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 (anticipated 2013).

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 -From 2008-11 was the Director of the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)

Executives (Board)

• Mike Weightman (SCS) -HM Chief Inspector Nuclear Installations, Executive Head of Office for Nuclear Regulation
• John Jenkins, Chief Operating Officer since 11 June 2012. Before this he was managing director of Morgan Sindall Professional Services, a multi-national and multi-disciplinary consultancy. He has previously held a range of senior management and director roles, including at White Young Green (WYG) Consulting and Ove Arup & Partners. He is a chartered engineer.
• Les Philpott (SCS)- Director of Finance and Corporate Services since 1 April 2012, leading ONR's corporate finance, HR, communications and internal security functions. He was 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).

ONR's Executive Management Team

• Mike Weightman
• John Jenkins
• Les Philpott
• Kevin Allars (SCS) - Director of the Change Programme on 30 April 2012, was previously Director Nuclear New Build Programme
• Dave Caton - Head of Human Resources
• Sue Kelly, Head of Communications since April 2011, previously Strategic Communications Manager (Sept 2010 – April 2011) and a Campaign Manager (April 2006 – Sept 2010)
• Derek Lacey - Director of Regulatory Policy, Strategy and Assurance (previously Div. 3 Defence Nuclear Facilities Regulation)
• Dave Thomas -joined ONR in April 2012, initially on a six month secondment from HSE corporate finance.

ONR programmes

• Colin Patchett - Director Civil Nuclear Reactor Programme (previously Div. 1 Civil Nuclear Power Regulation). He regulates the safety of operating and defueling nuclear power stations and licensing and permissioning of proposed new build nuclear power stations.
• Mark Bassett - Director Sellafield programme. He regulates the safety of Sellafield and Windscale nuclear licensed sites in Cumbria.
• David Senior - Director Decommissioning, Fuel and Waste Programme and Director of Defence Programme - Regulates safety on a variety of nuclear fuel sites, including fuel cycle, nuclear research, waste management and decommissioning sites. And regulates safety at defence sector nuclear sites, including submarine and atomic weapons facilities, working closely with the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator.
• Adrian Freer - Director Civil Nuclear Security (previously known as Div. 5 Office for Civil Nuclear Security). He regulates security at civil licensed nuclear sites, and all other locations where sensitive nuclear information is held; and the movement by road and rail within the UK, and globally within UK flagged vessels of nuclear and other radioactive material.
• George Sallit - Head, Radioactive Materials Transport. Regulates safety during the transport of radioactive material by road and rail in Great Britain, and advises on its transport by air and sea within the UK territorial waters.

Previous programme employees

• Paul Brown - was Chief Operations Officer until 2012
• Jon Seddon - Div. 4 Operational Strategies & Corporate Services
• 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

• 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

Resources

• The ONR publishes the Nuclear Research Index (safety of operating reactors) at http://www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/2011-nri.htm