5th Conference on Plant & Process Safety

Andrew Derbyshire is a Technical Partner at ERM and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) specializing in Functional Safety. He is a Registered Functional Safety Engineer (RFSE) and Assessor (RFSA), certified by TÜV Rheinland and active in training for SIS courses. With over 15 years of experience in the Process, Oil & Gas, and High Hazard industries—and an additional 15 years in Military Aerospace—Andrew supports clients across the full safety lifecycle, including independent assessments to IEC 61508, IEC 61511, and IEC 62061. He is also a member of the IEC 61508 Association, The CASS Scheme, InstMC, MSaRS, and MIET. 

Simon is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Registered Functional Safety Engineer (RFSE) and TÜV Rheinland Functional Safety Expert (both SIS and PH&RA) with extensive experience in safety-related applications. His expertise in process and functional safety is supported by a strong background in high-volume manufacturing. He is UK expert representative on the international committees for development and maintenance of safety standards IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 and has worked in the specification, design, management, and assessment of safety-related systems for over 20 years. 

Jaspreet is a Chartered Engineer, principally with a background in Chemical and Process Engineering, she has worked in high risk, high consequence industries for over 15 years covering technical safety and loss prevention areas such as Process Hazard Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, Functional Safety and Process Safety Management Systems. Specialising in the Life Sciences, Jaspreet’s expertise lies in the management and implementation of process safety in biologics and high containment facilities in particular BSL-3 and BSL-4, providing strategic advice and support around governance and integrating the process safety framework within existing management systems with a particular focus on plant design, maintenance and operation. 

Alejandro works at ERM’s Safe and Sustainable Operations Team based in Frankfurt, Germany. He has 11 years of engineering and design experience as process and project engineer in the areas of chemical, power generation, and natural gas processing.  After joining ERM he has led several PSM audits and conducted PHA studies and critical risk assessments for various key clients in different sectors such, consumer goods, manufacturing, chemical, biogas, pharmaceutical and technology. He has also been involved in several vendor, buy-side and refinancing due diligence projects involving PSM assessments as well as technical due diligence for high-hazard industries. Alejandro is a qualified major accident officer and a health and safety specialist. He is an approved project manager at ERM.