Ciaran McAleenan
MPhil CEng MICE
ICE
Construction Health and Safety Registered
Professional Member ASSE
Chartered Member of IOSH
Engineering Partner
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Ciaran McAleenan
MPhil CEng MICE Chartered Member of IOSH
Engineering Partner
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A graduate of and occasional visiting lecturer to Queens University Belfast, Ciaran holds a Masters degree in civil engineering and is qualified as a trainer and a safety practitioner. A Chartered Civil Engineer; he holds corporate membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). Ciaran is also a Professional Member of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE). He is on the Institution of Civil Engineer's Expert Panel for health and safety and a Member of the Northern Ireland Committee of ICE and Chair of the, recently inaugurated NI Region ICE H&S Expert Panel.
Ciaran designed and managed civil engineering projects in the water industry between 1978 and 1990. Since 1990 Ciaran has been extensively involved in the field of safety, health and environmental management, both in training delivery and the development of standards and policy and is working on future developments in this field. He presently is Project Manager on one of Roads Service (NI)’s Strategic Road Improvement Team.
Ciaran’s involvement with Expert Ease International includes software and website development, specific training programs including, confined spaces, noise and vibration, chemicals, construction site safety, design safety and safety at road works/ highway work zones. In addition he writes and presents technical and academic papers at international conferences.
His recent H&S work majored on;
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Provision of advice and support to Directors and Chief Executives in relation to statutory health and safety obligations, including policy and the development of procedures; |
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Membership of UK Technical Project Boards for development of health and safety, environmental and pavement engineering design and maintenance standards; |
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Provision of health, safety and environmental inputs to Business Plans and Annual Reports, including recommending relevant operational targets and reporting on their progress; |
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Developing and monitoring implementation of health and safety standards in the construction procurement process, including advising Clients and Designers on design safety matters; |
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Establishing health and safety competence standards for designers and coordinators and the provision of training and assessments in preparation for inclusion on designers competence register; |
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Leading health and safety compliance audits and monitoring programs and reporting outcomes to Boardroom; |
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Chairing health & safety and environmental committees and the management of working groups/ construction safety project assignments.
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Bachelors Degree (with Honours) - Mathematics & Technology; Open University
Masters Degree - Civil Engineering; Queens University of Belfast
Chartered Civil Engineer (367546)
Member of Institution of Civil Engineers (47190403)
Construction Health and Safety Registered (ICE)
Chartered Health and Safety Practitioner
Chartered Member of Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (32209)
Professional Member of American Society of Safety Engineers (18423)
IPD Certificate in Training & Development
Lead Auditor training - International Register of Certified Auditors (IRCA)
Post Graduate Certificate in Quality Assurance from University of Ulster
IQA - A11 Introduction to Quality Assurance (Credit)
IQA - A12 Principles and Techniques of Quality Management (Distinction)
NEBOSH National General Certificate - Distinction
Investors in People Adviser
D32, D33 & D34 (NVQ Assessor/ verifier)
Present Projects
Ciaran is currently co-editing a new Thomas Telford Limited book "ICE Handbook of Health and Safety in Construction" as well as authoring a number of the chapters.
Ciaran has completed a paper on competence and governance (including the development of OCMITM, along with Philip who will present it at a session of the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering in Calgary, ALBERTA; 2009. Ciaran has been invited to present a peer-reviewed paper on Engineering Competence at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in October 2009.
· IOSH/ Zurich Municipal Supreme Safety Award for the design and introduction of a quality based health and safety management system (1999).
· ISI E-Commerce Interforum Awards – Winner of N. Ireland start-up category for small businesses for the development of a safety web-site designed to make safety management available to all SMEs (2000).
· NI Safety Group/ National Irish Safety Organisation Occupational Safety Awards (2001). Major Award – Category 2 (Northern Ireland, Regional, Non-Industrial).
· ISSA Imhotep Award for Good Innovative Prevention Practices in the Construction Industry (2006).
International Symposium; “Risk Management - "A Failed Paradigm?” at World Safety Congress, Korea June 2008
Institution of Civil Engineers (NI) Masterclass (2008)
Roads Service/ Quarry Products Association H&S Group
4 Nations H&S Group – National Highway Authorities in UK (Co-Founder and First Joint Chair)
Institution of Civil Engineers – Expert Panel on Health and Safety
Institution of Civil Engineers – Northern Ireland Region Committee
Institution of Civil Engineers – Northern Ireland Region Expert Panel on Health and Safety
Build safely Armagh Regional Group
Chapter 8 – Temporary Traffic Management Guidance Technical Project Board
Roads Worker Safety – Annual Conference
Management of Underground Services Protocol
Working Adjacent to Low Voltage Overhead Power Lines
Development of Roads Service’s Operational Safety Controls
Employment National Training Organisation – Review of National Occupational
Standards for H&S
Respirable Silica in Kerbing and Paving Operations - UK
Buildsafe-NI – Past, Present and Future Paper for Construction Industry Forum NI
Designing and Laying Kerbing – Industry Guidance
McAleenan, C. and McAleenan, P. "Managing Safe Entry into Confined Spaces", Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Internet Safety Conference Paper, 1998.
McAleenan, C. and McAleenan, P. "Confined Spaces Working - Towards Zero Fatalities", Expert Ease International, 1999
McAleenan, C. and Orr, D. "Safety - Turning the Event into a Process", submitted to ICE, April 1999.
McAleenan, P. and McAleenan, C. "Confined Spaces Certification and Licensing program", presentation to the American Society of Safety Engineers' Professional Development Conference, Orlando 2000
McAleenan, C. and McAleenan, P, "Dynamic Safety Management in the Construction Industry" presentation to International Safety and Security Association (ISSA), Paris 2001
McAleenan, P. and McAleenan, C. "A Different Approach – Operational Analysis and Control", presented at National Safety Congress' Professional Development Conference, San Diego 2002
McAleenan, C. “Buildsafe for the NI Road Construction Industry”, Roads Workers Safety Conference, Greenmount Agricultural College, 2004
McAleenan, P. and McAleenan, C. "Safety in Design - A Risk Assessment Approach" presented at National Safety Congress' Professional Development Conference, New Orleans 2004
McAleenan, C. and McAleenan, P, "Highway Work Zones - A Safe Method of Working" to be presented at National Safety Congress' Professional Development Conference, New Orleans 2004
McAleenan, C. and McAleenan, P, "Prevention - A Universal Responsibility" presented at World Safety Congress, Orlando 2005
McAleenan, C. and McAleenan, P, “Operation Analysis and Control” – Poster Presentation International Safety and Security Association (ISSA), Salvador Brazil, 2006
McAleenan, C. and McAleenan, P, “Competence: Redefining the Matrix of Authority” presented at Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Anniversary Conference, Cavan Ireland, 2007.
McAleenan, C and McAleenan, P “Competence: A Bold Leap into the Known” presented at World Safety Congress, Korea 2008
McAleenan, P and McAleenan, C “Health & Safety and Corporate Governance” presented at World Safety Congress, Korea 2008
McAleenan, C and McAleenan, P “Competence: Defining the Future” presented at HSENI/ HAS Joint Conference and at IOSH NI Branch, Ireland 2008
(Note: McAleenan, C and McAleenan, P are Korea Occupational Safety and
Health Agency (KOSHA)’s NI representative in the development of an International
H&S information network, as directed by the Seoul Declaration)
Commendations
1. From Permanent Secretary of Department of Environment (NI) for work on the development of the Department’s safety management system.
2. From the Head of HSE NI’s Medical Advisory Service for work done on the management of hand arm vibration syndrome and co-operation with the Good Neighbour scheme.
3. Commendation from Dr David Bellamy (botanist) for production of Roads Service’s Environmental Handbook.