FSCPH’19 │ New speaker from Engineering Safety Consultants Ltd

Ron Bell
OBE, B.Sc. (Hons), CEng, FIET, FS Expert (TÜV Rheinland, #258/15, SIS), Executive Director
Engineering Safety Consultants (ESC) Limited

From 1992 until 2006, Ron Bell was head of the Electrical and Control Systems Group in the Health and Safety Executive. In 1998, he was appointed as one of the five UK members of the binational Channel Tunnel Safety Authority which is a position he held for 13 years. He chairs one of the two IEC working groups responsible for IEC 61508 (the international standard dealing with safety critical systems). In 2005, he received the IEC 1906 Award for his work on functional safety and IEC 61508. He held a 3-year appointment (2015-2018) as a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at Liverpool John Moores University. He received the OBE in the Queen’s 2006 New Year Honours.

What Ron brings to the conference
The focus of my presentation will be on several important concepts in the process sector standard (IEC 61511-Edition 2) and my aim is to provide clarity and practical interpretation of those clauses to facilitate better decision-making on those applying the standard. A brief review of the cyber security & safety requirements in IEC 61511 will be covered.

Ron Bell
OBE, B.Sc. (Hons), CEng, FIET, FS Expert (TÜV Rheinland, #258/15, SIS), Executive Director
Engineering Safety Consultants (ESC) Limited