Newsletter 01 I April 2021

News from around the APS regions

regionalround-up

Hello! My name Charles Cowling and I am the chair of the Anglia region. I have been involved with putting on CPD events and representing the region.

The committee would like to meet more APS Anglia members so we are putting on an informal virtual meeting in May so we can engage with more of you. We will be talking about: RIBA stages; design risk; and health and wellbeing.

If you would like to join the Anglia committee - or have any queries - please feel free to contact me via the APS at info@aps.org.uk putting ‘East Anglia’ in the subject line.

East Anglia - Introduction

Virtual meeting in the Anglia Region

For more information on these stories, look out for

the next Project Safety Matters magazine or

contact your localarea representatives

North West England

First Zoom webinar

The North West Region held its first Zoom webinar on 21st April on Design Risk Management given by the highly respected industry expert, John Carpenter, the webinar was attended by 537 persons and was well received.

The next regional Committee meeting will be held in May and it is hoped that the APS President Elect, Ray Bone, will be in attendance and the committee look forward to welcoming him.

We are currently intending to develop a schedule of proposed CPD events and if any regional members have any suggestions for future events/webinars we would be pleased to receive them.

London - Committee Members

Regional Chair - Peter Taylor - 07793 326022Deputy Chair - Ken HannahSecretary - Peter WaxmanTreasurer - Peng ChouCommittee Member - Shahnawaz Shaikh Committee Member - James HowardCommittee Member - Paul BusseyCommittee Member - Philip BakerCommittee Member - Mark SnellingCommittee Member - John ChraslekCommittee Member - Rebecca WeirCommittee Member - Raena Daly

Midlands - Committee Members

Regional Chair - Nattasha Freeman - 07812 319341Deputy Chair - David RudgeCommittee Member - Daljit SharmaCommittee Member - Greg Ward

News from around the APS regionsNewsletter 01 I April 2021

My name is Paul Swales and I am the chair of the East Midlands regional committee. I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all APS members in the East Midlands. I am a chartered civil engineer and CDM adviser at WSP, seconded to Lincolnshire County Council Highways.

I would like to introduce you to Allan Binns who is new to our committee. Allan is architectural director of Ryder Architecture where he oversees the practice’s health and safety policy including its principal designer service.

The other committee members are:

Tam Bream is head of consultancy at Callsafe Services Limited where he specialises in construction and CDM training;Derek Fenwick is an architectural technician and principal designer at the Evans Partnership;David Matthews of the Waterman Group is a principal designer, chartered civil engineer and CDM/PD adviser; and Mark Richards is a chartered electrical engineer, healthcare authorising engineer and CDM adviser.

Members of the committee cover a wide range of specialisms in construction health and safety and provide a service to our regional members, feeding back to HQ any issues you wish to voice. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.

APS has adapted to the challenges of the pandemic by rolling out an extensive programme of webinars on a wide range of topics from all sectors of the construction industry. We hope to resume face-to-face local meetings when Covid restrictions permit. In the meantime, please contact us if you wish to give a presentation or if you know anyone who could do so on their specialist subject.

We look forward to hearing from you, or meeting you, once we can get back to something approaching normal service!

East Midlands - A welcome

Introducing the Team

South West England

A Welcome

Welcome to the South West Regional area of the newsletter. My name is Lesley and I am your regional chair.

Since January we have held a CPD event featuring a speaker from our local HSE covering the construction review. We hope soon to put on a further event talking about ecology and, once the pandemic is over, we are looking to organise a couple of site visits.

Your committee is currently meeting bi-monthly via Zoom and members have been very busy:

Niall Carter has written a synopsis, ‘Inadequacies of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and other Building / Construction Regulations’. He would be glad to hear regional and national members’ views. Please contact him at: niallkcarter@gmail.com for a copy; and

Sue Wilton attended the Wales CPD webinar in January which covered fire safety management. She is writing a case study on her experience of best practise in fire safety on construction sites. Hopefully, by the next newsletter, it will be available to anyone who is interested. Hopefully, South West regional members have found the branch and HQ webinars of interest. But, if you have a particular topic you would like to see featured, don’t hesitate to contact me. And, if you have a particular interest and you would like to share your experiences with others, please get in touch.

I look forward to meeting you when circumstances permit.

Northern England

Let’s meet the Northern England region committee.

Chair: Kevin Bainbridge.Kevin has been an APS member since 2013 and has been on the committee since 2017. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Building. Kevin is principal consultant on CDM matters in the Wood Group’s Gosforth office where he is the principal designer on internal projects and principal designer adviser and CDM adviser supporting external clients, designers and contractors. Kevin loves spending time with his family, going on weekend walks and being a massive James Bond and Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movie nerd!

Vice Chair: Russ Charnock Russ has been an APS member since 2004 and has served on the committee as a co-opted and elected member since January 2009. Russ is CDM lead for the Wood Group. He is chartered civil engineer with over 28 years’ experience in the design, procurement and site supervision of infrastructure projects. He has worked on many high profile projects in the north-east of England and throughout the UK as a planning supervisor and CDM co-ordinator / principal designer. Russ is a past member of the ICE expert health & safety panel and co-authored the CITB designer guidance for CDM 2015. Russ plays the drums and his claim to fame is recording with Peter Hook of New Order.

Secretary: John Johnson John has been an APS member since 2005 and served on the committee since 2019. John is CDM lead for Stantec. He is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineer with over 31 years’ experience in the design, procurement and site supervision of infrastructure projects. He has worked on many high profile projects in the north-east of England and throughout the UK as a planning supervisor. CDM co-ordinator and principal designer. In his spare time John ‘enjoys’ watching Newcastle, playing rugby, spending time with his family and going on weekend walks.

Co-opted Member: Malcolm Shiels Malcolm has been involved with APS for many years. He started as a committee volunteer and is both a past chair of the region and a former director. Malcolm worked in Middle East before returning to the UK and re-joining the committee. He chairs the APS governance committee

looking at the future structures of APS. Malcolm is a package SHE manager for Costain delivering major infrastructure works for Highways England. Malcolm also chairs IOSH’s construction group. Outside of work Malcolm is a sportaholic, supporting the ‘Toon’. He enjoys long walks with his family and, like Kevin, is huge Marvel fan.

Co-opted member: Tim Nichol Tim has been an APS member since 2017 and has been on the committee since January 2019. Tim is a principal designer and health and safety consultant for CK21 where he joined the team in December 2016. He has 10 years’ experience in structural engineering, health and safety management and health and safety in design. He is a member of IOSH and holds the highly regarded NEBOSH diploma. In his spare time Tim likes nothing better than playing sport and to challenge himself completing in crazy ironman endurance events across the world. He is a former English skiing champion.

Co-optee member: Steve Slater Steve has been a member of the APS since 2004. He holds the NEBOSH national certificate in construction health and safety and is on the Institution of Civil Engineers’ advanced health and safety register. Steve is the design manager for Mott MacDonald Bentley’s design and build framework with United Utilities. He has over 30 years’ experience in the design, management and supervision of water and wastewater non-infrastructure and networks projects. Steve has also worked as a planning supervisor, CDM co-ordinator and principal designer. Steve plays the guitar badly, is a licenced drone operator and pilot and loves walking, running and cycling, usually off the beaten path and accompanied by his border collie.

We hope you have enjoyed recent webinars on the national underground asset register and specifying safe surfaces. We are planning future CPD sessions and joint events with both the Chartered Institute of Building and the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technology as well as a site visit to a large construction site project.

We would like to hear from regional members about what you want from CPDs or if you would like to present a topic. Please do get in touch!

Northern Ireland - Committee Members

Regional Chair - Sean Maguire - 07740 087988Deputy Chair - Paul CheyneSecretary - John MurrayTreasurer - John MurrayCommittee Member - Syd MagillCommittee Member - Valerie RobinsonCo-optee - Gerry MillarCo-optee - Peter Fitzpatrick

Scotland East

Scotland East’s first online event

Scotland East’s first online event was held just as this newsletter was going to press. APS members from across the UK joined speakers from Jacobs and Balfour Beatty for a talk about dualling the A9 from Luncarty to the Pass of Birnam. We hope to be back in the autumn with more events – either online or in person depending on Scottish Government restrictions.

The Scotland East committee relies on volunteers. Following the retirement - from work not just from the committee - of several long-standing members we are now in desperate need of extra hands to help out with organising and arranging local events.

Serving on the committee also provides excellent access to APS CPD and, hopefully, working with like-minded colleagues. If you are willing to help please contact graeme.smith@fairhurst.co.uk or any of the staff at HQ who will pass on your details.

Scotland North

Get to know us

My name is Andrew Gardiner and I am the chair of the Scotland North region. I thought you might like to get to know us a little better.

Scotland North is the furthest north APS gets and our patch covers an area from Aberdeen in the south to Lerwick in the north. We also cover the country, side to side, from Stornoway to Peterhead. We have just welcomed William Ross to the committee as a new co-opted member. William has a wealth of CDM experience and is currently employed with the Highland Council. We also have: Eric Davidson - who has finally become a chartered quantity surveyor. He is a graduate of Robert Gordon University and is currently working on an exciting project providing CDM adviser services; Neil Ferguson and Leslie Hutt, who work in construction from the architects’ point of view. They believe APS needs to build and maintain a body of knowledge, advocate for the role of risk management in construction, business and general wellbeing and support and enhance the role of the architect and other members of the project team; and Paul Davies - our secretary – who joined the committee in 2018. Paul is an operations supervisor and fire risk assessor with Safehands Health and Safety Consultants working across the UK on construction health and safety and CDM. His current focus is on raising awareness of fire safety and the environmental impact of construction activities. The committee feels the current APS CPD is a step in the right direction and helps draw together knowledge and experiences as we all move forward in as safe an environment as possible. To this end they are joining to be discussing a range of issues including a recent article in Project Scotland which made reference to the Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS) and that found 80 per cent of 900 construction businesses had projects postponed or cancelled because of Covid-19. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the APS team for all their assistance and support with the committee and helping us out as, and when, required.

News from around the APS regionsNewsletter 01 I April 2021

Scotland West - Committee Members

Regional Chair - Callum Bunce - 07772 007013Deputy Chair - Leanne McDermottGeneral Committee Member - Paul McCool

South East England- Committee Members

Regional Chair - Roy Blamey - 07825 598288Secretary - Alan SeddonTreasurer - James Addley

South Central England - Committee Members

Regional Chair - Alan Vowler - 07535 187830Deputy Chair - Phil ChristopherCommittee Member - Robert AlfreyCommittee Member - Mark Blanchette

Wales - Committee Members

Regional Chair - Ceri Camilleri - 07932 301051Deputy Chair - Jason WilliamsSecretary - Ceri CamilleriTreasurer - Jason WilliamsEx-Officio - Bryn WildeCommittee Member - Mark LittlejohnsCommittee Member - Andrew YoungCommittee Member - David InesonCo-optee - Robert Camilleri

Yorkshire

A highly successful webinar

The Yorkshire region held a highly successful webinar - Fire safety: updates & overview -on Thursday 18 February 2021. The webinar was very informative and feedback - not only from our region but nationally and internationally - was excellent.

Our next webinar will be held on Friday 14 May 2021 when we will welcome Ray Bone, APS president elect, to talk about controlling and managing contractors in construction.

Raymond Bone is a Yorkshire region committee member. He will be setting out the requirements for clients when engaging a contractor for construction work at, or on, a building/site.