Andy Farrall Fiirsm Miiai Miol

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT ANDY FARRALL FIIRSM MIIAI MIOL

With some 15 years’ experience in the h&s field, Andy holds a number of professional memberships including Fellow of the International Institute for Risk & Safety Management (FIIRSM) and Chartered Member of IOSH (CMIOSH). He is also accredited as a safety consultant on the UK OSHCR consultants\' register.He offers a broad range of national and international experience gained over the years in fields as diverse as h&s consultancy; training development; and crisis management.He has built a reputation as an international speaker on safety matters. For example, he has addressed (by invitation) numerous professional groups in the Middle East on topics such as accident management and the management of blame.In particular, he was especially pleased to be invited by the European Society for Occupational Safety & Health to address their IXth International Scientific & Practical Conference: “Occupational Safety 2022 – European Integration and Innovation”. This conference, hosted online from Warsaw, was specifically set up as a platform to provide technical support to both the Ukraine Government and key Ukraine organisations such as trade unions and the Social Security and Social Insurance Fund of Ukraine.Andy has a special interest in crisis management, and can speak with some authority on this important topic. Not only did he spend 12 years in various rôles within the NHS Ambulance Service but he was also invited to collaborate with the Irish Ambulance Service College in Dublin. At their request he designed, and then presented, specialist courses on critical decision making for senior operational officers and paramedics within the Irish National Ambulance Service. A long-term project in which he is involved is a collaboration with The Protect Alliance (UK), an organisation set up to provide advice, when requested, to UK venues who will have to comply with the recent Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025. His function within TPA (UK) will be to advise their clients on the resilience of their existing crisis management systems when measured against the international standard ISO 22361:2022. He is also partnering with the IPI Academy to develop, and then present, a series of 1-day webinars to the pharmaceutical sector on topics such as managing human error; crisis management; and h&s leadership. These courses will become available from January 2026 onwards (and please see https://ipi.academy/search?query=pharmaceutical & formats=15 & topics=12 for further details).