelling of fire and sprinkler interaction, and has a particular interest in the analysis of smoke movement. As one of the originators of the evacuation modelling package STEPS, she also has a special interest in evacuation behaviour and its modelling

Peter Haines

Peter works for Metronet Rail Ltd. Metronet is involved in the modernisation projects for London Underground. It is also responsible for the maintenance of all disciplines of station systems and civils. Metronet provides Assurance Services to London Underground.

Peter is a member of the IFPO and has worked for Metronet/London Underground since 1990 and has been involved with all disciplines of Fire Engineering installed on the Underground network since “Kings Cross”. Prior to that, he worked for various contractors within the Fire Industry since the early 70’s.

Jacquline McDonagh

Jacqueline works for Approved Inspector Services as a Building Control/Fire Safety Surveyor for just over 2 years. Approved Inspectors provide Building Control in place of the local Councils when appointed by the Developer. AIS also provide Assurance Services to the Rail industry.

Previously to this Jacqueline worked as a Senior Fire Engineer for nearly 3 years after her MSc with JGA Fire Consultants and subsequent to this she spent nearly a year working as a Building Control Officer for Wandsworth Council.

Jacqueline has a BSc in Fire Technology & MSc in Fire Engineering, and is currently working towards becoming a full Member of the Institute of Fire Engineers (IFE) and a chartered engineer (CEng)

Tony Cash

Tony Cash is Lead Fire Safety Engineer for the Projects Directorate of London Underground. A fire and transport safety professional, with broad experience gained from 25 years working in a wide range of industries including recreational and public transport, aviation, oil, petrochemical, marine and local authority environments, Tony has considerable experience in the development and maintenance of requirements related to product certification and test, fire safety, risk assessments and emergency planning.

Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor is a Senior Fire Engineer within WSP Fire Engineering, who are part of WSP Group plc and are actively involved in delivering support to a wide range of projects across the rail sector. WSP are able to provide Fire strategy advice from concept through to detailed design; Computational analysis including: Fire/smoke/structural and evacuation modelling; Construction and post construction fire safety support; Fire Risk Analysis/Assessments.

Chris previously worked for Tubelines on a variety of fire safety schemes on the London Underground network. Chris was also involved with developing the risk based approach to fire safety on the London Underground for the Step Free Access programme, which is part of the wider initiative ‘Unlocking London For All’.