Steve Beswick - JOMC
Steve is a Chartered Chemical Engineer and started his working life in production management with British Nuclear Fuels. He ran several of the BNFL plants including the Uranium Foundry, which at the time had the worst accident record in the whole organisation. A Culture Based Safety process was introduced to the foundry in the early 1990’s and was instrumental in eliminating time losing injuries from that plant altogether. Steve left BNFL in 1999 and has been working with JOMC at director level ever since. He is very experienced in introducing behavioural change to organisations and has worked with industry sectors such as chemical, nuclear, pharmaceutical, food, utilities, support services and construction.

Darren Holmes - Willis Network
Darren has over 28 years risk management experience.  Having started his career in the nuclear industry he has worked for Willis for over 10 years.  Working with clients across a diversity of industries both in the UK and globally he and his team have helped companies drive a more integrated approach to risk management by developing and enhancing internal risk control methodologies allowing for more objective risk transfer within the insurance market.

Declan Moore, Glass and Glazing Federation

Declan Moore is a passionate Health and Safety professional, who joined the glass industry in 2005 as the National Safety Manager for British Glass and the Glass and Glazing Federation. He was the driving force behind the development of the ‘GLASS Charter’ which is the industries proactive health and safety management system and which is now utilized in many locations around the world.

Mike Jones - Distrupol

Mike has worked for Distrupol Ltd for over 30 years in a number of commercial, technical and production rolls. He has been responsible for health, safety and quality in Distrupol for the last 15 years  and while maintaining his responsibility for Distrupol, is now working for the Univar group where he has regional responsibly for health and safety. Believing that no one should come to work and expect to be injured, Mike is a keen advocate of continual improvement in risk reduction and of the importance of influencing behavioural change as the key to improvement in safety performance. Mike is a committed member of the BPF IHS Committee and was appointed as chairperson in 2011. 

Peter Kirkham - Billion
Peter’s background is in Electrical Engineering and he spent the first 10 years or so of his career working in this field, before moving into the Plastics Industry with GPG International in Dunstable in 1982. Peter moved from there to Billion in 1984 as a Service Engineer and has been there ever since, progressing through Service Manager to Technical Manager / Director and finally Managing Director in 2001.
 
In his time with Billion UK, he has built up a loyal and close knit team who are well known and highly motivated to help there customers. They have formed close and loyal relationships with there customers and spend significant time getting to know their businesses, to enable them to develop their machines and support to be perfectly aligned with their expectations. Peter is married with one daughter and one grandaughter. He lives in a village on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, enjoying country walks, motorcycles, improving his home and following Northampton Saints in the rugby, where he works as a Steward to be more involved with the club. Peter is also a bit of a thrill seeker and in recent years he has done a tandem skydive and a 127m abseil down the National Lift Tower in Northampton for fun!  

Francisco Morcillo - British Plastics Federation
Francisco Morcillo is originally from Valencia in Spain
Francisco manages the Construction groups at the BPF as well as the Recycling group and the Health and Safety committee.

John Watson - Martor UK
John is presently Managing Director of a specialist safety knife company, Martor UK, and director of Safer Life Ltd, a company that supplies safety knives and associated PPE, along with training, all in the name of safer cutting. He has worked in a variety of positions in the paper based communications industry during the past 40 years including the position of managing director of a small group of companies involved in paper supply and management, magazine publishing and paper protection and testing equipment.

He trained at the London College of Print and was also awarded the Bowater Scholarship in papermaking. His special interest has always been at the production end where efficiencies and staff wellbeing can positively influence the business.

Kirsty Welch - HSE
Kirsty Welsh has worked for HSE for over 11 years. She began as a regulatory inspector in Kent inspecting agriculture, wood and food premises. Moving to Sheffield 6 years ago she worked as a regulatory inspector inspecting general manufacturing and engineering premises.  She also had responsibility for inspecting docks, auditing NHS trusts and other large public sector bodies. Kirsty moved from being a general inspector in October 2009 to the manufacturing sector taking the national portfolio for the paper industry.

Kirsty Welsh has worked for HSE for over 11 years. She began as a regulatory inspector in Kent inspecting agriculture, wood and food premises. Moving to Sheffield 6 years ago she worked as a regulatory inspector inspecting general manufacturing and engineering premises.  She also had responsibility for inspecting docks, auditing NHS trusts and other large public sector bodies. Kirsty moved from being a general inspector in October 2009 to the manufacturing sector taking the national portfolio for the paper industry.  In June 2011 she also took over the national portfolio for the plastics industry and took responsibility from HSE's perspective for the SIMPL initiative

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