Safety Culture in Construction: Human Factors in Accident Prevention

Liam Baxter

Liam Baxter is a Chartered Civil Engineer, has a diploma in Health & Safety and is a Chartered Member of IOSH. Liam is an Associate in the Construction Design Management (CDM) Team with over 20 years’ experience initially on a wide range of civil engineering projects and for the last 8 years has specialised in CDM.  His CDM experience includes Principal Designer and PSDP (on ROI projects) for a wide variety of works such as hospitals, marine works, infrastructure, commercial office developments, education and airports.  Recent key Principal Designer roles which Liam has been involved include Carlingford Lough Greenway, the Greenlink Interconnector and Altnagelvin Hospital Restaurant.

Ash Gardner

Ash is an inspector with the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) with 5 years’ experience in this role. Recently, Ash has led investigations into a passenger fatality on London Underground, a passenger train derailment at Grange-over-Sands, and a freight train runaway at Kineton.  Ash is also Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Railway Operators (CIRO).

Bernard Grainger

Bernard Grainger is SQE manager with Babcock Rail.

He has been in Construction Safety for 23 years most of that with Babcock in track renewals and civil engineering in GB and he was the Babcock representative on the Track Safety Alliance Work at Height Group or a number of years.

Bernard has been the Babcock Rail Safety lead in Northern Ireland on Translink Frameworks and Projects since 2019.