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 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." [2] 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). [3]
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
- ↑ Nuclear Directorate's industry secondment project, ONR website, undated, accessed 21 June 2012
