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Responsible for local health and safety organisation, creating COSHH reports and risk assessments for the laboratory.Contributed to the operational and physical set up of a new high tech laboratory processing hazardous chemicals and pharmaceutical samples.Devised and implemented full standard operational procedures for all technical teams, analysts and scientists to meet industry health and safety regulations.Created methods for sample preparation and analysis ensuring full safety and regulatory compliance. Developed report writing skills and trained to evaluate the reports of colleagues.Local area safety manager, represented the CMC team at company health and safety meetings.

Trained peers in the analysis of water, soil, and effluent samples using UKAS accredited methods.Held supervisory responsibilities. Oversaw the work of Technicians and Analysts; organising and scheduling analysis, planned and fulfilled observations in the laboratory to ensure staff followed health and safety regulations. Led the analysis of water, soil and sludge samples for UK MAPEP accreditation, resulting in the laboratory achieving the first UK accreditation of this kind. Calibrated and carried out the daily operational control of counting equipment (liquid scintillation; gamma spectrometry; alpha particle spectrometry; Berthold gas flow proportional counters) Analysed, calculated and interpreted results of Alpha & Beta, Tritium and various radioisotopes in preparation of reports for customers. Analysed inter-comparison samples for regulatory bodies such as The Environment Agency, IAEA, MAPEP, Aquacheck and NPL. Demonstrated UKAS accredited methods for internal audits and external UKAS assessors. Carried out regulatory visits to UK nuclear power stations and witnessed co-comparison samples for the Environment Agency. Analysed nuclear power station co-comparison samples using a wide variety of UKAS accredited methods for radioisotopes such as Americium, Plutonium, Uranium, Technetium, Strontium and Polonium. UK Water Industry Research call-out contract responsibilities for analysis of samples in preparation for GCMS and ICP-MS counting equipment.