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Redhall Nuclear appoints new Business Operations Director

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Redhall Nuclear, which offers engineering and design services to the nuclear industry, has appointed experienced chartered mechanical engineer, Noel Fox, in the role of Business Operations Director.

Noel has accrued over 20 years experience within the manufacturing and engineering sectors and is an accomplished technical and commercial General Manager, whose career began as a Manufacturing Manager at Dennis Eagle Ltd following completion of a graduate training programme at GEC Alsthom. It was during his time with GEC Alsthom that he developed a leaning towards manufacturing management and subsequently, general management.

Prior to joining Redhall Nuclear, Noel was the Director of Operations for Furmanite International Ltd, a global leader in the provision of high value bespoke engineered products and services into a range of industry sectors, the most significant being the nuclear and oil and gas industries.

Commenting on his appointment with Redhall Nuclear, Noel said: “I am motivated by the application of process improvement and lean methodologies and relish the opportunities that business leadership and operational management roles provide. I have worked hard to achieve a number of professional goals in previous roles, including the preparation and delivery of strategic plans to align engineering, manufacturing, service delivery and business support to improve bottom line growth.

“I am really looking forward to applying my experience and skills at Redhall, to implement strategic improvements and help to develop and deliver operational strategies that will enable Redhall to maximise revenue opportunities and retain its crown as one of the industry’s market leaders.”

Helen Simms, Managing Director at Redhall Nuclear, is looking forward to working with Noel: “Noel has proved himself professionally in a number of challenging roles, and will undoubtedly bring a lot of valuable experience to Redhall. He is a strategic thinker and is very comfortable in the role of mentor and business leader and has a history of implementing successful business change from cradle to grave.”

Prior to his role at Furmanite International Ltd, Noel was employed at Head of Manufacturing at Edbro plc and prior to that was General Manager at Boalloy Ltd.

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Redhall Engineering celebrates string of contract awards

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The Industrial division of Redhall Engineering, which provides engineering solutions to the oil and gas, chemical, power, petrochemical, industrial, pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries, has secured four contracts worth over £3m.

Three of the four contracts represent new business wins for the division. The first is a three year contract with Chemoxy International to deliver project, maintenance and engineering support services to its two Teesside based assets and the second is with Davy Markham Limited to provide pipework fabrication and equipment skid assembly, which will take place at Redhall’s Middlesbrough facility.

Redhall also secured new business with BOC Industrial Gases having been awarded a 12-day contract to provide maintenance resources for the company’s 2013 Hydrogen Plant TAR located in North Tees. This contract has already been fulfilled having commenced last month [March].

The last of the four is with DOW Corning. For the second concurrent year, Redhall has been retained to provide overhaul support services to the company’s site in Barry, South Wales.  A team of around 150 staff will work with the DOW resident engineering teams to deliver the 2013 site shutdown.

Commenting on their recent success, Redhall Engineering’s Operations Director, Tony Jester, said:  “We are delighted to have secured new contracts with some of Europe’s most high profile companies, as it reflects the scope of our capabilities and underpins the reputation we have built in the industry.

“The Industrial Division has worked really hard to attain these contracts and will work equally as hard to deliver them safely and effectively.”

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Taking Positive Steps to Minimise Risk

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David Hull, Interim SHEQ Manager Redhall Group plc “Redhall has a robust group health and safety management system which provides the operating divisions with a set of standards they can develop to meet local requirements. However, it is important that these requirements are viewed by both the external and internal audiences as open and transparent and that best practice with regard to HSE is seen to be delivered proactively throughout the Group.

We believe in working closely with our insurers. By doing this, the insurer gains faith and trust in that what we say we are delivering, is actually happening. This confidence is then, hopefully, reflected in the next premium review.

So, with this in mind, Redhall approached Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Underwriting at Lloyds Ltd (MSIUL) to undertake its RISC© Survey Programme within the businesses. There has been an insurance relationship between our two entities since 2003 and this was seen as the next step in the risk engineering programmes agreed every year with Redhall Group through its insurance broker, Bluefin.

RISC© is a unique risk management information system, developed by the MSIUL Risk Engineering Department. It allows access to a detailed risk profile that can be used to prioritise risk management initiatives. RISC© profiling consists of a survey at selected sites, to undertake a comprehensive risk assessment that addresses all the relevant areas of operation. This then allows for a clear and consistent method for determining the level of risk from each operation and provides a reliable indicator of the achievable standards of risk management that can be used to inform an agreed Loss Reduction Programme.

As David Dexter, Risk Engineering Account Manager at MSIUL explains: “There are two main factors that we take into account when calculating a quantitative risk assessment. Firstly, what are the inherent safety and exposure hazards associated with the premises and its occupancy? Secondly, what are the risk management arrangements for minimising the potential for personal injury or loss to employees and third parties?”

The assessments are carried out and scored under a variety of headings that include:

• Acute / Trauma Exposures

• Chronic / Disease Exposures

• Plant Hazards

• Workplace Hazards

• Occupational Health

• Physical Design

• Policy & Procedures.

With the full support of Laura Houghton, Redhall’s Group SHEQ Manager, nine site surveys were completed by MSIUL between April and June of last year. The sites visited crossed all areas of the Group’s activities in Engineering, Nuclear and Manufacturing.

The result, overall, was good news with David commenting as follows: “There is little doubt that the Group and its businesses have well developed resourced and successful health and safety risk management processes and procedures, supported by competent and professional safety teams. Also, the overarching Group Policy is an objective setting document with local policies developed accordingly to meet these objectives. There were numerous examples of good practice across the businesses and there is scope for increasing the sharing of this.”