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Jeff
Charlton

My initial career was working in mechanical engineering and the National Health Service. Focus of interest in medical physics’ and nuclear medicine with specific responsibilities in radio isotopes such as iodine, caesium, technetium, and radium.

Three years in military service with 51st Highland Volunteers and undertook specialist education training provider in CBR battlefield defence.

The mid eighties started with the inception and development of a building and environmental decontamination company, this gave a very broad education on chemical acid, base and surfactant use. This experience resulted in an approach from Sweden’s biggest disaster recovery company “Ocab as a European networking partner.

The experience gained from this resulted in a solo expedition to Kuwait post Gulf war in 1990. From a standing start as a lone contractor I developed a work force of over 400 multi lingual personnel.

We provided demonstrations and feasibility studies on recovery and restoration protocols to companies such as Bechtel. Brown & Root, Ministries of Aukaf and Electricity & Water. I provided training and scopes of work for US Corps of Engineers during their initial recovery phase of Kuwait.

My company specialised in decontamination of oil terminals, (gathering stations), Doha electricity power station and worked closely with EOD explosive ordinance disposal to expose and identify hidden or oil covered explosive devices. Various hotels such as Kuwait Crown Plaza (Holiday Inn) Marriott and embassies were restored to minimise loss and maximise profits. Works in Kuwait lasted over two years.

On return to UK I started a new company specialising in disaster recovery and worked for various loss adjusting and insurance companies with specific focus on the London area or major national and International disruptive event. The development and growth of Business continuity planning was recognised and from visiting on average 3 commercial disasters a week I developed a very broad knowledge of the concept and became a member of the BCI Business Continuity Institute.

During the nineties and early 2000 I worked and studied extensively in the USA and Europe focusing on toxic mould, HAZMAT situations and certified in various fields including licensed asbestos removal. While in the USA I worked with the Toxic mold task force in the development of the decontamination protocols as seen in the IICRC S520 manual.
General failures in the current principles of building drying and resulted in the development of various novel protocols for speed drying and these are still utilised today. I served on the on the HVAC task force and made input to the TR17 cleaning standards of ventilation systems reflecting indoor air quality.

The events of 9/11 identified serious deficiencies in the limitations of planning for response instead of defence and focus was placed on developing proactive defence procedures. These procedures focused on the defence of buildings and protection of occupants, this resulted in various commissions for contingency plans and invitation as a visiting lecturer at Cranfield Royal Military College.

From 2001 I have reduced and replaced my contracting capability with the growth in consultancy and audits, inspections and training. The focus has been on property defence and occupant safety with recovery and robust business continuity a cornerstone.

Personal Achevements

Winner of Disaster Recovwery awards 1999 & 2001 and finalist in three other years.

Founding chairman and fellow of BDMA British Damage Management Association,

Chairman of BCI London Forum. Business Continuity Institute

Past speaker engagements

Chatham House Insurance vulnerabilities Horizon Scanning

Survive International conference in Business Continuity & Terrorism

BCI CBRN Terrorism and defence – alternative strategies in BC planning

BDMA Mould & asbestos hazards &awareness

Homeland Defence (Kentucky USA) Terrorism and defence

Security for Energy Infrastructure CBR Terrorism and Business Continuity

Madrid Security conference CBR Terrorism defence issues

Training or Speaking engagements 2007

Protecting Oil &energy Infrastructure 4 Hour workshop and seminar on escape and shelter

Russian Power & Energy defence 2 day

Kuwait Oil Field Security 5 day counter terrorism course April

Fortune 250 dinner speaker Emerging business threats

Fortune 250 CIO Connect Lunch speaker Bird Flu-Pandemic

De-contaminating CBR agents. The Cleaning Show Birmingham March

Bird flu and decontamination issues.The Cleaning show Birmingham March

BCI Expo March 28-29 Polonium 210 and general cost issues of decontamination

BCI Expo 4 Hour workshop on CBR Building Defence & employees

BCI Expo Semianr on Bird Flu protection and engineering controls

Qualifications

Certified Forensic Examiner

Member of Board of Homeland Defeence Technicians (USA)

Certified Restorer USA

Water Loss Specialist USA

Certified Mechanical Hygienist USA

Applied Microbial Remediation Technician USA

Mould Remediation Supervisor Hydrolab USA

Certified IR thermographer UK FLIR

Associate Institute Occupational Safety Health UK

Asbestos surveyor BIOH UK

Asbestos identification, Polarised Light Microscopy BIOH UK

Hazwopper 1st Responder 40 hour USA

Senior Tech BDMA UK

Disinfection & Air Quality (Stockholm)

Blood borne Pathogen decontamination USA

Mold Remediation USA & Toxic Mold Task force

Confined space working UK USA

Member BCI Business Continuity Institute

IICRC & ASCR fire & flood odour USA (Instructor status)

ASD Applied Structural Drying USA

Air Sampling Techniques SKC. UK

Fire, Flood IICRC & ASCR USA

ONC Engineering

Blood Trauma Scene

Crystal Meth Lab decontamination

Crime scene clean up

Instructor with NIDS National Institute of Decontamination Specialists USA

Instructor status with ABRA American Bio Recovery Association

Registered Expert Witness

Instructor with the following organisations for all areas described in qualifications.

BDMA British Damage Management Association

NIDS National Institute Decontamination Specialists USA

ABRA American Bio Recovery Association

BRADI Bio Recovery and Decontamination Institute (UK)