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. [1]
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
- Nick Baldwin - interim Chair, former chief executive of Powergen until 2002. His appointment is expected to be for 2-3 years, pending the successful passage of legislation to establish the ONR on a statutory basis.
- Mike Weightman (SCS) -HM Chief Inspector Nuclear Installations, Executive Head of Office for Nuclear Regulation
- Paul Brown - Chief Operations 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)- 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
- Kevin Allars (SCS) -Director Nuclear New Build Programme
- Len Creswell (SCS) -Div. 6 Deputy Director Nuclear New Build Programme
Secondees from industry
Mike Pigott, Andy Bevan and Sophie Morrison were employed by the regulator on secondment from industry. Piggott worked on new build and transformation projects for two years as a Nuclear New Build Programme Manager; he left in April 2012 to join management and construction consultancy Turner & Townsend as a director with responsibility for the power sector. [2] Bevan assisted on site inspections. Morrison is employed 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
Resources
Notes
- ↑ Creation of the Office for Nuclear Regulation Written ministerial statement from the Department for Work and Pensions Minister for Employment, The Rt. Hon. Chris Grayling MP, 8 February 2011, accessed 22 June 2011
- ↑ Mike Pigott welcomed as national power sector lead, 30 April 2012, acc 21 June 2012
