HSENI - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• Member of the Building Mental Health Alliance
• the Safety, Health and Environmental Sustainability Director

Andrew is the Safety, Health and Environmental Sustainability Director of GRAHAM, a privately owned company with a 200-year history specialising in building, civil engineering, interior fit-out, facilities management and investments across the UK and Ireland. He has worked with GRAHAM since 1991, and has held various engineering, project management and central management roles in the company before taking up his current position in 2007. Andrew is also the Group Compliance Officer under the Modern Slavery Act and leads the Safety Culture and Climate Programme. He is a mental health first aider and behavioural safety coach. Andrew holds degrees in both Law and Civil Engineering, as well as diploma and certificate level qualifications in law, risk management, and occupational health and safety. He is a member of the International Institute of Risk & Safety Management and has been a guest speaker at numerous seminars for HSENI on both construction safety and behavioural safety. Andrew is a committee member of the Building Mental Health Alliance, a member of the Civil Engineering Industrial Liaison Panel at Ulster University, a founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (NI Region) H&S Group and sits on JSAP (the Joint Standards Advisory Panel which advises on the standards for certification to Safe-T-Cert). He was previously appointed as an independent member to the HSE (GB) Fee for Intervention Dispute Panel. He does not hold any other public appointments.

Job Titles:

• Chairman

With a background in electrical engineering, Catherine has over 35 years' industry experience across a broad spectrum of sectors. Beginning with the DuPont Company at the Maydown site in Northern Ireland, she held several positions in both electrical engineering and health and safety management before transitioning into senior global leadership roles within the company in 2000 (until 2020). In the period when the DuPont company had more than 200 sites globally, she was the corporate leader for maintenance and reliability. During her career, Catherine's work has focused on all aspects of operational excellence, and she is widely recognised for her expertise providing strategic leadership for workplace safety, reliability, and maintenance. Benefitting from her experience, she currently provides strategy, leadership, risk management and governance consultancy support to senior executives globally in a wide range of sectors including oil and gas, chemical, manufacturing, food and nutrition, mining and metals. She is regularly invited to speak on these topics at conferences. Catherine has a degree in electrical engineering, is a chartered engineer and a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. She has postgraduate qualifications in business administration and systems thinking. In 2021 she was awarded an MBE for services to young people and served as County High Sherriff for Fermanagh. Until recently, Catherine was chair of the trustee board for Girlguiding UK (since 2018), a large UK charity. She was appointed to the board of HSENI in 2021, reappointed in 2024 and subsequently appointed as chair in the same year.

Job Titles:

• Deputy Chief Executive

After graduating from Queen's University Belfast, Dr Bryan Monson completed a PhD in Geology in 1993 and subsequently worked on a number of mining projects in Europe and North America. In 1994 Bryan joined the Health and Safety Division, DED, as an Inspector and following the creation of HSENI IN 1999, he was promoted to Principal Inspector in 2000. En route, Bryan completed professional qualifications in Occupational Safety and Health and Explosives Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS), a member of the Institute of Explosives Engineers (MIExpE) and a member of the Institute of Quarrying (MIOQ). In February 2006 Bryan was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive and holds the position of Head of HSENI's Field Operations Division.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board

Pat was a consultant ophthalmologist in Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (RVH). She holds a general medical degree (QUB), a postgraduate Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Ophthalmology and a Fellowship of The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (London). In addition to general ophthalmology clinical activity, she developed a sub-specialist interest in medical retinal diseases, and especially diabetic eye disease, the leading cause of blindness in people of working age. She was instrumental in establishing the NI Diabetic Eye Screening Programme, working extensively with a wide range of stakeholders including other medical practitioners, patients and charitable organisations, and aiming to identify those in need of treatment intervention at the optimal time. Together with a small number of colleagues from all four UK nations she contributed significantly to the UK-wide screening programmes, serving on the Advisory Board of the English Screening Programme for many years until 2014. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB) in 2014. She previously had spent seven years (1985-92) in Singapore as Visiting Consultant at both Singapore National University Hospital and Singapore National Eye Centre and was privileged to work alongside several entrepreneurial and visionary eye surgeons. She was invited to serve on the Advisory Board for Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) which is now recognised worldwide as a centre of excellence. Pat is married with three adult children and four grandchildren. She enjoys a wide range of musical activities and sport. She does not hold any other public appointments.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• Principal

A former high school principal, Gerry spent most of his professional career teaching in grammar schools, comprehensive schools and in technical colleges in England. For three years he worked for Manchester University as a mentor for graduates studying for their post graduate certification in education (PGCE). Gerry also held the posts of chief examiner and chief moderator for the Northern Examination and Assessment Board (NEAB) for a period of eight years. In 1998 he returned home to Northern Ireland to take up the post of principal of a high school in Omagh. He took early retirement after 35 years in education in 2008. In his retirement years he held the following posts: worked for eight years as a non-executive board director in the Business Services Organisation (BSO) serving on several internal committees worked for three years for a cancer charity, in a voluntary capacity, as the governance chair and its development chair worked for four years for the Commissioner for Public Appointments NI (CPANI) as an Independent assessor on government departmental board appointments worked for two years for the Department of Justice Policing Board as its independent complaints monitor in the appointment of independent members to policing and community safety partnerships and community safety partnerships He is currently a board panel member for the Department of Education's Exceptional Circumstances Body (ECB) (remuneration £250 per day) and is a lay panel board member on the PSNI's Police Misconduct/Disciplinary Panel (remuneration £250 per day).

Job Titles:

• Deputy Chief Executive

Kevin graduated from Queen's University Belfast in 2004 with a BEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and subsequently worked in the plant hire industry. Kevin joined HSENI in 2009 and completed professional qualifications in Regulatory Occupational Health and Safety and additional qualifications in respect of Electrical Safety and High Voltage Power Systems and has worked as an Inspector in the Transport and Utilities Group. In 2015 he became the COMAH (Control of Major Accident Hazards) Inspector within the Major Hazards Group. During this period he reviewed and developed emergency planning arrangements for major hazard sites with co-regulators and designated authorities. In 2017 he became Principal Inspector of the Major Hazards, Gas & Transport Group. In 2021 Kevin was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive and holds the position of Head of HSENI's Market Compliance & Operations Division.

Job Titles:

• Deputy Chief Executive
• Inspector

Having graduated from Queen's University Belfast, Louis obtained a MA in Industrial Psychology (First Class) in 1992 from University College Dublin. Following this he trained and worked as a health and safety consultant and then took up a position of Safety Manager with Guinness Northern Ireland Limited. Louis then became the Business Risk manager with Guinness Limited (formerly Guinness Brewing Worldwide) until he joined the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI). On joining HSENI, Louis has been an inspector in the Disciplined Services Sector. During this period he developed and reviewed HSENI's policies and procedures on investigation and prosecutions. In 2005 he became a Principal Inspector and in 2007 he set up HSENI's Major Investigation Team where he was responsible for the management and oversight of investigations and prosecutions arising out of fatalities and the most serious accidents at work in Northern Ireland. In 2017 Louis was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive and holds the position of Head of HSENI's Services Division.

Job Titles:

• Deputy Chief Executive

Nikki graduated with a BSc in Geology from Queen's University, Belfast in 1990. After working as a Personnel Officer for Dale Farm and a Training Officer for the YMCA, she joined the Health and Safety Division as a Health and Safety Inspector in 1994. Following the creation of HSENI in 1999, Nikki worked on the set up of HSENI's Information and Advisory Service and was promoted to the position of Principal Inspector in 2002. During her time as Principal Inspector Nikki had responsibility for training, which included the training of new inspectors. Nikki was also responsible for the delivery of the HSENI and district council strategy for the better regulation of health and safety at work in Northern Ireland, alongside the provision of HSENI's corporate support arrangements. In January 2014 Nikki was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive and holds the position of Head of HSENI's Specialist Sectors Division.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board

Simon McDowell has spent most of his career in a variety of roles at Kilwaughter Minerals Limited. He was the managing director from 2001 to 2019 and continues to sit on the board. Simon is an executive committee member for the Mineral Products Association Northern Ireland. He completed an Institute of Directors Diploma in Company Direction in 2014. He does not hold any other public appointments.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• General Nurse

Siobhán Rooney trained as a general nurse, midwife and health visitor and has worked in acute, community and primary care health and social care settings. Throughout her career she has held senior management positions at health and social care trusts and Department of Health in Northern Ireland. Siobhán has an MSc in Health Service management and is also an associate consultant with NI HSC Leadership Centre. She has also worked with the former Commission for Healthcare Improvement (CHI) and participated in health care reviews in England and Wales. She is currently vice chair of the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA) NI Branch, an MNDA visitor and was formerly an elected trustee on the Motor Neurone Disease Association National Board. Siobhán has held several board chair and non-executive director positions in the statutory, voluntary and charitable sectors. She brings to her position an extensive knowledge of corporate and clinical and social care governance, risk management, patient safety, performance management and accountability systems within statutory, voluntary and charitable sector organisations. She does not hold any other public appointments.