Motor vehicle engineer with experience in trade and test laboratory. Expert witness vehicle safety examinations for civil and trading standards cases.
Consulting automaotive engineer and expert witness. INpsection of alltypes of vehicle, inlcuding motor homes , caravans, trailers, buses and coaches. Reports for Trading Standards. Car servicing surveys.
Consulting motor engineer and expert witness. Examination and reports on all types of motor vehicle, inlcuding licenced taxis. Inspection of caravans. Investigation of air bag deployments.
Human factors and engineering consultancy specialising in solving safety problems for suppliers of consumer goods arising from specific complaints or compliance with regulations and standards for a very broad range of products. Particular experience in General Product Safety legal requirements, physical hazards, risk assessments. adequacy of warnings and instructions, foreseeable behaviour of children and safety expectations of consumers in general.
Research undertaken for suppliers, standards bodies, enforcement agencies or government bodies into consumer accident data sources, causes, patterns and prevention or test methods.
30 years experience of identifying and assessing physical hazards and human factors issues in very wide spectrum of domestic products and consumer facilities. Over a hundred expert witness reports written for injury claims or trading standards cases on issues including causes of accidents, foreseeable child behaviour, warnings or instructions, diligence in supply chain, risk assessments and product recalls. Reasoned interpretations given of general and specific safety expectations, published standards, safety regulations, European Directives and statutory duties of care. Opinions also given where criminal prosecutions or child care proceedings involve disputed assertions of product involvement in injuries.
Chartered mechanical engineer with career in design and developement of industrial equipment. Twenty years experience as an expert witness in injury liability and criminal cases including a variety of consumer hardwear products, particulalry cycles, ladders, powered tools and machinery.
Chartered mechanical engineer and Member of the Institute Ooccupational Health and Safety, with expert witness experience in industrial and workplace safety issues including ladder and playground accidents.