Agron Deliu trained as a Chemist who first worked for the Institute of Public Health Tirana Albania, then moved to a number of organisations as a chemist and then back to the Institute of Public Health Tirana Albania, as a Specialist in Air Monitoring and also as the President of the Institute of Environmental Studies. He served as a local coordinator in Albania for the joint programme “Training development workshop on environmental impact assessment” with the Environmental Impact Centre of Manchester University, Tirana. He provided technical expertise in air quality surveys in Albania for the UNEP Chemicals – Geneva. He trained Kosovo scientists in ‘The Monitoring and Management of Environmental Air’, and ‘The Main Directions of Solid Urban Waste Management. He successfully completed an Environmental Impact Assessment for urban waste management in the Korca region as well as for a second cement kiln at Fushe Kruja. He was appointed by the Albanian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Environment as a member of the technical tem to prepare new norms on environmental air quality in Albania, which were approved in December 2003.
John Mclellan started his professional career in the UK Police service and rapidly became a sergeant. He was then selected to go to Kosovo to train their police force, where he trained over 2500 police officers to form the building blocks for the Kosovo Police Service. From there he moved on to provide specialist security management and consultancy work in six different countries including East Timor, Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan Republic. During his career he demonstrated his ability to collect information and analyse it to arrive at effective workable solutions. His experience includes being a Six Sigma Champion in the investigation of crimes as a police officer, as well as an industrial security manager, collecting evidence suitable to bring about prosecutions. He has developed skills in working with different cultures and languages, paying meticulous attention to detail. Within all the industries and countries he worked, he brought about considerable savings or the cultural changes that were required. He has considerable experience in collecting evidence during investigations and prosecutions in a number of different courts, including the United Nations Tribunal and has trained others to be able to collect data suitable for prosecutions or Tribunals.
Mike Selway, with an honours degree in chemical engineering has been involved in safety since 1975 when he began work as a factory inspector for the Health & Safety Executive in the UK. He then joined Coles Cranes as the Safety Officer for their site in Sunderland where it employed about 2100 employees. He then moved on to be the Safety Officer for the Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority in Liverpool, which employed over 5000 people in running and maintaining both buses and ferries throughout Merseyside. He then moved on to join the UKAEA in 1985, working in the Major Hazards Section where he chaired over a hundred HAZOP studies in a complete cross-section of industries and now runs Training Courses for HAZOP Chairmen. He later became the Team Leader of the Fire & Explosions Section, where his work has involved interpreting fire legislation, undertaking fire audits, carrying out quantified fire risk assessments and working on the consequences of fires.
Dr Frank Allan started his career as a manager at Turner and Newall then moved into the Nuclear sector to manage nuclear reactors for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and then moved into regulating nuclear reactor safety for the UKAEA. He then became involved at a senior level in the Safety Management of plant and operations for the UKAEA, AEA Technology and the MoD nuclear plant. As a result he became an effective member of the UKAEA and AWE nuclear safety committees OECD-NEA’s Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations. He was a consultant to the National Audit Office on safety and risk management in operations and procurement. He was one of the key members of the management team instrumental in achieving the cultural changes needed for the successful privatisation of the UKAEA to AEA Technology.
Dr Ian Dunbar having completed his PhD worked as a researcher and then joined the UKAEA as a Senior Scientific Officer. Within the UKEA he became the specialist in modelling Aerosol behaviour and developed mathematical modelling and represented the UK Department of Energy in a number of International Committees. He later prepared the Best Practicable Environmental Option for the use of chemical waste in cement kilns. He then moved on to carryout Business Risk Assessments for a Varity of customers including HSBC, Defra, the National Audit Office, the Highway Agency, and London Underground. He completed very high profile risk models including a Societal Concern Model for the HSE, TSE Strain Typing, Assessment of Control Measures in the 2001 FMD Epidemic, The Role of Badgers in the Transmission of Bovine TB, Risk Framework and Risk Modelling.
Dr Stephen Pathmarajah started his career as an engineer in the UK and worked in several different companies and gained experience over a wide range of engineering fields. He joined the UKAEA as senior safety engineer and when it was privatised to AEA Technology he became the business manger to develop a consultancy business providing Health, Safety and Environmental consultancy to the UK chemical industry. As a consultant he provided business risk assessment consultancy for a number of high profile companies. One of them was able to make savings in the order of £6M in their operation. He also completed a comprehensive business risk assessment for the Chief Executive of AEA Technology to remodel the business from a research organisation to a private company. They achieved successful privatisation and increased the share price from £2.5 at launch, to £12.00 within a year. He has developed and managed the implementation of ISO 14001 for a cement manufacture in the in a record time of three months and then repeated the same achievement in Albania.
Professor Baljinder Kandola having completed her PhD, joined the University of Bolton as a research fellow. Her work was recognised and she then become a lecturer and later was invited to the chair to be the Professor in the Fire Chemistry department.
She has published a number of research articles in her field of Fire Safety and also manages a number of researchers at the university. Her research interest includes
· Fire and mechanical performance evaluation of structural composites using small and medium scale testing equipment.
· Numerical modelling of heat and mass transfer in polymers and composites during combustion and combustion induced mechanical properties degradation
· Thermal stability and fire retardancy of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers, textiles and fibre-reinforced polymeric composites
· Development of proactive ("smart") and intelligent fire retardant materials.
· Fire retardant synthetic fibres (polypropylene, polyamides and polyester) incorporating polymer layered silicate nanoclays.
Her work led to registering a patent “Fire and Heat Resistant Materials”, UK Patent Application 99929178.3, 9 December, 1999 (A.R.Horrocks, B.K.Kandola, P.Myler and D.Blair).