Inspiring a safer and healthier onshore wind industry.
SafetyOn is the health and safety organisation for the Onshore wind sector.
Providing advice, sharing best industry practice, promoting innovation and creating positive change in the UK and Ireland’s onshore wind industry.
We work to:
- provide health and safety leadership across the onshore wind industry;
- seek participation of companies from across the onshore wind sector and partner with relevant trade organisations, consultancies and others;
- monitor and gather data on the health and safety performance of the sector;
- make use of and ensure effective communication of new and existing good practice and experience both from the UK and internationally;
- seek to share knowledge and good practice with associated sectors, including offshore wind, conventional generation and power networks, in the UK, Ireland and beyond as appropriate
Working through the Energy Institute, SafetyOn has established an open network of safety and health experts, professionals and stakeholders to promote a strong, sustainable and continually improving health and safety culture. Thousands are employed in the UK’s and Ireland's onshore wind industry, and SafetyOn is playing a part in making sure they go home safe.
Chair
Heather Chambers, Head of HSE, Vantage RE
Heather Chambers is the Head of Health, Safety and Environment at Vantage RE, UK and Ireland covering development, construction and operational windfarms. She holds a NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety and has over 12 years' experience in the Renewable Energy Industry. Before joining Vantage RE, Heather worked for BayWa r.e, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and SSE. She has been involved with SafetyOn for 4 years as part of the Technical Advisory Committee before becoming a Board member.
Vice Chair
John Gates, Head of UK Onshore Operations, Vattenfall
John heads up Vattenfall’s UK Onshore Operations team that manages a 380MW wind farm portfolio. John’s wind power industry experience spans more than 20 years and includes both onshore and offshore operations, turbine maintenance and major repairs, wind farm development and construction, turbine installation, commissioning, and wind farm decommissioning. John spent many years leading an independent service provider maintaining a varied fleet of UK onshore wind farms. John is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer. Prior to switching to Renewables he worked in the oil and gas industry.
Leadership Board
Frank Monaghan, Director of HSEQ, Natural Power
Frank began his career as a manufacturing engineer working for several industries and culminating in a role as program manager with a US automotive electronics sub-system supplier. It was in this role that he headed up the reliability engineering laboratory and started taking a keen role in the health safety and environmental aspects of manufacturing and the provision of services. Since then, Frank has held senior HSE roles in the logistics, construction, FMCG and energy sectors, all with leading organisations. Frank has also at various times held positions on a number of industry bodies including Port Skills and Safety, the Energy Networks Association, G+ Global Offshore Wind Health and Safety Organisation and SafetyOn. Frank has also led the G+ Safe by Design program and was chair of the Energy Networks Occupational Health Group.
Anders Falkfjell, Head of Operations, Fred. Olsen Renewables
Anders joined Fred. Olsen Renewables in 2002 and has since managed operation of the Company’s wind farms. Anders has experience from Industrial Operation & Maintenance both as Technical Manager with Elkem and Business Manager with ABB prior to joining Fred. Olsen Renewables.
Anders holds a Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).
Billy Stevenson, CEO, Full Circle
Billy is the CEO of the Full Circle Group. He joined the business in 2021 to drive forward the company’s ambitious growth strategy and plans for international expansion to add to the group’s existing presence across 11 countries.
Billy has considerable commercial and technical experience in wind services, holding leadership roles in the sector since 2010. Before joining Full Circle, he spent five years serving as the Managing Director for Deutsche Windtechnik in the UK, and for six years prior to this in the same role at Enercon Service UK, managing rapid growth in both companies.
Darren Cook, Asset Management Director, Renewable Energy Systems
Darren oversees the RES asset management team, responsible for the UK&I wind, solar and battery storage portfolio, which is >2000MW. Co-ordinating all operational, financial, and operations support teams to work together to achieve our clients objectives, with a passion and focus on HSQE, ESG. operational performance and asset enhancements. A graduate of Sheffield Hallam University, Darren holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Management and has over 18 years industry experience.
Darren Taylor, Head of U.K. & Ireland Onshore Operations at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Siemens Gamesa
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Dean Burgess, Head of Onshore Operations Northern Europe, RWE Renewables
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Dennis Geyermann, Vice President O&M United Kingdom, Continent/UK/SE Europe, Statkraft
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James Robottom, Head of Onshore Wind, RenewableUK
James leads RenewableUK’s policy and advocacy work on onshore wind, with the aim of realising the industry’s ambition of achieving 30GW of onshore wind by 2030. James has spent much of his career looking at energy and climate across communications, public affairs and policy for trade associations and membership bodies.
Joe Mitchell, Operations & Maintenance Director (UK), ScottishPower Renewables
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John Morris, Head of Asset Management - UK, Ventient
John is Head of Asset Management - UK at Ventient Energy, where he is responsible for the management and performance of all operational sites and assets across the UK onshore wind portfolio.
He is passionate about health and safety, having developed an in depth understanding of the Wind Turbine Safety Rules from a practical application standpoint over 14 years in the renewables industry.
John's renewables career started in 2008, when he joined Vestas as a Wind Turbine Technician/AT. Since then, he's held a variety of management roles at Scottish Power Renewables and Greensolver.
Prior to joining the renewables industry, John studied for an HND in Marine Engineering in Glasgow and spent eight years as an Engineering Officer with the Merchant Navy.
Mark Byrne, Managing Director, Enercon Services UK Limited
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Martin Kellerman, Construction Director, OnPath Energy
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Martin Maeso, Technical Director, Energy Institute
Martin Maeso is the Technical Director for the Energy Institute responsible for the EI’s technical programme developing good practice across the energy sector, and for the EI’s publishing activities.
Previously Martin was the Environmental Policy Advisor for the Automobile Association, and before this worked for the Department of the Environment on Air Quality policy. A Chartered Environmentalist, with a degree in Environmental Biology from Liverpool University
Michael Short, Director Projects, Nordex
Michael has over 30 years of experience in the energy industry, including 15 years dedicated to wind energy. His expertise spans service and operations, as well as project management, where he has successfully managed both turnkey and clean sell projects. Throughout his career, Michael has held senior roles across various sectors of the energy industry. He joined Nordex in December 2016, continuing to contribute his extensive knowledge and leadership skills. He is passionate about continuous Health and Safety improvement.
Peter Woodroffe, Region Leader, Onshore Wind, GE
Peter is Region Leader for GE Renewables championing the onshore wind services organisation in UK, Ireland and The Netherlands, leading all commercial, operational and contractual aspects of the business. Peter has been in the energy industry since 2007 working within GE, both in Power and in the onshore wind business respectively.
Ross Fenton, Head of Onshore Wind O&M, SSE Renewables
Ross is Head of Operations and Maintenance for SSE Renewables Onshore Wind operational portfolio. The present SSE Renewables operational portfolio totals over 2 GW of installed capacity with assets operating across Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with plans to expand significantly over the next decade.
Ross joined SSE in 2012 and has held various engineering and operational leadership roles in SSE’s Networks and Renewables businesses. Ross studied in Dundee, holding a BSc in Civil Engineering, and spent 7 years in the construction industry prior to joining SSE.
Stephen Ford, Director Onshore Service UK & Ireland, Vestas
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