Office for Nuclear Regulation

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) is an agency of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched in April 2011 pending planned legislation to establish it as an independent statutory body.

Activities

The ONR brings together the safety and security functions of HSE’s Nuclear Directorate (incorporating the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, the Office for Civil Nuclear Security and the UK Safeguards Office) and, from summer 2011, the Department for Transport’s Radioactive Materials Transport Division.

People

Board

Non-executives

• Nick Baldwin - Chair, former chief executive of Powergen until 2002, and a former non-executive director of Scottish and Southern Energy and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. His appointment is expected to be for 2-3 years, pending the successful passage of legislation to establish the ONR on a statutory basis (anticipated 2013).
• Kevin Myers - HSE's Deputy Chief Executive. He is also a member of HSE's Senior Management Team.
• Paul Kenny - General Secretary of the GMB trade union in May 2006, having become Acting General Secretary in June 2005. He was appointed to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Board as non-executive director for a three year term which started 1 October 2010.
• Steve Bundred
• John Crackett - from July 2011. Previously was Managing Director of Central Networks – the UK’s second-largest distributor of electricity - and also E.ON UK Board member responsible for Safety, Health and Environment.
• Liz Siberry

Executives

• Mike Weightman (SCS) -HM Chief Inspector Nuclear Installations, Executive Head of Office for Nuclear Regulation

John Jenkins, Chief Operating Officer

• Colin Patchett (SCS) -Div. 1 Civil Nuclear Power Regulation
• Derek Lacey (SCS) - Div. 3 Defence Nuclear Facilities Regulation
• Jon Seddon - Div. 4 Operational Strategies & Corporate Services
• Adrian Freer - Div. 5 Office for Civil Nuclear Security
• Les Philpott (SCS)- Director of Finance and Corporate Services, previously responsible for corporate governance and accountability in ONR, and for strategy, policy formulation and managing ONR's relations with Government (Div. 7 Nuclear Policy and International Relations)
• Andy Hall (SCS) - Head of Regulatory and Technical Standards for the Fukushima review
• Roger Brunt -ONR Transformation Programme Director (SCS)
• Alun Williams (SCS)-Strategic Project Programme

Former staff

• Paul Brown - was Chief Operations Officer
• Kevin Allars (SCS) -Director Nuclear New Build Programme
• Len Creswell (SCS) -Div. 6 Deputy Director Nuclear New Build Programme

Secondees from industry

• Mike Pigott was employed by the regulator on secondment from industry from January 2011, working on new build and transformation projects for 12 months as a Nuclear New Build Programme Manager. In April 2012 he joined management and construction consultancy Turner & Townsend as a director with responsibility for the power sector. T&T's clients have included British Nuclear Group, which said of the company: "We found Turner & Townsend to be an excellent choice as our partner for the delivery of programme controls at Sellafield. They were particularly supportive of our need to develop programme controls capability with in the organisation and worked with us to align their talent in a delivery role as well as an instructional role." Previously Pigott worked as Wylfa Site Programme Manager for seven years with Magnox.
• Andy Bevan from Babcock Marine and Technology, assisted on ONR site inspections from June 2009 until mid 2011.
• Sophie Morrison was employed on a six-month secondment from BAE Systems in Barrow, Cumbria, working as a process-mapping consultant working on ONR's business management system (BMS).

Contact

Address: 4N.2 Redgrave Court, Desk 26, Merton Road, Bootle, L20 7HS

Phone:0151 951 3484

Email:ONRenquiries@hse.gsi.gov.uk

Website:http://www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/index.htm