Keith has 41 years involvement in the drilling and geotechnics industry. He spent his formative years learning the drilling trade ‘the conventional way’ working his way up from Drilling Support to Lead Driller. Since 1984 he has run his own successful drilling company and has an unrivaled reputation for professionalism, quality and innovation. In 2006 he moved into Senior Management and has utilised his expertise and values in his work as an NVQ Assessor and IV and BDA Auditor.Keith has been active member of the BDA since 2000 and has been at the forefront of their publications for Cable Tool Guidance V1 (2006) and V2 (2016) and chaired the team for the Dynamic Sampling guidance. Advised on the development of the NVQ standards for land drilling and the rewriting in 2016 of the NOS( National Occupational Standards) and development of the Land Driller Level 3 NVQ A founding partner and Director of Equipe Training Limited which provides technical and vocational training and continual professional development courses for people entering into or are already within the fields of drilling and geotechnicsIn recent years he has been behind the development the KeyLogbook concept, the SAFERG guarding system and the RhinoCoreBox along with many of Equipes specialist safety and training courses.He has also developed specialist subsea drilling rigs and operators for the offshore Geotechnics industry Qualifications Edexcel level 4 Internal Quality Assurance Assessment (V1) Edexcel level 3 Assessing Candidates using a range of Methods (A1) Approved Assessor for NVQ Levels 1,2 3, in Land Drilling, level 3 Occupational Working